Interesting. Was just mixing my last tracks, also found myself using 2 compressors. Found that Bitwigs own compressor in general had a punchier/louder output than say Initial Audio's IA LA1 compressor, which sounds better in more transparent scenarios. Ithink the term New York compression is abit of horsesh*t as u cannot really compress to much if your only using as small values as required for the mix. Same goes for reverbs & whatnot.
this tutorial was so good!! I love how you single out bits and do before and after comparisons so we can really hear what the compression is doing, kudos Will!!
It's easy to understand the concept of compression but its proper use is often the issue. You made a great job with the explanation using the vocal example! Thanks :)
I was just looking at tutorials for this! Perfect timing.. it’s like I do know what compression is but if someone told me to explain it to them, I wouldn’t be able to. Thanks for the video 🙏🏻🙏🏻
this is the best example of a compressor ive seen! really helped everything sink in for me. the drastic difference in how the vocals sat in the mix really helped me see how necessary compression is
Such a great tutorial WIll. I never knew how much I enjoyed music theory until I watch your breakdown videos. I'm a visual learner so being able to see the sample/waveform while you're explaining it is perfect.
I'm so used to hearing heavily compressed finished productions that the isolated dry vocal with its wide dynamic range sounded a bit weird at first. Ironically, it sounded a bit unnatural when played alongside the piano loop, when it's the compression that is artificial (and absolutely necessary for radio-ready releases). It's really quite amazing how "levelling" the volume of a vocal makes it sound better. Even Frank Sinatra needed a bit of compression on his recordings and he was a master of "natural compression" (moving his mouth further away from the mic when he sang a loud part).
Very nice format and really easy to watch because it’s so organized and dynamic and has a nice flow to it. I find it hard to watch some tutorials that just seem boring and confusing because because of the lack of structure.
Gold this! great explanation and good refresher, I constantly have to remind myself why I compress heavy.... Yah ghat to understand a compressors attack and release and see it and hear it in your mix downs
Yer a Wizard, Will. Thanks for the useful tutorial! I find myself applying these effects without fully understanding what is being done (or why). The visualization was super helpful.
Out of all the Compressor videos this ones really easy to understand. One note I'd like to mention, please don't talk between A/B comparisons. Thanks for the great video!
An excellent presentation as you could hope to find anywhere. Knowing the bpm can so helpful in setting m/s values for attack and release times i.e, 60000 ÷ by bpm = m/s value/s. Running a peak analysis of the file will indicate the loudest peak value. So that can be the threshold setting. Ratio can then be set to taste. Hoping this is generally helpful.
@@EDMTips The ratio knob i.e most important parameter for compression. You explained it in a very effective way. Like to close eyes and start increasing ratio until we find sweet spot , this worked for me.
Informative, concise and super easy to understand. I'm more of a composer than a mixing/mastering engineer. Love your content mate, helped me so much. Thank you so much for this!!! 👍
@@EDMTips PLR/PSR and how these correlate with the LUFS. How come the same LUFS reading is possible with different PLR/PSR readings? I'm still struggling to get this in my head...
the soundgoodizer plugin in fl studio is a compressor ironically, i only learnt that after a few years of learning to use compressors, they are game changers for sound design because you can make the hidden frequencies pop out more, and they are also useful for drums to make them more present in a mix.
That a new studio Will? Im new to this and you explained it perfectly, the difference is subtle but makes it cleaner and pops lovely, just need to practice it now.
You must have heard my submission and thought "I need to do this" lol. I think I submitted it, I've never uploaded a song on to any forum so I think I did it right. Thanks for everything you do for real bro💪🎹🎼
@Christopher Bradley goodluck to you as well man. I sure yours will sound better though I've only been producing for less than a year and have no schooling, no music background, or a mentor. So I'm starting from scratch lol. I just really want the feedback from Will so I can work on it. I can't wait to hear your track man goodluck to you 💪🎹🎼
@Christopher Bradley I appreciate the words of encouragement man. I love making music and the process of making it, it's like a form of meditation for me. Even if I never make one cent from it I'll continue making it till I'm no longer here. Hey, just because you missed an opportunity before doesn't mean you'll never get that chance again. Goodluck man I'll be rooting for you. 💪🎧🎼🎹
Will, this is the best compression tutorial I've ever watched. Is there a separate plugin that shows just the change in the dynamic range to visualise other compressors apart from fabfilter?
