grant richard wrote on Fri, 23 May 2008 20:29 |
dguidry wrote on Fri, 23 May 2008 13:33 | The best advise I ever got regarding the so called 2 bus compression. "Remember that the compressor is working even if the meter is not moving".
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care to explain?
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I don't use any outboard gear at all so my experience with with plug ins only, but the same principal should apply.
I use Smack as a stereo compressor after my eq. I adjust the parameters as follows: ratio 2:1, warm, attack 9.9 (slowest is 10), release .10 (fastest is 0). I adjust input to where the needle barely moves at the loudest point in the song then I back it off ever so slightly so that it never moves. The needle indicates nothing is happening but your ears will hear the compressor working.
My mastering chain in Pro Tools 7.1 is: Multimono dig eq7, multimono Smack, multimono Waves L-16, Benchmark DAC.