Mixing Stuff: Dad Teaches Compression!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- In this video I do my best to teach what compression is, how it is used, and why certain settings are used. I'm teaching how I learned compression to hopefully help some of the people out there who, like I was when I first started mixing, are confused and don't really understand compression and how it's used.
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This is FANTASTIC information. I'll be coming back to this video many times in the future I'm sure!
If there's anything you'd like me to cover let me know. Or you know, drive on over to my house and I can show you. lol!
Apologies for how long this video was. Is there anything I didn't cover here that you'd like to see? What's your favorite compressor?
Less. Dad. Jokes. 😆😆😆😆😆
@@WeNeedMorePeps More dad jokes, check!
Long video, yes, but a nice one. More jokes, yes! :) You covered a lot, and left out a lot. Compressors and compression methods are a topic you could talk a week or more about... ;)
@@johnmatthews8435 thanks! I wanted to make sure I was clear that I probably don't understand compression anywhere near the level of most audio engineers, but I wanted to teach it how I was taught and how I use it. Even with that I had to cut a few things out just to keep it at 45 mins!
I like your approach, and it helps clarifying a bit how to use this complex effect (at least for us beginners😆) , thanks for sharing!
Thanks! Yeah that's what helped me when I was first learning, and I realized I haven't really been going into the "why" in my videos.
Really good tutorial, Dad. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for sharing, very good way to explain it
And it would be great if you can do some kind of more "specific" uses of Compression, at different stages/channels, etc.
More content, more Jokes, more learning for us!
...just 11 more to reach your 2022 target, just a bit more!
Good ideas, I'll add them to the list!
I really like this double compression on bass !
Such is called serial compression. (Just in case you want to research yourself)
I can't remember where I first saw this trick, maybe Musician on a Mission. I tried it out and was just blown away at how easy it makes the bass sit in the mix. Soloed it's almost too much compression but in the mix it just sits really nicely.
love the way you explain thing for " mixing dummies" like me😁
Thank you! I was there once not all that long ago (~10 years) so I know what it's like!
11:56 Low-pass and high-pass filters limit the range of frequencies to which the detector is sensitive, not the range of frequencies being compressed.
They affect the _detection_ circuit, *not* the _compression_ circuit. The entire signal gets compressed regardless of how the filters are set.
For example you may want the compressor to react less to low frequencies in which case you'd use the high-pass filter to roll off the low end of the signal feeding the detector.
Thanks for the comment. I was going based on what the manual said in the ReaPlugs version, which should be the same as the one in the DAW: Specifies the highest frequency used to control the compressor
(frequencies above this are ignored for the detection). For example, a
low pass setting of 6kHz on a vocal track would ensure that the
compressor is not triggered on a loud sibilance.
@@HiTH-camImDad The manual is correct but your explanation is incorrect. If you listen back you can hear yourself say things like,
12:00 _"if you put the low-pass at 6k or 5k then the sibilance will not be compressed",_ and
12:09 _"if you put the high-pass at like 100 then things like plosives... thumps... *those will not be compressed*"._
This is is false. When compression is triggered, the *entire* signal gets compressed (except in the case of a multi-band compressor).
A correct version of those two statements might be:
_"Setting the low-pass filter to 5k makes the detector insensitive to high frequencies and sibilance won't trigger compression"_ and
_"Setting the high-pass filter to 150Hz will make the detector insensitive to low frequencies and so thumps and rumbles will not trigger compression"._
I'm not being pedantic, here. The detector circuit and the compressor circuit are two different things. One reduces signal level and the other decides when to do so.
It's important to understand the distinction.
Hey! My plugins are still in there! :) Thank you! nice video! (I like blue...) Hihi!
I mean what better reason for liking a plugin! haha...so question for you John, is the NC76B modeled after the "bluey" 1176 and the regular modeled after the black?