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Tips on How to Listen for Compression Effects

The Music Telegraph | Text 2019/06/27 [13:02]
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Tips on How to Listen for Compression Effects

The Music Telegraph| 입력 : 2019/06/27 [13:02]

▲ Pro Tools Dyn3 Compressor/Limiter

 



Tips on How to Listen for Compression Effects 

 

Listen before you Compress

Before you start to compress the signals, listen carefully to the dynamics of the uncompressed signals and the sound quality (use the bypass mode on the compressor). As you compress the signals, use the bypass buttons to go back to the uncompressed audio to hear the difference.

 

 

Use Gain Make Up and Watch those Meters

With more and more compression affecting the signals, you will notice the gain reduction LEDs will be lit more frequently. The more LEDs that light, the more gain reduction is taking place.The more often the lights go on or stay on, the more continually the compressor is attenuating the signal. Notice that your headphone level and the VU meters will indicate lower levels. This is because as you compress a signal, it will lose some of its level. To compensate for this gain loss, adjust the output gain control to raise the level (use your ears and the VU meters to do this adjustment). Notice also that will get different effects with different compression ratios.

 

 

Use the Attack and Release Time Adjustments

You may also find that the compressor may not seem to react to the signal very accurately. It may start to compress too late, or not release its compression soon enough, or vice versa. When you are compressing dynamic range you are affecting the ADSR envelope of the sound. There is a great deal of time related information involved in this envelope and you must take this into consideration when you compress a sound. You will have to adjust the attack and release timesso that the compressor acts in a way that follows the shape of the sound's envelope.

 

 

 

 

 

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