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Shaping Tone To Taste Using Compressor

The Music Telegraph | Text 2023/04/25 [13:15]
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Shaping Tone To Taste Using Compressor

The Music Telegraph| 입력 : 2023/04/25 [13:15]

 

▲ a multi-band compressor

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Shaping Tone To Taste Using Compressor

 

Acoustic instruments, electric instruments, synthesizers, sound modules, and human voices all have different dynamics ranges. When they are put together in the service of making a record, there must be some way of getting the diffrent elements to work together. Compressors are useful processors that help control dynamic range and in so doing, allow the creative engineer/producer to put together very different audio elements into a cohesive whole.

 

A compressor can alter the level of a signal at controllable rates and ratios. It can reduce the attack of a sound quickly or slowly, affect the release quickly or slowly, and alter the overall level change at varying rates. By altering the signal ADSR, you can fatten, thin, sharpen, or dull a sound, depending on your mix needs. Sometimes, by deliberately reshaping a sound's ADSR (using the attack and release controls), you can make it work better in a mix. In addition, all of these characteristics can done over different frequency ranges (with multi-band compressors). What this means to you, the creative person, is the ability to use the compressor as a powerful sound-shaping tool.

 

 

 

 

 

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