Compression & Expanding
From Melda Production
Compressors and other dynamic effects are arguably some of the hardest processes to understand. If you are confused by the subject, then this tutorial should help you.
We attempt to demystify the process and explain why these tools are an essential part of today’s music production techniques
- Introduction
- Threshold & ratio
- Signal level – attack time & release time
- Additional parameters
- Side-chain
- Look-ahead
- Peak/RMS
- Knee
- Practical usage
- Scenario 1 – Compressing a song
- Scenario 2 – Compressing a snare drum
- Attack time tweaking
- Release time tweaking
- Advanced parameters & techniques
- Dry/wet and parallel compression
- Range and limited compression
- Automatic release modes
- Temporary gain
- Custom processing graphs
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