Mid side compression is a tool which is especially useful in mastering but can be applied to any type of audio production where you want to isolate either the mid or stereo sides of your audio and compress them independently of one another. Let’s talk how to use mid side compression in your DAW and […]
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I recently covered bass drum EQ tips which you can use to sculpt and clean up your bass drum’s tone. While it’s certainly not the most dynamic of instruments in your mix, a little bass drum compression can go a long way in smoothing out inconsistencies in the performance to ensure that what is essentially
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Not to be confused with the standard compression you want from your compressor most of the time, upward compression is the much more obscure and somewhat nebulous cousin to downward compression. Let’s talk what is upward compression, more specifically WHEN you’d want to upward compress in your mix, and offer some plugin options (including a
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Compression on vocals is a tightrope as you want to use enough to keep the vocals present but at the same time you don’t want to OVER compress them to squeeze all the life and expression out of them. Here are good compression settings for vocals I rely on as a starting point every time
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Acoustic guitar sits somewhere in the middle of an average mix in terms of its dynamic range relative to other common instruments. It’s certainly not to the level of bass or vocals, but the subtle dynamics of an arpeggiated part (finger or plectrum picked) or simply a track whose dynamics rise and fall from section
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