In-Depth: Opto Compressor

[@bltMovie]

Thank you for the very good tutorials. Keep up the good work! A small request for future videos: let's listen longer to the sound in direct comparison of dry and wet, without talking in the meantime. Thank you!

[@claudiocheulini]

Definitely my fav comp from the A&H collection.. even the one in the GLD was pretty great, this one is clearer/better imho (at least on the dLive, which should be identical btw). Thanks for these video series.. keep ‘em coming, these are great instructional videos too, plus they show what the dLive plugs can achieve.. Thank you Ben and A&H! :)

[@davelongenecker649]

Some bookmarks for me: Opto attributes 0:04 Snare 0:32 Vocals (singing drummer) 6:47 Mixbus 9:34 Overview 11:24

[@nekejkwkwkdjd]

Como

[@krcameron5272]

AT 3:35-3:45 I've noticed the same thing in your other tutorials when you talk about triple-micing the snare... w/o the compressor (basically raw snare group mix) it sounds like a flam on the snare. With your compression the flam sounds like a single strike. So are you sure you don't have a slight pre-amp delay on one of your snare mics?

[@djbassick]

I noticed your percussion levels are almost clipping. Whereas the other gains look like they’re in the line level/-18 dbfs range. Is that typical for drums?

[@djbassick]

How do you handle gain staging with these types of compressors? It’s not as visual as a standard one where you reducing by 6 dB then adding 6 dB, for example