Compressors: necessary or not?

[The girl next door]

Originally Posted by dnbroxme

Compressors: necessary or not?

I hope your joking ?!
Compressors are very important but hard to understand..
Watch these two Videos to understand more
Its to do with the Reaper compressor but the theory is the same

http://www.cockos.com/wiki/index.php...ReaComp_Basics
http://www.cockos.com/wiki/index.php..._Using_ReaComp

[Drammy]

There was an article on the Radio One news yesterday about a group of Sound Engineers that are trying to get a motion to reduce the amount of compression used on tracks. They claim that it is dangerous to people listening to the music in headphones.

They must be making quite an impact if they made it onto Radio One news...

[XLR8A]

wtf lol imho

[Old Vantaa Man]

Compressors are a godsend and also the devil's work. You just have to know and trust your monitors and mixing environment 100%.
Very difficult to tweak a compressor correctly and not overdo it. I also put all guitars and vocals through a Joe Meek VC3 direct.

[Tomer=Trance]

I don't think hardware compressor are necessary when tracking synths and samplers.
I would prefer a verity of different flavorers in software form.

Uad1 has some great compressors emulated after vintage HW,
Sonalksis over some amazing tools for a great price ,Blue tubes aswell.

[ledge]

Originally Posted by Drammy

There was an article on the Radio One news yesterday about a group of Sound Engineers that are trying to get a motion to reduce the amount of compression used on tracks. They claim that it is dangerous to people listening to the music in headphones.

They must be making quite an impact if they made it onto Radio One news...

They've got a point. Modern mastering seems to be all about making the album as loud as possible which usually involves compressing the living fuck out of everything. Which means that when you are listening through headphones it's constant loud noise. Also means that the albums are fatiguing to listen to and sound pretty shitty.

That is different to using compression when recording though.

[XLR8A]

"Recording and mixing: necessary or not?"

[dnbroxme]

i dont think i asked for a smartass response when i started this thread... did i?




*scrolls up*



mm... nope....

thanks for your useless input, though!

[Khazul]

FFS - chill out!

[ledge]

Originally Posted by dnbroxme

i dont think i asked for a smartass response when i started this thread... did i?
*scrolls up*
mm... nope....
thanks for your useless input, though!

People did answer your query.

Thanks for shitting up the forums though, cuntknuckle.