How to set a digital compressor - perfect compression every time!
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
- In this video I will take you through how to get a great sounding compressor every time. In this video we will look at how a compressor effects the tone of the sound and how this applies to the ADSR envelope.
0:00 - intro
2:03 - How to set a compressor
3:23 - What is a compressor? How does a compressor work?
6:16 - Understanding compressor settings (Attack, Release, ratio, input, gain reduction, output, threshold and gain)
7:54 - How to set compressor gain
10:58 - How to set attack on a compressor
15:45 - What does the knee do on a compressor?
16:51 - How to set a release on a compressor
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Awesome break down. Thanks for making the use of compression so understandable.
@@eddieoke07003 no problem 👍🏻
1 request sir.. can u please make a proper video describing the actual difference between a GAIN & TRIM on a digital mixer.. please... Will be waiting. Thanx a tonn🌹🌹😇🥂🙏
Basically gain is adjusting the pre amp to give you correct level into your console. Trim is a control that doesn’t control the pre amp and allows you to adjust level. Normally used to pull down a line level source that’s too hot into the console
Whooooo... Great video indeed... Have seen many videos related to compressor.. bt this one is the best i should say.. thank u sooo very much for the video sir... Wil be eagerly waiting for some more videos like these.. thnx a lottt..
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Wow this made total sense. Thanks so much for taking the time to walk us through compression it was so easy to follow, also loved seeing what you were talking about on the mixing console at the same time - it always helps to get a visual. I am going through your channel to learn more about mixers and sound engineering and think the content and quality of the videos and information here are excellent. Keep up the good work 👌
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Such good stuff man ❤
Glad you enjoyed it
It's good to understand ADSR as it's a handy way to think of the different elements in your arrangements. But the compressor does not see those events as individual notes usually. It sees signals that are either above or below the threshold and thinking of how it operates in direct reference to an ADSR envelope could stand in the way of your understanding the compressor completely. A single snare hit, while being fairly straight forward to explain as an ADSR event, is a complex waveform that will have a compressor attacking and releasing several times through the duration of it's ADSR. (If you set your threshold *just so*.)
That's not to say that compression doesn't affect the ADSR of a note. It truly does. But it does so in a somewhat round about way. That's why it's important, especially for a discussion like this, to understand the ballistics of a compressor. Your statement at 10:58 doesn't really map to the way a compressor works. The compressor starts compressing as soon as it passes the threshold. The attack time dictates how long it takes to reach full(ish) compression after passing the threshold - not how long it takes for the compressor to activate, or start compressing. (I say "ish" because every compressor is a little different.) Release works pretty much the opposite. And if the needle's moving the compressor is cycling between attack and release. Which means, the needle probably doesn't move fast enough to really show exactly what the compressor is doing with fast settings and our eyes couldn't track that anyway.
Thanks for this great lesson can you plz let me knw how to decide were to place threshold on compresor
Yeah, might do some more compressor videos at some point
I have a question ? This is from I'm experiencing everyday at work. Is it normal to put a compressor at a microphone lines and put another one on PA ?? Like compressor on compressor. This is not me. My sound guy at work. It's Live music BTW. Thank you
Yep, very normal to do this. Lots of times you would choose to feed one compressor into another