The Magic of the FAIRCHILD Compressor - All You Need to Know
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The Magic of the FAIRCHILD Compressor- How to use it
The Fairchild compressor is a vintage style compressor known for its unique sound and silky smooth tone.
In this video, I’ll show exactly how to and when to use it and give you my best tricks for getting the best sound out if it as quickly as possible so you can start using it on your tracks right away!
Let me know what you think of this compressor and this video.
More questions?
Other types of compressors you’d like to see a video on?
Leave a comment below!
Timestamps
0:00 Intro
1:15 My favorite version of the Fairchild
2:05 Overview of parameters
2:14 Metering
2:35 The most important knobs of all
2:53 Threshold explained simply
3:15 How to use the Fairchild for tone
3:20 Using it on drums
5:15 Headroom explained
6:03 Vari-Mu compression explained
6:40 Time constant explained
9:15 Sidechain filter
10:10 Mix knob
10:50 Link feature
11:45 AGC knob
12:10 DC threshold
12:45 Using the Fairchild as a limiter
13:25 Calibration settings
14:10 Using it on vocals
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fire video!!!! Thanks for sharing Chris!!!! Could you do a video on the UAD Shadow Hills mastering compressor? Thanks.
UA is good. Just saying, the IK Multimedia T-RackS 5 bundle has a Dyna-Mu (Vari-mu) and Fairchild emulations that are very good and I feel underrated among the youtubers.
I recently tried the IK models. They were great.
thanks for making it simple
Of course!
I've discovered I really like vari-mu compressors. In addition to the UA version of the Fairchild, I also love the Manley Vari Mu and the Kush AR-1. The latter goes on my mix bus on every mix now.
I always learn a lot from you Chris. Thanks for sharing your knowledge wit us. We really appreciate you.
I'm loving this series Chris. Top notch content! You're an excellent teacher. Much respect! ✌️😎 - Cole Mize
Glad you enjoy it! More to come :-)
This video series has been so helpful. Cheers mate. Thank you.
That's great! Glad to hear it!
Your videos are so nice and are very understand very clear
God bless you so much
This is my go to for use on my drum room bus. I generally have two stereo rooms and a mono I sum to that bus. Slap this on, an eq and some saturation -- lovely.
Great video! Clear and concise. Thank you 👊🏽
Glad it was helpful!
Merci pour la présentation détaillée. Belle job, Chris!
Merci beaucoup!
awesome video thanks, just got this. You explained everything plainly so i could easily understand, cheers 😁
That's great! Thank you!
Great series about different compressors, Chris!
You're welcome, Jorge!
Like the fairchild you have a smooth and silky way to explain things👍😎
Nicely relaxed way to teach, so people are listening.Very good video!
If you want suggestions, I would like to know how (if) you use the UAD" Vertigo Sound VSM-3 Mix satellite".
Thank you for all the effort you put into your lessons!
Have a good time✌️
You, sir, are a great teacher expert...
Thank you!
Good video ! Great !
Thanks
Great😊thx🙏🏻
Thank you for sharing
My pleasure
When moving the “Headroom” adjustment screw to the right you are *lowering* the amount of headroom, and thus making the compressor more reactive because of the lack of internal headroom. Additionally, this will increase the onset of distortion.
Definitely a nice piece of magic, I like it on acoustic guitar but honestly an api eq does a great job too for me 😊
API Eq's are great!
@@mixdownonline Yepp, on some tracks they work really well 👌🏼
I also like the Pulsar W495 a lot 😉
And the Helios and Dbx160 so many flavors 🎆
yes you're right,..try it kids,...you'll be immediately a star
dear Chris,
kindly requesting your interesting review for the API series.
let's include the whole set, both the EQs and the 2500 compressor.
many thanks!
Thanks for this demo. I recently got the this UA version as well as the Waves Puigchild. I'm still learning them but they definitely have a sound. I got the Tone Empire version a while ago but wasn't really satisfied with it....seemed to lose bottom end and break up to easily?
The Fairchild just works very differently from the usual buss comps I go for. I did get some nice results when really slamming a test voc. I much prefer it to something like a dbx160 or even a Distressor. I look forward to spending more time with it.
Awesome, thanks for your comment :-)
UAD Compressor suggestion for review - 175 - B/176
Shadow Hills please...:)
What drum loop was this? Sounds incredible.
Can you make a video on how to mixing and master a podcast or a voice over...?
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It adds so much high end. Is this typical?
I'm curious about your take on the Manley Variable Mu compressor (Pulsar Audio does it) and the dbx ones (a bunch of companies have tackled either the 160 or 165) =]
Funny enough, I never worked with it yet...Maybe I should!
The dbx160 is a must have 👌🏼
Lat vert comes from the groove in a record.
well it sounds louder than bypassed so it should be better right
Nop, nothing to do with how loud it sounds or not, it's a matter of knowing how to listen to compression th-cam.com/video/6QR3fAIWsv0/w-d-xo.html :-)
Only use for mixbus glue
Love the French Flag when you give us a pallalell
😅
I have the Fairchilds, LA-2A and 1176 and to me they all sound the same. My ears can't identify "silky" or "creamy". What are you hearing that I'm missing?
Don’t feel bad, my friend, because I, and many others, are right there with you. We live in an age of splitting hairs when it comes to audio processing, and I honestly believe those claiming to hear these nuances are imagining them or hearing something so ridiculously vague that it’s not going to make any difference whatsoever in the final mix. I fully expect, at some point, to hear one of these hypersensitive gurus claim that the most critical ingredient to a great mix is the color of shirt you’re wearing.
Yeah I think a lot of it has to do with the source it’s compressing. I do think there are a few little differences you can hear from compressor to compressor. My take is that the big differences are how the attack and release feel and behave from compressor to compressor. A lot more so than tone. Although, as I said, there are definitely small tonal characteristics of each.
The differences can be subtle depending on the instrument, sometimes you just find a compressor that's the perfect match. The Fairchild works great on groups for me, glueing everything together without covering up plus adding some warmth. It's just trial and error
I feel like i should buy you coffee ! I appreciate everything you do! whats your cashapp Chris?
Blue Tubes?
Tone empire fire child is 😘🤗🤓
Definately!
Le petit drapeau qui apparait! 😂
Y fallait 😅
I see you watched the White Sea Studio video on the Fairchild and made your pastiche of that video. BTW 670 wasn't a "stereo version of the 660" - the 670 has a different circuit design. They are close cousins.
I've mixed several albums using the Fairchild, so I know it pretty well, but yes, I do watch other videos, and read a bunch of stuff on this, and made my take on it.. It's actually the fourth video out of my Vintage type plugins series. th-cam.com/play/PLHfS_0liDLIN4OKB-BSxF5GUI5DB53VLC.html :-)
You're right about the different circuit, but I like to make my videos simple, so like I said in the video, they sound just a bit different, and one has stereo controls, and the other not, I think that's all we need to know, the rest is not important IMO, what's important is how to be able to use it, and I hope I was able to demonstrate that in this video.
Thanks for watching, Steve :-)
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Because my hair is a mess 😉
@@mixdownonline Keep in mind, this might contribute to baldness.
Your vid is too busy, i couldnt watch, good bye.