Recording Handbook - Hol.gr
Recording Handbook - Hol.gr
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can save some money by going with a mono compressor. Stereo is all<br />
well and good but for small 4-tracks it has no use. That is if you<br />
don't mind compressing down to track and not on mix down. Stereo is<br />
really only for live gigs and when you have a multi-track system with<br />
several AUX sends so that you can patch each channel into a mix.<br />
Q2.3.2 Should I use compression on drums? Vocals? Bass?<br />
ertrinid@girtab.usc.edu (Elson R. Trinidad) writes:<br />
If you mic up your kit and route it through a separate mixer before<br />
going to your 4-track, put the snare through a compressor (the kick,<br />
too, but through a separate compressor) and you'll have a more<br />
"professional" sound. But never try to compress the entire drum mix,<br />
especially if you use cymbals a lot - there will be a lot of<br />
unnatural-sounding "pumping and breathing".<br />
brianb@scorpion.iii.net (Marc?) writes:<br />
It's <strong>gr</strong>eat for snares and kicks. (fattens up the kick alot) But I find<br />
that it kills rides and hihats. To really compress drums you need to<br />
have a system that can compress some, but not all.<br />
Also, [noise] gates are needed to really make it sound right.<br />
You need different amounts of compresson on different things. That<br />
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