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anonymous 3 January 2011

From first mix through to final master, there are several places where compression might appear. Looking at the T -Racks S3 panel view, I was startled to see 12 plugin slots, with 2 X4 in parallel, followed by 4 more, which is a heck of lot of potential places to stick a plug- in, in a compressor/limiter laden program like T- Racks S3.

This has me wondering what the average number of compression stages there might be in the recordings of fellow recording.org members (mix and master included) and what you might think is the ultimate limit on the number of compression stages.

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AToE Thu, 01/06/2011 - 09:38

IIRs, post: 360595 wrote: This is the best advice IMO. Not just for compression, but for everything you do while mixing.

eg: lets say you are compressing a kick drum. You want to add some extra punch to the sound, but you also want to tame a few over-enthusiastic hits in places.

The chances are that your punchy (slow attack) compressor setting will make the occasional too-loud hits much worse. But setting a faster attack time to tame those peaks will kill the punch. Now its obvious that you need two compression stages: one with a higher threshold and fast attack to catch the occasional peak, and another with a lower threshold and a slower attack to add an overall punchiness to the whole part.

This is what I've been doing, I'll have to play around with which comp is first in the chain to see which I prefer.

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