Compressors & Compression Masterclass 1 (dynamic range)

[@luuinternational5914]

DAMN! I just too damn impressed when the dude just started drawing the waveform by hand. LEGEND!

[@FaceBing]

For me, these 8 tuts are the most comprehensive explanation on compression I've encountered. Thank you so very much for taking the time to make them.

[@dancetech]

Thanks 👍

[@sonicindustries227]

Another brilliantly clear and concise tutorial from dancetech - can't get enough

[@dancetech]

+sonicindustries cheers mate :)

[@Rootte_zw]

Dance Tech you the best, the way you explain concepts makes everything super easy to learn, three yrs ago I quickly developed my digital reggae production skills because of your content now I'm back again jus enjoying learning more and more.

[@lordhytro]

Outstanding tutorials. Finally a straight answer for all my questions. Now I can actually understand what I am doing when I use compression.

[@Elechouse993]

You are EXPLAINING things AMAZINGLY!!! I like when you leave silence when you speak it makes me thing and understand. Such a Great toturial. Thanks Alot.

[@dancetech]

thanks mate. there's a couple more bits to be added to this tutorial. A quick look at peak & rms compressor types and a few other bits to finish it off.

[@Effectsmen]

Im just whispering and I'm just whispering and loud and loud and loud! What an amazing * clear tutorial. Thank you so much.

[@immortalsatyr]

Gratitude for the lecture, that my college never gave me.

[@dancetech]

"that my college never gave me" ha ha, i heardat!!

[@sonicart1808]

The best explanation of compression & dynamic range I have ever seen or heard... thankyou, a huge well done to you!

[@blacklions]

I really love this guy. Real good explainer. God bless you

[@dancetech]

cheers bruv

[@shashiekunthikumar7980]

wow this tutorial is amazing , your impact on future audio engineers out there is through these videos is beyond massive

[@dancetech]

cheers mate. 👍 did you try my Reverb tutorial? (kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6WVkoGhn9WUb6s) Also there's our videos on EQ & mixing which you might like, it's an ongoing playlist series with more videos still to be added, but there's planty of good stuff in it: (kzbin.info/aero/PLr9cxz51sxbwWOBA2dKim3iFmX3V-zr6g) Also there's more stuff coming this year. I'm planning to start a sound recording foundation college course in video format. It will be only for paying subscribers though cos I need money to support the work, but it will be way cheaper than paying thousands to go to an actual college to learn it.

[@laubsch75]

This compression series is amazing. The visual explanations are well thought out. Perfect for beginners or refreshing the concepts. Thanks!

[@petergross9776]

Great lesson. Your videos feel like a complete lecture on sound engineering.

[@youssefouhdou5462]

this is the best compression tutorial on youtube

[@afterfails4788]

Others have said how amazing your content is. And I can still say it is helping people learn today! Thank you

[@rusmanemwe787]

Damn! Why do I just find this channel yet?? This is so helpfull for me! Thanks a lot for this video! God Bless You!

[@SupeBeatz]

Hands Down the best compression video Ive ever seen. Hands Down, Subscribed!

[@dancetech]

as intended, cos the tutorials out there are so crap ;) cheers mate

[@mightylimbo2810]

Brilliant! Also the song stuck in my head 😂

[@chrisstefanyshyn8343]

Master of Teaching!!!! There is much appreciation here for you!

[@Pl4sm0]

In 10 years im trying I never managed to fully understand how compression works, so my music always has shitty quality and I bass line, I'm starting watching these tutorials now, if at the end I will understand it(finally) I will bring this guy an Oscar prize :D

[@buffplums]

This is extremely useful, makes brilliant sense. I’m a former RF technician and although dealing with audio signals in terms of modulation and probably the closest element was ensuring the maximum modulation depth was ever exceeded. Never really considered it in terms of dynamic range as we would usually work with audio tones but modulation was a different technique but with amplitude modulation compression would be required to a degree otherwise too much power would be in the carrier and not much in the sidebands which results in very poor S/N with weak signals. But starting out in the DJ world and just having built my studio realised after recording a voice over on a sound bed, my voice didn’t sound properly mixed, ie there was too much presence and not enough sound bed despite experimenting with different levels on the sound bed source.

