Johnnyo
Joined: 28 Aug 2007
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I've done a few recording and mixing projects the past year and it came time to compress some of the bass and kick. I've found that personally it doesn't do anything for me but what do I know? 
My question is....generally speaking, how much compression is used in today's recordings before going out on the airwaves? Will most artists compress their sound in order to give it that "extra" oomph and make their sound more liked to the general public? |
Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:52 am |
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wailingalleycat
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Joined: 07 Oct 2003
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Are you talking mastering compression or individual track compression.
short answer is, final mastering compression, lots. chart hits are hammered dynamically. For example the dynamic range of the latest Enrique Iglesias track is around 3db. play a song in your sequencer and move the fader up and down by 3db, thats the difference between loudest and quietest sounds in the track.
This is all loudness war, you should find quite a few articles on the loudness war by searching the web. Some engineers have even taken to purposely driving high signal levels into their high end digital-analogue converters to clip the waveforms and make it sound louder, the trick is clipping as much as possible before distortion is heard. usually in the area of 7 samples at 44.1khz.
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Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:25 pm |
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oliver
Joined: 29 Sep 2007
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Even with indiv. track compression you can notice a significant difference where drum tracks are concerned, particularly snare and kick. The dynamic of a song is pretty much determined by drum compression. Also they will sound too raw and not blend with other tracks esp. synths and guitars (which are bound to be filtered i.e. with some kind of reverb). |
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Sat Sep 29, 2007 9:09 am |
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