Reason 10: Compression

[@connormchugh8456]

Short, sweet, and effective, needed to learn this bad!

[@dimitrisivanov9285]

Thank you.

[@robertgarza466]

Solid info and walk-through. Thanks for the video.

[@Dynamic_Music_Tutorials]

Youre welcome, glad it was helpful!

[@palmtemple]

Thanks for this. Most videos use the entire track sound. This was nice and simple. Would this apply to vocals as well.

[@Dynamic_Music_Tutorials]

OMM yes it would. Generally for vocals you want to try and preserve dynamics to a certain degree (ie keep the soft parts soft and loud parts loud) for a more natural sounding performance, so subtle compression is often better. There are techniques you can employ however to heavily compress in order to bring a vocal thats sitting in the back to the front of a mix while maintaining dynamics. Hope this helps!

[@Alien-dv2xr]

stupid question here, am i applying more or less compression if i turn the threshold completely to the left ??

[@Dynamic_Music_Tutorials]

Alien51 You would be applying more. The lower the threshold, the less amount of "volume" it takes to trigger the compressor. The green meter beside the ratio will show you how much the compressor is reducing the volume (in decibels) while its on. Hope that helps!