compressor?
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shervington
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compressor?
could someone please explain to this noooooooooooooooob, in as simple but detailed instructions, what compressors are and also how to use them?
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uhh - dump it onto a track and try some presets. thats one way to find out. use (compressor II)
or read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression
uhh - dump it onto a track and try some presets. thats one way to find out. use (compressor II)
or read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression
Take a spring and place it between both of your hands. Now push your hands together. This is known as compression. Now visualize your audio track as the spring and the compressor as your two hands. Hope that helps.
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surely a google or forum search will provide you with a pletora of answers to this question.
To be fair though, if you don't know what it does it is not something that you will "get" right away and it's not always as obvious in what it does as opposed to other effects like a filter or a flanger....
Best way to discover how it works and what it does is to take for instance a drumloop, put a compressor on it and set it to some extreme settings (high ratio, low treshold), and try and set the output gain so that the sound has the about the same volume as before the compression so that you can actually hear the difference it makes in the sound rather than just making it louder.
Then when you can clearly hear what's going on, experiment with less extreme settings and changing the attack and decay amounts.
To be fair though, if you don't know what it does it is not something that you will "get" right away and it's not always as obvious in what it does as opposed to other effects like a filter or a flanger....
Best way to discover how it works and what it does is to take for instance a drumloop, put a compressor on it and set it to some extreme settings (high ratio, low treshold), and try and set the output gain so that the sound has the about the same volume as before the compression so that you can actually hear the difference it makes in the sound rather than just making it louder.
Then when you can clearly hear what's going on, experiment with less extreme settings and changing the attack and decay amounts.
RTFM! 
no, seriously - I really like the live manual's explanation of compression - its very brief and to the point -
"A compressor reduces gain for signals above a user-settable threshold. Compression re- duces the levels of peaks, opening up more headroom and allowing the overall signal level to be turned up. This gives the signal a higher average level, resulting in a sound that is subjectively louder and punchier than an uncompressed signal. "
no, seriously - I really like the live manual's explanation of compression - its very brief and to the point - "A compressor reduces gain for signals above a user-settable threshold. Compression re- duces the levels of peaks, opening up more headroom and allowing the overall signal level to be turned up. This gives the signal a higher average level, resulting in a sound that is subjectively louder and punchier than an uncompressed signal. "