Compression Effects

[Dylan George]

>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


Something that people with fancy compressors get to use that you might want
to think about is multi-band compression.  This is important for final mix
compression, so you don't get every thing else hushed up when the (for
example) kick drum hits.  I completely destroyed a product by using the MIC
input of an old record player/cassette deck, because the mic in (the only
inputs available) had some extreme and un-adjustable compression on it.
This would have been good (maybe) if I was speaking into it and the only
thing that needed to be heard were the words, but in this case, the whole
band disappeared on every other 1/4th note due to the kick.

It is obviously not as extreme in your case, but it still may be something
to think about.  The disadvantage to multi-band compression is the cost, but
it might be possible to do something with multiple compressors attuned to
different registers with multiple side-chained eq's.  But it might also
suck, i've never tried.

To get more on-topic, has anybody here built a multi-band compressor?

Dylan
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