Technical Theory - Compression 1/2

Full band compression explained in easy to understand terms. This goes with my audio production tips blog found here: http://audioproductiontips.blogspot.com

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[andrewvee]

Thanks everyone. glad to help. Just wish I had time to make more.

[andrewvee]

You're welcome. Glad it was a help.

[andrewvee]

Sorry. Not really possible. It's like trying to remove the salt from your soup.

[rav3beats]

nope still dont get compression

[MarkHarmer]

This is really nice - and rare to hear someone talk concisely and show visual examples. I wish more people would do youtube instructional videos like this.

Would have been the icing on the cake to hear before / after compression on each of the instruments you showed, but you have done a fantastic job - probably one of the best video tutorials I've seen on any subject.

[mathisto21]

Thank you so much for sharing...your 2 part series has explained compression so well! I hope you can upload some more videos sometime soon! Thanks again!

[ut07]

thank you this helped me big time with breaking down compression for a presentation I had to do for a workshop i had to teach

[MistaMase102]

@rav3beats im far from a master at compression however i still get it, the simplest way of putting it is this, if you are trying to make a kick drum sound how you want it, first your gunna eq it, then your gunna move on to compression, basically compression is changing the characteristics of your kick drum, say if you want the tail end to be longer and boomier, or make it shorter and more snappy, compression allows you to do that by making parts of the sound louder or quieter, simple really.

[DanSheetsMusic]

you're teaching people the wrong way to think of a compressor

[EmanuelitoPepito]

Thanks... Well explained, I feel smarter now

[mayorde18]

@divutskiDK If you have the instrumental track, and the original, you can put them simultaneously, then invert one of them. the voice will get isolated. But sometimes it's hard. Some singles come with the instrumental track as a bonus

[oticowgirl]

@divutskiDK there is asmall vsti that actually help with that called kn0ck0ut, do agreta job extracting vocals from tracks, its not perfect but do the work pretty well in some cases

[Super2ube]

Clearest spoken and easiest video so far I have found on Youtube to explain this.