@@EDMTips Seriously this video was well done indeed. Many get so confused over threshhold and you smoothed it out for a a lot I'm sure - Cheers and Happy Christmas! Aarrgghh - Pirate Phil
Thanks again for a crystal clear explaination ;) One question, I hear a lot of different opinions about first EQ a sound and then compress and vice versa, what's your idea about that? Thanks in advance :)
Interesting. Was just mixing my last tracks, also found myself using 2 compressors. Found that Bitwigs own compressor in general had a punchier/louder output than say Initial Audio's IA LA1 compressor, which sounds better in more transparent scenarios. Ithink the term New York compression is abit of horsesh*t as u cannot really compress to much if your only using as small values as required for the mix. Same goes for reverbs & whatnot.
New York style is a duplicate parallel of the track slammed too death then edged in along with the original finding a very low dB sweet spot just to give it some subtle girth etc and reverbs best controlled via duplicate chain or sends also, off course all subjective and all depending on the requirement for the material
I understand the entire technical and functional theory around compressors, but what just don't seem to compute with me is all these different kinds of compressors. They all have the same parameters and are based on the same theory (which does make perfect sense to me), yet somehow after using two fabfilter compressors you add a glue compressor and I'm lost at what is different about it. I know what it's supposed to do, but what does it do that the other doesn't? It seems like just another compressor. I've had enough of a headscratcher around the FET, VariMu, Opti and VCA types, which it seems are just hardware designs that get copied in software even though software isn't bound to their restrictions. What mostly confuses me are the classifications compressors get. Glue, Bus, Mastering.... Regular? They all seem the same to me. Usually they come without this classification, so how is one supposed to know? Or is it just the way they're configured? The fact that (especially) DAWs tend to name them (like the glue one you used) would suggest otherwise. Because of this confusion I have accumulated a great amount of different compressors and I just roll the dice on which I'll throw in next.
Don't overthink it. Their main difference is how they process the signal to determine gain reduction. This leads to different characteristics. The name, like glue, master, bus, whatever just describes what they tend do be good for. All compressors do compress but they may sound differently. Just use one you like. Eventually you'll probably understand why you want something else.
@@MefistofyThanks, I had a feeling it probably was something like that. I like to have one or two go-to plugins for every task, but when it comes to compression it's hard to choose. Whenever one seems to do more harm than good I never know whether I'm doing it wrong, using the wrong compressor, or perhaps shouldn't try to compress at all. I just try to avoid it most of the time, but perhaps if I experiment enough it'll click one day.
@@brokko_le3 Don't sweat it. I took maybe a year to understand and hear what compression does. I believe you are on the right track. I over-compressed all of my first songs. Even electronic music needs room to breathe a little.
Thanks Will. This singer has a lot of volume changes in her vocals. Anything that could balance that out more, without going deep into say doing volume automation?
@@TheClearMediaContent Not the answer I was looking for actually... a vocal rider, such as the waves vocal rider is a good volume balancer. My wife's volume changes pretty often, like the singer on this track did and Vocal Rider 2 would also help.
@ShadowSin 🤔 sounds like you already knew the answer to your question. But seriously, all compression really is is like having a little gremlin turn the signal up when it's too quiet and down when it's too loud, placing the signal in a more "compressed" space, and the envelope settings control how quickly those adjustments happen.
@@TheClearMediaContent Always looking for different opinions and answers. Thank you! I approach music and life in different ways and sometimes do the opposite of what everyone else is doing or says - like sometimes having the kick duck the bass. It makes for an interesting sound, albeit, not much of a kick. Agree with you on compression.
