Disclaimer, i have huge respect for @panorama_mastering and his amazing content here. But as always never blindly trust someone, and this led me to challenge his view on how to set-up a compressor to avoid excessive THD based on the lowest frequency present in a track and the conclusion is disturbing and shocking. Watch till the end and let me know if you could come up with a formula working every time. Thanks for watching and i hope this will help you getting even deeper understanding and control over your compressors.
Thank you for the video! I really love such detailed videos, don’t stop, man. Also, often in compressors, the detector’s release time isn’t taken into account, which also affects the transient and sustain. Therefore, all the calculations made by those who considered this in milliseconds may not make sense, or the detector's release time should also be considered.
@forse.music96 thank you for the kind words. I have quite a lot other topics I wanna cover :) For the coming weeks I'll focus on compression then we'll see :)
Interesting info, been struggling with the ideal settings for bass compression, and some of the compressors i'm using dont have a lookahead in them like kush ones or Omnipressor, Can you take a listen the bass in Yello's track Time Tunnel and let me know what you hear in that.
you can always drop whatever compressor you're using into plugin doctor to see how it behaves (when it starts adding loads of harmonics) I checked yello (could only find a live version). From what i hear there it's mostly a sidechain compressor coming from the kick (and where kick level is not the same at every hit so the amount of sidechain compression is not the same every hit either).
The lookahead of Pro-C has a “pre-ducking” effect on the attack, so be careful when pulling the lookahead too far as you will be getting an unrealistic compression algorithm that cannot be compared to any normal compressor. Yes it has no THD but it also has a pre-transient knee, unlike normal compressors.
i really don't understand what you mean with "pre-transient knee"... lookahead basically "reads" the audio signal erlier to allow compression to start increasing before the actual peak occurs in the processed audio. I actually made a nwe video on the subject here th-cam.com/video/qQLDqMFKyOE/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=IncidenceStudio
hi and thanks for bringing this to my attention. I've to admit having been pretty lazy on the vocal part of this video and not processing anything straight into OBS. I realize people might expect higher attention on this aspect and i'll take it in consideration for the next videos i'm going to shoot ;)
Your vocals still sound natural and fantastic, would this test you are running be the same if fabfilter c2 was in mono ? And is there a specific reason why you have the dB set to 36 next to the dry gain, I noticed that when you change the dB on fabfilter it sounds different? 90 dB sounds different to 72 and so on? Thanks for this 1 of a kind video very professional testing sir 👏
Disclaimer, i have huge respect for @panorama_mastering and his amazing content here. But as always never blindly trust someone, and this led me to challenge his view on how to set-up a compressor to avoid excessive THD based on the lowest frequency present in a track and the conclusion is disturbing and shocking.
Watch till the end and let me know if you could come up with a formula working every time.
Thanks for watching and i hope this will help you getting even deeper understanding and control over your compressors.
You need to account for the attack and decay of the bass part as well, in context
Thank you for the video! I really love such detailed videos, don’t stop, man. Also, often in compressors, the detector’s release time isn’t taken into account, which also affects the transient and sustain. Therefore, all the calculations made by those who considered this in milliseconds may not make sense, or the detector's release time should also be considered.
@forse.music96 thank you for the kind words. I have quite a lot other topics I wanna cover :)
For the coming weeks I'll focus on compression then we'll see :)
Interesting info, been struggling with the ideal settings for bass compression, and some of the compressors i'm using dont have a lookahead in them like kush ones or Omnipressor, Can you take a listen the bass in Yello's track Time Tunnel and let me know what you hear in that.
you can always drop whatever compressor you're using into plugin doctor to see how it behaves (when it starts adding loads of harmonics)
I checked yello (could only find a live version). From what i hear there it's mostly a sidechain compressor coming from the kick (and where kick level is not the same at every hit so the amount of sidechain compression is not the same every hit either).
The lookahead of Pro-C has a “pre-ducking” effect on the attack, so be careful when pulling the lookahead too far as you will be getting an unrealistic compression algorithm that cannot be compared to any normal compressor. Yes it has no THD but it also has a pre-transient knee, unlike normal compressors.
i really don't understand what you mean with "pre-transient knee"...
lookahead basically "reads" the audio signal erlier to allow compression to start increasing before the actual peak occurs in the processed audio.
I actually made a nwe video on the subject here
th-cam.com/video/qQLDqMFKyOE/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=IncidenceStudio
Try out izotope rx mouth declick to help with the clicks and pops when you speak its a great plugin brother
hi and thanks for bringing this to my attention. I've to admit having been pretty lazy on the vocal part of this video and not processing anything straight into OBS. I realize people might expect higher attention on this aspect and i'll take it in consideration for the next videos i'm going to shoot ;)
Your vocals still sound natural and fantastic, would this test you are running be the same if fabfilter c2 was in mono ? And is there a specific reason why you have the dB set to 36 next to the dry gain, I noticed that when you change the dB on fabfilter it sounds different? 90 dB sounds different to 72 and so on? Thanks for this 1 of a kind video very professional testing sir 👏