Mixing With Mike Mixing Tip: Creating Low Level Compression Without a Low Level Compressor

[@rafalvarezsevilla]

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[@LYSHEmusic]

There’s also one more option for achieving low level compression that I found. Melda has a free compressor that allows to create a custom compression curve on a graph. We can draw the line to dictate compressor react as we need, for example to make louder everything below the threshold that we drawn. It works. It can be handy if put some time in it. But I’ve got some unexpected loud peaks this way and can’t figure out why. It can be just my case or it can be a bug. If someone will test it, please let me know here, how it went.

[@jamescreekmusic]

Brilliant.

[@mixingwithmike]

Thanks James!

[@TallerdelSebaRehbein]

Great!! Thanks for share

[@mixingwithmike]

Cheers!

[@LYSHEmusic]

Interesting video as always. I also was looking for a long time trying to find compressor that can do actual low level compression, when everything below the threshold starts sounds louder. And I find it! I’m struggling to remember the name of the plugin. It is red and there’s “red” in the name, I think. Also I’m not sure if it’s working on Mac. What is special about that compressor is that it has two ratios - one is controlling amount of compression above the threshold and other ratio is controlling amount of compression below the threshold. Just like gate, that can act backwards in terms of dynamic. I hope I’ll remember to write here the name of the plugin. It’s old one and it’s free.

[@LittleStoneDogs]

Hi Mike, just found your channel a couple of days ago. Some cool tricks you're showing. Could one use a multi-band compressor to accomplish the same thing? just leave the low and mid frequencies untouched and then set the high band of the compressor to work? if so would there be any benefits? drawbacks? Would it be better to set up as a parallel channel and blend to taste or use the multi-band as an insert? I am guessing one would have more freedom if this was done as parallel and blend....