Hey mate.. could you teach us how to REMASTER old edm tracks?? There are truly gems waiting a professional treatment for shine again!! Like and subscribe. Thanks in advance mate.
Hope you enjoy this slightly different format! Did you find it useful? Which bits in particular? Please let me know what you think in the comments 😎
Interesting. Was just mixing my last tracks, also found myself using 2 compressors. Found that Bitwigs own compressor in general had a punchier/louder output than say Initial Audio's IA LA1 compressor, which sounds better in more transparent scenarios. Ithink the term New York compression is abit of horsesh*t as u cannot really compress to much if your only using as small values as required for the mix. Same goes for reverbs & whatnot.
Yes-- loved it! The mini listening exercises especially when little chunks were looped
epic and usefull tutorial! thank you!
Your an amazing teacher, you break things down and explain them clearly and I have learnt a lot from your videos, thanks👍🏻
Will, we don't deserve you. Thank you so much for being our teacher. We love you
Greatest explanation ever with the mom yelling! 😅 Thank you!
this is one of the better explanation of a compressor settings on YT...thank you for sharing..
You're welcome, Johnny, I am glad you found this helpful! 🙂
this tutorial was so good!! I love how you single out bits and do before and after comparisons so we can really hear what the compression is doing, kudos Will!!
This is an example of a very detailed yet easy to understand tutorial. GR8 work mate!
Thank you so much, I am glad it was helpful! 🙌🏻
Thank you for watching and supporting the channel :)
I totally love your explanation. I was making music for several years and know nothing about compression until now.
Really glad it helped!
Very useful, I was having a hard time understanding how compression works but you explained it really well
Awesome, glad it was helpful! Anything else in particular you’re struggling with and would like me to cover?
It's easy to understand the concept of compression but its proper use is often the issue. You made a great job with the explanation using the vocal example! Thanks :)
brilliant as always, Will! ABSOLUTELY love your vibe and the mum analogy haha
The best on market. Your tempo with uploading is unbeliveble
Thank you!
I was just looking at tutorials for this! Perfect timing.. it’s like I do know what compression is but if someone told me to explain it to them, I wouldn’t be able to. Thanks for the video 🙏🏻🙏🏻
"Put simply, it narrows the difference between the loudest and softest parts of a track so that it’s more consistent in level." 👍
I don't understand compression but you made it easy to understand.
One of the best compression tutorials out there
Appreciate it! 🙌🙏
Nice way to realize exactly how compression should be used. Thx for that !
this is the best example of a compressor ive seen! really helped everything sink in for me. the drastic difference in how the vocals sat in the mix really helped me see how necessary compression is
Thank you for watching and supporting the channel. Glad it helped!
Such a great tutorial WIll. I never knew how much I enjoyed music theory until I watch your breakdown videos. I'm a visual learner so being able to see the sample/waveform while you're explaining it is perfect.
Thank you so much for this tutorial. It was a massive help, I think I understand what to do now
That's great, I am glad you found this helpful! 🙌🏻
That is a very good analogy, esp for noob like me to understand what Compression is... thank you...
You're welcome! Glad you found it helpful 🙂
I'm so used to hearing heavily compressed finished productions that the isolated dry vocal with its wide dynamic range sounded a bit weird at first. Ironically, it sounded a bit unnatural when played alongside the piano loop, when it's the compression that is artificial (and absolutely necessary for radio-ready releases). It's really quite amazing how "levelling" the volume of a vocal makes it sound better. Even Frank Sinatra needed a bit of compression on his recordings and he was a master of "natural compression" (moving his mouth further away from the mic when he sang a loud part).
This is actually a tip. Imma try this.
Thanks, Will. Great stuff. Careful use of attack and release can also be used to affect the groove of the beat.
