Hello, I'm pretty amateur at this whole recording business and it shows with my limited equipment I'm mostly interested in what people think is the order of importance of drum compression on 'rock' drums (not really for normal rock music, the musical style is in the vein of Fugazi, Cap'n Jazz, Hot Snakes, Gang of Four etc) as I've only got two mono hardware compressors, two mixers (each with st

Anyone familiar with the technique Parallel Compression and have any ideas they would like to share on this technique. A friend of mine who has a fairly established studio was telling me about this technique.

Are any of you using lossless data compression for archiving and/or sending audio files over the net? If so, what are you using and how? If not, why?

hello

i have produced some techno tracks that i am now trying to
master by myself for demo purposes and to test them on bigger club pas

i am doing this as the final process all inside my production session
recording the final stereo file to 16bit

Hello there!

I've been reading a lot of litterature about compression in mastering and mixing lately. And i do mean, A LOT.
I knew, i know, and i understand, and more than anything else i agree on the fact that compression is just too much used nowadays... And that it does no good to music, etc...

just wondering what the general view is on compressing the overhead drum mics during tracking. Necessary?,Stupid?,Imperative?
I realize that its mostly a matter of opinion and taste,but if anybody has any input or suggested threshold/ratio-attack/release settings theyd like to share id dig it very much.

So if a vocalist has good control over his or her dynamics is compression necessary?

If you increase the gain slightly and pull the vocalist a little bit back from the mic can you dispose of the pop filter?

If a tree falls in the woods... nevermind.

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Hey guys,
After using countless plugging s like waves, tc etc..
I decided to spring for the Wavesssl plugins
I'm not very familiar with "real" higher end hardware, so maybe this is to be expected, but why when is it when apply a good amount of squeeze does the stereo panning change?

Also, is there a way to not get this effect?

I am guessing that hardware compression, limiting and EQing at the mastering level will yield much better results than software, especially garageband. Are there any good hardware compressors, limiters and EQs that won't break my wallet?

Is it safe to say for ballads slow songs the compression should be on vocals slow attack and slow release? and for more syncop[ated rock songs med attack and med release?