Producing Music from a Home Recording Studio : Audio Compressor for Home Recording

Learn how to use the audio compressor when recording music with home recording studio equipment. Get tips on how to direct a recording session in this free video.

Expert: Jesus Cardoso
Bio: Jesus Cardoso was born and raised in Mexico City. From an early age he was interested in music, and began working in music production as a teenager.
Filmmaker: macaela vandermost

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• diy
• audio
• rock
• analog
• recording
• studio
• digital
• producer
• album
• songs

[guitarrodan104]

I've always found that ALL the expert village videos are crap.

[mohanohi]

Camera person don't have any idea what the audience need to see... He is showing the tutor more than the monitor. And sound compressor example is not also good.. Doesn't makeout what he is trying to tell.. It would be good to capture sound directly from the system he is applying compressor and mixed with the tutor voice rather than directly capturing from the speaker..

[bbbkink1]

No... I think he explains quite well the dynamics. Yes you need to cut the peaks so to ''level'' the audio in the track, and after raise the overall level of the squashed track. You can compress or limit, the only difference is the ratio used, and when limiting, you can make sure never to go over ''0'' and so never distort the final result

[dannon2010]

Wow, this is really bad, on so many levels.

[selatik1]

His camera guy was recently fired by a porn director.

[Albibertius]

hahahaha. that's the biggest crap i've ever seen. as already pointed out by others, this is a limiter, not a compressor. he explains compression in a wrong way and doesn't even use the limiter in the right way. to increase overall volume at the end, he should've raised the right bar, not the left one as shown in the video. that's the reason nothing happens :D. But good, that he turned up the volume of the speakers. hahaha

[glict]

That's a limiter. Not a compressor. And yes they are similar. But you use for different application.

[alexmolalexmolalexmo]

don't listen to him, he speaks about compression and shows limiter... when not used porperly, it can destroy dynamics of your music....like every dynamic processing in wrong hands

[TheProgmagog]

@justin555666

More properly put, at a 10:1 ratio, for every 10db of signal over the threshold that goes into the compressor, 1 above threshold will come out. so if I set my threshold at 0 dbu (to simplify the math), and I pass a signal that is +20 dbu (yikes) my output signal will be +2 dbu.

is that consistant with what you meant?

[T74G]

right on!!!!!

[BeatPerfection]

it does! thanks!