[@dancetech]

you should be ducking the backing when you speak. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHy2kIuMfruUkJI

[@Kundebeats]

Am I the only one who was thinking of Peter Griffin with the loud bit song? Would make a great bit for a family guy episode! Great video by the way, you're great teacher!

[@migueltx11]

Best compressor tutorial I've watched! Thank you!

[@sandeepsugunan7570]

The best audio compression video I've come across so far! Subscribing.

[@jeromejazz4597]

WOW , You and MusicTech help guy are gifted at explaining . Subscribed. Thanks!

[@dancetech]

yeah... except i'm better ;)

[@jeromejazz4597]

AHAHAHAH! You know it xD

[@dancetech]

;) well i had to say that didn't i!

[@jeromejazz4597]

LOL YES SIR YOU DID ! XDDDDD

[@mantravine]

best explanation i've heard on this topic

[@dancetech]

thanks. that was the idea cos i got fed up of seeing terrible compressor tutorials :)

[@markviehweger6830]

I wish you were my instructor all throughout Grade School.

[@markcox5385]

Great stuff (as always). Looking forward to more instalments!

[@dancetech]

+Mark Cox thanks :)

[@pawesowik3138]

Great impression of digital distortion there! ;)

[@ayoubsardi7207]

Good stuff! Thanks for making it easy to understand! Hope you do some other tutorials about Eq ..

[@kevin780313]

thx for the explanation. you are a really good teacher !!

[@adreinvasquez762]

buenisimo, bien explicado, gracias y saludos desde la ciudad de Mèxico.

[@alballoch84]

Very good video on compression, interesting and understandable :)

[@patrickmckenna1166]

I liked it when he did the jazz noises

[@rammohamed8868]

Thanks, very useful and excellent explanation. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@dancetech]

Thanks mate. 👍

[@sophymeas950]

thanks for your detail explanation.

[@consolle2846]

Thank you, Appreciate it !! Finally found an explain I needed ..

[@BarmizzIe]

the audio track at 18' is actually hilarious and should be sampled.

[@The_Absurdistt]

Great explaination. Thumbs up and subscribed.

[@rawstarmusic]

When you bounce you can't go over 0db but when playing it live in the box you can be quite high above 0db without distortion, although it has to go through the converters to get to the headphones. I wish the compressor would show visually what you would get with a line up-down when you alter the threshold.

[@jbarkerhill92]

Why in a DAW is the max volume called 0 dB if the range is ~130db? Also, aren’t decibels relative and also dependent on speakers playing the music? You could record a 60 dB sound and then play it at 90 dB with big speakers

[@urbandelinquent]

Amazing stuff.. thank you again... always helping me improve my musical knowledge... truly inspire me.. cheers and happy new year to you sir..!!

[@dancetech]

Thanks mate :)

[@ashokkeys]

Great lession thank you.

[@Martin-vj7zx]

But here is what confuses me: When I turn the attack of a compressor to 0.01ms it still leave a little part of the transient through, which means there is still a tiny little peak left, so I can not make it louder or? And the dynamic range would be the same because there is still a tiny part of the loudest transient left no?

[@sundamusik]

Revisiting in 2024👍🖖

[@DJzen.]

Thank you🖤🌿 you are a rock

[@worldstar4810]

so is it necessary to use compressor when you use reverb to boost the vocals but also use manual editing to level out the vocals,???

[@dancetech]

No. You CAN do either or both those things in some instances depending what you are doing, or to get a certain reverb sound or depending on what is required to balance a vocal track, but they aren't absolutely required or "necessary". Watch the whole thing i suggest & the other lessons which follow: kzbin.info/aero/PLr9cxz51sxbxm9BVD16p-nl5qWF5zh-2X

[@HighestIntention]

Best explainer!

