all the way from start I can feel it in my heart like... hey what's
going on out there I'm Sean Divine hope you all are doing well today I've got a
new tutorial where we're gonna take a look at a technique that will maximize
the dynamics of your mixes but also to enhance the subtleties and to bring up
the perceived loudness so let's go ahead and dive in here I'm gonna play back
this track this is a song called Wilderness by Danielle Apicella I'll put
a link below if you want to check it out
this darkness consumes my eyes...
Why can't I see you when I've been hiding... alright so the processing
happening here I have a preset loaded up from my divine mastering chains pack
with studio rack and today we're going to be looking at one plug-in of
particular interest which is Waves MV2 now this has two controls on it low
level and high level this represents low level compression and high level
compression so what is the difference there what is low level compression
doing differently all it is is the opposite of traditional compression in
that whenever we set this threshold it's going to say okay well whatever is below
this threshold we're going to apply compression to right so versus
traditional compression anything above that threshold it's going to compress so
also unique to MV2 is that when this compression starts to happen we have an
auto make up gain so we're not bringing the level down with a compressed signal
we're actually bringing it up we're getting more perceived loudness and more
actual level out of our mix we're gonna bring up the low level compression and I
want you to listen closely to what happens you're gonna hear subtleties in
the production some of the pads the percussion as well as the vocals the
vocal effects some of the reverbs and delays we're going to start to get more
of those details being brought up
like I'm hypnotized this darkness consumes my eyes...
so now we're gonna slowly bring down the high-level compression I'm not gonna do
a ton with this because we're already pretty much at commercial levels but I'm
gonna pull this down and get just a bit more loudness feels like I'm hypnotized
this darkness consumes my eyes
now let's play it back and hear with both the low level and
high level compression this is disabled and then I'll enable it
this is a very quick and easy technique to bring out the
details of your mix but also bring up the perceived loudness utilizing both
low level compression and high level compression in tandem be careful about
how much of this you are applying it's similar to a limiter in that you know if
you go above the sweet spot then you're gonna start to damage the dynamics -
just be cautious about that if you learned anything in the video please like
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