Very nice format and really easy to watch because it’s so organized and dynamic and has a nice flow to it. I find it hard to watch some tutorials that just seem boring and confusing because because of the lack of structure.
Gold this! great explanation and good refresher, I constantly have to remind myself why I compress heavy.... Yah ghat to understand a compressors attack and release and see it and hear it in your mix downs
This is a thorough yet concise walkthrough and was super helpful for me. However, I would looooooove a video on multiband compression.
Yer a Wizard, Will.
Thanks for the useful tutorial! I find myself applying these effects without fully understanding what is being done (or why). The visualization was super helpful.
Nice! I am glad you found this helpful!
Anything else in particular you’re struggling with and would like me to cover on the channel?
Superb, easy to follow advice - very much appreciated!!!
You're welcome, glad it was helpful! 🙂🙌🏻
Really good tutorial. I’ll come back to this!
Sure thing, Chris, glad you found it helpful! 🙂🙌🏻
Out of all the Compressor videos this ones really easy to understand. One note I'd like to mention, please don't talk between A/B comparisons. Thanks for the great video!
You're welcome, Shane, glad you found it helpful! 🙌🏻
Thank you very much. It is always great to get into basics as they make the advanced parts from bottom up.
An excellent presentation as you could hope to find anywhere. Knowing the bpm can so helpful in setting m/s values for attack and release times i.e, 60000 ÷ by bpm = m/s value/s. Running a peak analysis of the file will indicate the loudest peak value. So that can be the threshold setting. Ratio can then be set to taste. Hoping this is generally helpful.
Great tip, love it! 🙂
i got the thing for which i came here🔥🔥. Great tutorial with nice example
Stoked to hear that! Thanks for watching and supporting the channel 🙂 Any point in particular you found useful?
@@EDMTips The ratio knob i.e most important parameter for compression. You explained it in a very effective way. Like to close eyes and start increasing ratio until we find sweet spot , this worked for me.
Informative, concise and super easy to understand. I'm more of a composer than a mixing/mastering engineer. Love your content mate, helped me so much. Thank you so much for this!!! 👍
You're welcome, glad you found it helpful! 🙂
This is actually a very, very good explenation - great!
Really glad you liked it! Anything else in particular you’re struggling with and would like me to cover on the channel?
@@EDMTips PLR/PSR and how these correlate with the LUFS. How come the same LUFS reading is possible with different PLR/PSR readings? I'm still struggling to get this in my head...
awesome explanation. This really helped my understanding. Would be great to see how you might use compression differently for drums vs vocals.
As always explaining things in a fantastic way 👌🏻
Thank you for the class!
You're welcome, glad you found it helpful! 🙌🏻
Your videos are absolutely my favorites to learn, thank you so much 💙
You're welcome, glad you found them helpful! 🙂🙌🏻
This was super helpful! Thank you!
You're so welcome! Anything else in particular you’re struggling with?
Great video! I didn’t think you could beat your last compression video but you did! Can you make one on how you’d use it on a group and basses ?
Great tutorial as usual, thanks for sharing amazing knowledge.
Thanks for this! Lots of subtleties involved in compression! Thanks for all your work
my pleasure, glad it was helpful!
the soundgoodizer plugin in fl studio is a compressor ironically, i only learnt that after a few years of learning to use compressors, they are game changers for sound design because you can make the hidden frequencies pop out more, and they are also useful for drums to make them more present in a mix.
Thank you for these secret gems i didnt know before. Subscribed !
You’re welcome! Thank you for watching and supporting the channel 🙌🏻
Excellent video! Congratulations!
Thank you very much, I am glad you liked it! 🙂🙌🏻
That a new studio Will? Im new to this and you explained it perfectly, the difference is subtle but makes it cleaner and pops lovely, just need to practice it now.
Thanks! Very useful and very good explained.👍
Hey Will, awesome work once again, cheers man :)
thanks for sharing your experience. I was able to learn a lot of new things for myself especially in the techno genre. every video is awesome😎
Really good video on compression. Thanks!