[@novablessings]

so if you don't have a physical fader like you do, is that called automating when you manually increase and decrease the volume of track

[@dancetech]

if you use mix automation to adjust levels across a part, then yes that would be automation

[@toystoriescatsandplay5969]

what program did you use to draw on the screen like that. I think it's an interesting tool to incorporate into tutorials for visuals.

[@dancetech]

+Toy Stories, Cats, and Play photoshop & a cheap bamboo tablet

[@daynight1714]

very interesting!

[@LouisePlusOne]

Great stuff. Thanks so much. :)

[@bill3837]

I work logic and use compressor . I love his the way he teaches. I like the Rite of Spring quote too. Any body else pick up on that ??

[@dancetech]

the rite of spring quote? what?

[@bill3837]

When you were talking about orchestra music and sang it sounded like the Rite of Spring by Stravinsky. Some part near the middle or end i believe. I produce music too. Would love for you to hear it

[@dancetech]

i was just making it up. never heard that music.

[@annebakker]

Helpful!

[@samadtaheri539]

Hi and thanks alot . I have a question and hope someone will help me. If there is a signal with noise if we reduce dynamic range and than gain the signal that means we are increasing the noise amplitude?

[@dancetech]

yes, the noise floor is usually increased.

[@sonicindustries227]

would kill for a series on Alchemy (just a thought..)

[@dancetech]

+sonicindustries i aint touching that.. it's a nightmare lol

[@Radical-Fantasy]

great vid helped me alot tnx

[@carlosa.chacon985]

Amazing! Now, for demonstration... mmm... I'd use another song xD

[@joecaner]

This is the "least significant bit" This is the *"MOST SIGNIFICANT BIT"* This is the "parity bit" This is the "bridle bit" I thought the video explanation was very well done, actually, but I couldn't help myself...

[@ramazan0124]

i want to ask where do you have the knolegde from so that i know that this isnt just something you have made up?

[@dancetech]

does it sound like i'm making it up?

[@ramazan0124]

dancetech it's not ment as if you are lying it's more for students like me that is searching for material. for example when I write a report and I have to tell where I got the information from, I will reference to this video but then they will ask how trustworthy is he. so if you had like a book where the material is from or scientists to back up the facts evrything will be mutch more trustworthy. your explanation is great and I know that it is true because you show it at the end of the video.

[@dancetech]

well, i think you are safe to reveal your source :) but how well you understand it is another matter. Learning for the pupil is a staged thing, there are 4 stages. 1. Memory (pupil can simply repeat something shown but they don't understand it really) 2. Understanding (pupil starts to understand what they are doing as they repeat a procedure they learn) 3. Application (pupil can apply what they have learned in a wider context) 4. Transfer (student can conceptually theorise about how they can apply what they have learned in contexts they have not been taught or have not tried.

[@ramazan0124]

dancetech well right now I'm writing a large report and at my school they teach us about source reliability, and the most reliable source is a book and I have searched for days for a book that explains this as good as you do but in my perspective it literally impossible. I inderstand the theory and know how to apply it because I need to tell what it had done for society, but when I need to discuss the material with censor and he asks about why you don't have a book instead of that video. to short it all down what I ask is there any book you have learned this from or is it part of your study, and if you put sources in your description it will make learning and using the material mutch easier.

[@dancetech]

"censor"? where are you at college? or is something being lost in translation? also not sure i understand how audio compression has 'done something for society' (?) If your tutor marks correctly then all that matters is you show an understanding of the topic surely?

[@nikolap_civiani]

Dear Sir, I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the videos, very intelligently explained. I would like you to find and add you on Facebook if you don't mind? Kind regards :)

[@dancetech]

Thanks, but I don't use facebook, but you are welcome to post links if you like.

[@nikolap_civiani]

​@@dancetech I already did in one Facebook Mastering Engineers group, where great worldwide Mastering Engineers are. I thought to add you there, but OK.

[@dancetech]

Thanks! You can add links any time, but we just don't have a facebook page.

[@lexomkhwanazi4584]

i can even hear the difference

[@kavinda_srimal]

The example😥 it's really horrible