In this weeks Tuesday Tip, Chris gives some tips as to what to listen for when setting a compressors attack and release times. You’ll hear how both of these parameters drastically impacts the sound, and how dialing them to appropriate settings is imperative to getting the result you’re after.
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Compression In Mixing: How To Use It Without Ruining Your Track
Compression 101: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Use It Without Wrecking Your Mix
Compression — it’s either your best friend or your worst enemy in the studio. This week on Inside the Recording Studio, Chris and Jody take a high-level look at this mystical mixing tool and break down what it actually does, why it’s so often misunderstood, and how to use it with purpose.
Whether you’re new to home studio gear or have been twisting attack and release knobs for years, this episode gives you a better grip on compression’s core functions: threshold, ratio, attack, release, and make-up gain. You’ll walk away with practical recording setup tips and insights that can help demystify that “squashed” or “glued” sound we all chase.
And of course, it wouldn’t be a proper Inside the Recording Studio episode without some Friday Finds, a Gold Star word drop, and a dash of Chris & Jody-flavored nonsense to keep things entertaining.
If you’ve ever slapped a compressor on a track and hoped for the best… this one’s for you.
p.s. A premonition for the next Tuesday Tip is also within this podcast.
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Gear we used:
Jody’s Mic & Voice Chain: Telefunken C12 – Groove Tubes Vipre – Apollo – UA Neve 1073 – UA LA2A – UA Studer A800
Jody’s Channel Strip: iZotope RX Spectral DeNoise – iZotope RX Mouth DeClick – UA Neve 1073 – UA LA2A – UA 1176E
Chris’ Mic & Voice Chain: Slate ML1 – Apollo – UA – Slate VMR (FG12, FG73, API Eq, SSL 4kE) – iZotope RX Voice – DeNoise
Chris’ Channel Strip: Eventide Precision Time Align – iZotope RX Spectral DeNoise – iZotope RX Mouth DeClick – UA Neve 1073 – UA LA2A – UA 1176E
Master: Oek Sound Soothe 2 – iZotope Ozone Imager – iZotope Ozone Maximize.
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Tuesday Tip: Phase Cancellation
In this Tip Jody walks you through extreme examples of phase cancellation. Using a Kick drum sample as the instrument to pay attention too. Exploring what it sounds like when a sound can completely erase itself, and when it could fully enhance itself and other sonic values in-between.
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