Understanding Optical Compression | How to Use LA-2A w/ Fab Dupont
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- The LA-2A compressor/limiter is a long-time favorite of recording engineers and producers. With its warm tube sound and distinctive, fixed attack and release times, this iconic processor-available as in hardware form or software plugin emulation-is great for vocals, bass, and more. It’s easy to use, with only two main controls, so you can add it to many types of sources for instant improvement.
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Could be called "how *not* to use an LA-2A". Great explanation of why not to slam the GR, but devoid of any tips on what to actually shoot for: 3dB, 6dB, 10dB? What would be the sweet spot for this particular bass clip, or say a vocal? Does it differ between the hardware and plugin? They clearly have a different attack, what are the preferred uses of each? The "read more" article goes slightly deeper, but not much.
You must be new to youtube. Everybody is selling courses. Want to know more, buy my course! And hey, it should be that way. If you're good at something, never do it for free.
@@musicproductioncentral4540 Lol. Very not new here. Yeah, lots of people here selling courses and I don't mind that at all. I just would prefer titles of videos to be what's actually in the video. This one is called "How to Use" and there's not one thing in it about how to actually use an LA-2A properly. Just on one specific thing that people do wrong and why its wrong. Bad title, not bad content. Kind of makes me not want to purchase their product if they already didn't give me what they said they were gonna give me.
Try this ua-cam.com/video/xP63zGHg46g/v-deo.html
More of this! Now that idiots like me have access to classic (emulation) gear, we need ppl with experience explaining why we’re not blown away…
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Great video! I will be using my Stam SA-2A+ soon on Bass and Vocals... This helps.
Operating level of UAD LA-2A is -12 dBFS. If the signal is gain staged this way when it hits the plugin, you will immediately notice even 0.5 dB of change when compressor is working.
This was more of a video on how not to use the LA-2A. He said this is what not to do, and never showed how he would use it.
Thanks for the great video!! I usually shoot for 3-6dB of compression with 3A or 2A (for electric bass). I love the analogy of blinding the cell with light - well explained! I also appreciate testing both analogue and digital versions
cheers Ken!!! The digital world is very impressive these days
so you just said nothing / just keep using it ????
but it also removed the dynamic variation of the bass playing. why was that not mentioned?
been saying this for years.. yal don;t listen
I could listen to Fab talk all day, don't know why.
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Sorry but i don t understand a 2,23. What is this switch on the left of the hardware? in and out? Is it the diference bitween limiter and Compressor ?
I often complain that i cannot hear what the compressor is doing. To me, often, it sounds like a broken volume control. You might have just explained why that is.
No because when you lower the volume the energy is gone, with compressor you retain the same energy or even more. Like the universe before the bigbang
@@aldahirvaldez9730 I kind of have no idea what any of this means, but it sounds good?
@@DThompson55 its kind of relative as law of thermodynami cs
You want the sounds in your mix, dense and condense in a pocket. With much energy to vibe
HARDWARE VS PLUGIN:ua-cam.com/video/59vxEKptpcA/v-deo.html
How to use transformers and tubes as percussion instruments or special FX 🤣
UAD plugin is great but hardware all the way.
Good info! A little dab will do ya
I prefer to take a big fat dab and then head into the studio.
@@isomatic Hell yea a BIG dab will do ya!
excellent point. now, that's not only limited to opto compressors, it applies to overcompression in general, the difference for an la-2a being that it's got a seemingly minus infinity threshold. overcompression is a bane of "modern" mixing, in my view, the dryness of the signal being another, the obsession with "everything in your face" - whereas i'm a "nothing in my face, just stay the f*** back" kind of guy - even in audio, you probably wouldn't like it if people sang directly into your ear or yelled an inch away from your face - yet that's what "modern" mixers make you listen to, and guitars that you listen to with your ear pressed against the grill, so on - because reverb and space are "so 80s", whatever that's supposed to mean.