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[ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ Active Message Board ] [ Archive Home Page ] Posted by Silent Bob on January 25, 2000 at 00:08:14:
In Reply to: I didn't explain it ot good the first time posted by Big D on January 24, 2000 at 21:44:12:
I usually do all the compression durring tracking and don't compress again until mastering. Sometimes if I'm recording live and don't have enough compressors, I'll compress some of the tracks while recording and compress the others during mixdown but I never compress individual tracks more than once.compressing a track twice can cause pumping even when using resonably small amounts of compression because the attacks of sounds are NEVER attenuated enough to avoid throwing off the compression at the next stage. To explain myself better, depending on how you set your compressor, it takes some time for the processor to attenuate the signal to the level you want, that brief time before the attenuation will cause the second level of compression to kick in at the wrong overall volume level. It will respond to the peak at the beginning of the sound first then adjust to the attenuated signal after the peak decays to the attenuated level.IMHO you should only compress a track once. If you're comfortable with compressing
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