Compression Effects

[Plinio Barraza]

>    From: Plinio  Barraza <plinio at mail1.orientation.com>
>    Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 12:57:49 US/Eastern
> 
>    When I work in the studio, I have gotten used to 
>    boosting the high frequencies after compressing.  
>    I'm not sure if this is a good aproach though.
> 
> Most instruments put out more high frequency energy when they're
> louder.  A classic example is a guitar or bass string -- it starts
> with a loud complex transient and fades out to something similiar to a
> sine wave.  And drums, saxes, trumpets, pretty much every instrument
> we listen to behaves this way.
> 
> Since a compressor makes loud things softer and soft things louder for
> a living, it's not surprising that compressing a signal would reduce
> the high frequency content averaged out over time.
> 
>   -- Don
> 

Thanks Don:

I had never thought of it this way although now 
that I think about it, it makes perfect sense.  
I guess that ideally one would want to add a dyn
amic EQ that only boosts high frequencies when 
the compressor is attenuating.

Plinio



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