Thank you! Glad you liked it! 🙌🏻
You must have heard my submission and thought "I need to do this" lol. I think I submitted it, I've never uploaded a song on to any forum so I think I did it right. Thanks for everything you do for real bro💪🎹🎼
@Christopher Bradley goodluck to you as well man. I sure yours will sound better though I've only been producing for less than a year and have no schooling, no music background, or a mentor. So I'm starting from scratch lol. I just really want the feedback from Will so I can work on it. I can't wait to hear your track man goodluck to you 💪🎹🎼
@Christopher Bradley I appreciate the words of encouragement man. I love making music and the process of making it, it's like a form of meditation for me. Even if I never make one cent from it I'll continue making it till I'm no longer here. Hey, just because you missed an opportunity before doesn't mean you'll never get that chance again. Goodluck man I'll be rooting for you. 💪🎧🎼🎹
These are very helpful videos👍 Thank you!
Will, this is the best compression tutorial I've ever watched. Is there a separate plugin that shows just the change in the dynamic range to visualise other compressors apart from fabfilter?
Really good video. Brilliantly detailed and explained superbly. Nice work yet again 💪
Great tutorial as always Will, all explained nicely! Gonna do some practice now!
Perfectly explained !
Really helpful video thank you
You’re welcome!
Great content as always! You're the man Will!
Very helpful. Thanks for sharing this video. Love your Channel and the way you explain from basics on.
Really glad you liked it! Anything else in particular you’re struggling with?
Great explanation, and with timestamps! Love it!
sweeet video. when do the results for the contest come out btw!
😂😂😂 great analogy, cracked me up!
Thank you, glad you liked it! 🙂🙌🏻
About the serial compression you could use vocal rider or melodyne to make the amplitude more even before using a compressor
Do you have any tips on compression EQs?? When and where to use them??
Check out my video on EQ, you will learn mistakes to avoid :)
just wondering when the competition live stream will be happening? :)
Awsome video, as always!! 💥
thanks man! great explanation
Thank you for your comment! Happy to hear!
Compression is a science in its own 🤣😱😱 Great tutorial as usual Will 🤗 Really helpful with the example with the serial Compression 🙂
Thank you!
You’re welcome!
Found it hard to hear the difference at the Glue Compressor😅 but thank you so much for the explanation!
You're welcome, glad you found it helpful!
Are you suing headphones or monitors?
Brilliant bloke!
Appreciate it! 🙌🙏
@@EDMTips Seriously this video was well done indeed. Many get so confused over threshhold and you smoothed it out for a a lot I'm sure - Cheers and Happy Christmas! Aarrgghh - Pirate Phil
Thank you kiind sir..
Great video! Thank you...
This is gold!! 😎👽
Thank you! Glad it was helpful :)
Thanks again for a crystal clear explaination ;) One question, I hear a lot of different opinions about first EQ a sound and then compress and vice versa, what's your idea about that? Thanks in advance :)
Love the explanation xD
Glad you like them! :)
4:40 lmfao mum banging the broom on the floor, turn that racket down!!!! 🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Really usefull!
Will please do tutorial on the artist Kungs.
Interesting. Was just mixing my last tracks, also found myself using 2 compressors. Found that Bitwigs own compressor in general had a punchier/louder output than say Initial Audio's IA LA1 compressor, which sounds better in more transparent scenarios. Ithink the term New York compression is abit of horsesh*t as u cannot really compress to much if your only using as small values as required for the mix. Same goes for reverbs & whatnot.
New York style is a duplicate parallel of the track slammed too death then edged in along with the original finding a very low dB sweet spot just to give it some subtle girth etc and reverbs best controlled via duplicate chain or sends also, off course all subjective and all depending on the requirement for the material
Love the analogy. LoL🙂
Great video. What’s the mix of Plan 9 by 808 State that’s playing under the intro?
