ABSTRACT
The most misused effect: too much is a turnoff.
MIX SMART QUICK START : Compression and Limiting GOALS
Practical motivations include preventing overload, overcoming noise, and de-essing bright vocals.
Fit tracks together in your mix more easily through tamed loudness, improved intelligibility and articulation, smoothed performances, and cleverly reshaped amplitude envelopes.
Feature tracks by extracting ambience and artifacts, manipulating timbre, and creating distortion through compression.
GEAR
Master the quirky set of parameters and features: threshold, ratio, attack, release, makeup gain, hard knee, soft knee, stereo, and multiband.
Recognize the sonic traits and operational pros and cons built into the topology: tube, optical, FET, VCA, PWM, and digital.
Acquire an internal sense of the sound qualities and dynamics capabilities of each and every make and model.
