Confused By Compression? Watch This 4-Step Workflow

[@AttawayAudio]

That's my FAVORITE book on getting the FEELING of mixing tools. Great video!

[@MichaelCurtisAudio]

Isn't it great? Thanks a ton, James.

[@angrybuzzy]

The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook by Bobby Owsinski?

[@johannesfalk8146]

Great video Mike! Thoughts if you ever decide to do a part two: 1 Since the plug in you used has the auto-makeup gain function we sort of skipped a step that most people would have to think about, which is how to manage the gain reduction. P2 could touch on this, whether to use make up gain, gaining the signal hot to begin with, or mixing the channel louder. Pros and cons of each. 2 Compressing drums is a bit of a special case since it has those super strong initial transients. I find that I have to think a bit differently when compressing a vocal, string or other sound without super clear transient. Overall great video, thanks for talking clearly about sound!

[@Clkysor]

This was awesome, I love the system side of things too but this was a good change and from a live sound perspective. 👍🏻👍🏻 can’t wait for more

[@EricMartinPercussion]

Nice job, Michael. Very informative!

[@MichaelCurtisAudio]

Thanks, Eric! I'm not sure if you remember this, but when I was helping heading up the sound system for the pit I remember you showing me the yellow "one knob" compressor on the analog board we were using to mix down the pit for the field.

[@EricMartinPercussion]

@@MichaelCurtisAudio I’m sure I had just found out what it did myself!

[@micahmuth4256]

It's all about the Relatio! 😉 awesome vid. Great explanation with examples.

[@MichaelCurtisAudio]

Thank you very much!

[@broadcastedtube]

Great help, thanks

[@naomispirit-evokingemotion2267]

how should the PEQ compressor be on speakers? in preventing it from blowing and still maintaining good sound.

[@OtherTheDave]

1:08 Sounds cool!

[@MichaelCurtisAudio]

Thanks!

[@isaacokunola9073]

Thanks

[@danielfmyers]

Cue guitars and helicopters

[@dustinyager5752]

Don't bring me down.

[@MichaelCurtisAudio]

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[@dustinyager5752]

Electric Light Orchestra. That's what the drum loop sounds like when it's squished.@@MichaelCurtisAudio

[@serhii-ratz]

Modern sound is overcompressed…