Thanks! It's my new cover version: www.beatport.com/release/plan-9/3753065
@@EDMTips nice! Thanks
How about showing us how to make a track like Kryder/Mark Roma?
Man, I was shanking my mixes by setting the attack threshhold BACKWARDS!
감사합니다~
Wow🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Do your think i should buy Audio Technica headphones ?
I understand the entire technical and functional theory around compressors, but what just don't seem to compute with me is all these different kinds of compressors. They all have the same parameters and are based on the same theory (which does make perfect sense to me), yet somehow after using two fabfilter compressors you add a glue compressor and I'm lost at what is different about it. I know what it's supposed to do, but what does it do that the other doesn't? It seems like just another compressor. I've had enough of a headscratcher around the FET, VariMu, Opti and VCA types, which it seems are just hardware designs that get copied in software even though software isn't bound to their restrictions. What mostly confuses me are the classifications compressors get. Glue, Bus, Mastering.... Regular? They all seem the same to me. Usually they come without this classification, so how is one supposed to know? Or is it just the way they're configured? The fact that (especially) DAWs tend to name them (like the glue one you used) would suggest otherwise. Because of this confusion I have accumulated a great amount of different compressors and I just roll the dice on which I'll throw in next.
Don't overthink it. Their main difference is how they process the signal to determine gain reduction. This leads to different characteristics.
The name, like glue, master, bus, whatever just describes what they tend do be good for. All compressors do compress but they may sound differently. Just use one you like. Eventually you'll probably understand why you want something else.
@@MefistofyThanks, I had a feeling it probably was something like that. I like to have one or two go-to plugins for every task, but when it comes to compression it's hard to choose. Whenever one seems to do more harm than good I never know whether I'm doing it wrong, using the wrong compressor, or perhaps shouldn't try to compress at all. I just try to avoid it most of the time, but perhaps if I experiment enough it'll click one day.
@@brokko_le3 Don't sweat it. I took maybe a year to understand and hear what compression does. I believe you are on the right track. I over-compressed all of my first songs. Even electronic music needs room to breathe a little.
What about input & output gain? And what are your thoughts on just normalizing the audio track?
bleessup!! hey a quick question how come the lines between the words of the vocals are sqiggly
Nice Will :)
Thanks 😁
I’ve only ever seen you use ableton, but the logic compressor is on the thumbnail
The techniques I cover in the video can be applied in any DAW 🙂
Nice!
Hi, if this would be a real mix job, would you work with clip gain automation before you compress? Thanks for a good video!
I've always wondered, isn't putting the dry/wet at 50%, the exact same as halving the ratio?
Thanks Will. This singer has a lot of volume changes in her vocals. Anything that could balance that out more, without going deep into say doing volume automation?
yeah, compression- this is literally what it does, as he explained in this video
@@TheClearMediaContent Not the answer I was looking for actually... a vocal rider, such as the waves vocal rider is a good volume balancer. My wife's volume changes pretty often, like the singer on this track did and Vocal Rider 2 would also help.
@ShadowSin 🤔 sounds like you already knew the answer to your question. But seriously, all compression really is is like having a little gremlin turn the signal up when it's too quiet and down when it's too loud, placing the signal in a more "compressed" space, and the envelope settings control how quickly those adjustments happen.
@@TheClearMediaContent Always looking for different opinions and answers. Thank you! I approach music and life in different ways and sometimes do the opposite of what everyone else is doing or says - like sometimes having the kick duck the bass. It makes for an interesting sound, albeit, not much of a kick. Agree with you on compression.
Hey mate.. could you teach us how to REMASTER old edm tracks?? There are truly gems waiting a professional treatment for shine again!! Like and subscribe. Thanks in advance mate.
Do you tend to put compression before or after othe effects? My experience dictates that it depends but dont know if there's any best practices.
that piano sample reminds me of Mark Knights Remix of Soul Central - Need You Now :D Fucking love that tune
It is a great tune indeed! 🙌🏻
gr8
Thank you, glad you liked it!