How To Use The Ableton Glue Compressor Like A Pro

[@Lavenderhoneylatte]

I just want to say Luke helped me mix my last track and did SO well! Thanks!

[@Broxx909]

Your explanation and demonstration is very insightful! I'll be checking out your other videos.

[@Lucassnydermusic]

Let me know if there is a topic you’d like me to cover :).

[@Broxx909]

@mixingmadesimple the biggest issue i have in general is identifying problems like frequency masking, levels of elements etc. It would be awesome to see a project mixed with bounced audio files, and then have that abelton project file downloadable so people can see in the DAW themselves how everything was achieved and br able to play with it. Just a thought I know that's probably a lot of work.

[@Lucassnydermusic]

@@Broxx909 It's funny because you literally just described what I do in my course lol. I mix and master multiple tracks from start to finish and then have the stem files and project files for students to download so they can practice with them. Book a call with me and I'll tell you more about it: calendly.com/mmsim/mixing-course

[@Lucassnydermusic]

Im coming up with a solution that’s in between my course and free. I’ll keep you updated.

[@Broxx909]

@mixingmadesimple perfect! I currently do have a course that im enrolled in and going through it at a slow pace, but it wasn't covering as much on the mixing as I'd like early on so in general was coming to YT to find more videos on the topic. I'll keep an eye out.

[@richardchant7357]

With the ratios you will find that 2 is high, 4 is mid and 10 is low. If you set the ratio to 4, bring the threshold down, look at the peak volume, change the ratio to 10, the peak volume will become louder, which means that the 10 ratio is low. Also, if you set the ratio to 2, set the threshold down to O, and make sure you sound is peaking at 0 before the compressor is on, the signal will be compressed a lot, even though no threshold has been applied. That’s because when setting the ratio to 2 you are activating a knee that’s built in. So, ratio 2 activates the knee and you need to bring the peak down a lot before compression, ratio 4 is the equivalent to a 2.5 ratio on a standard ableton compressor and ratio 10 is significantly lower.

[@Lucassnydermusic]

I think that’s actually the opposite of how it works but thanks for the comment!

[@DJ_MARIANO]

I also noticed this last night. It seems the ratio works the opposite as intended

[@Lucassnydermusic]

@@DJ_MARIANO yeah I think you guys are right lol. I am looking into this. I think it's more complicated though.

[@GoldenCruiserCrew]

Great explanations thank you!! Regarding drum group compression, do you usually start by compressing and panning each element individually and then add the glue compressor? Or you start with the glue and adjust from there?

[@Lucassnydermusic]

Hey! So I typically don’t do much compression at all to individual drums. If I have to add some more attack to the clap or snare for example, I might use a compressor with a slow attack time like 30 ms or slower which will allow the clap transient to pop through and emphasize it. But generally speaking in edm most sample based drums you can leave alone. I do pan shakers and claps and stuff and then I go to the group and will either compress like I did in the video or I will do parallel compression by putting the glue compressor into an effect rack, adding a chain and then going from there. Edit: I like to work my way up starting on the individual elements. You could start from the group and i guess it would be top down mixing which works too!

[@GoldenCruiserCrew]

@@Lucassnydermusic Thank you so much!!