hey guys welcome back to another episode of loud I'm your host weave your beats
today I'll be explaining to you guys compression what is it what do we do
with it and some other basic concepts let's go
compression is often used to make music sound louder
well actually increasing its peak amplitude compression is the process of
lessening the dynamic range between the loudest and softest parts in the audio
signal this is done by boosting the quiet signals and lowering the high ones
the controls are given the setup of compressor are your threshold ratio
attack release and your makeup game the threshold is used to set what loudness
will trigger the compression the ratio is how much compression will be done
it's done on a ratio basis and this could be anywhere from 1 to infinity the
attack from these lets you change how long the compression takes to set in and
how long it takes for it to come off and the makeup gain is used to make up gain
makeup the game that you lost there are also some compressors that
have auto makeup gain which is also a nice feature quite often they are not
completely accurate though compression is used to make music sound louder
without actually increasing the peak amplitude now if we sit here and really
think about that sentence it tells you almost everything you need to know about
compression it compresses the peaks and gives you more room so if you imagine
those Peaks going down and we should it be able to imagine yourself having more
room there it can also be used to automatically tame amplitude but it's
much better to do this manually it can be used as a sidechain to create room
for other instruments compression can also be used in parallel to make things
sound louder and more aggressive parallel means sending something on a
return so having your compression on a return and then sending signal to it you
can beef up the sound of your drums without actually losing any peaks that's
the true beauty of parallel compression you can use parallel compression other
things as well there are also some other tools that are very related to
compressors I'll try to briefly explain these tools include limiters maximizers
and multiband compression the difference between a compressor and limiter is only
in the compression ratio that is used the compressor lets to control how much
compression ratio you can use what a limiter is stuck at 10 limiters intended
to limit the maximum level the compressor is used for less drastic and
more creative control type situations the limiter is meant to completely stop
sound and a compressor is meant to shape it more so
maximizer is technically very similar to a limiter it stops audio from pass a
certain threshold but it also makes up for the difference
dusty being named a Maximizer because it maximizes the loudness mini maximizes
also have their own proprietary technology to take care of specific
frequencies and to keep your mix sounding the same all the way through to
the final stages multiband compressor splits up the audio into different bands
you can set the frequencies of the bands and each band has its own compressor and
you can use them to individually control compressors on each band allowing you to
get a variety of results are quite different from a regular compressor
beware of multiband compression there is no easier way to destroy your sound than
to put it through a multiband compressor and not know how to set it properly you
listen very carefully and you need to
just not suck just don't suck okay that's it for this video hopefully it
clears up some things about compressors for you guys a lot of people have been
asking me about it I figured I explain you guys compressors the brothers and
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