These 5 Compression Mistakes Will RUIN Your Mix
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- čas přidán 22. 06. 2024
- In this video, Austin talks about 5 common mistakes that people make with compression that ruins their mixes.
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Timestamps
Intro 0:00
Don't Add Compression Just To Add It 1:30
Not Leveling A Source Before Compression 5:00
Stop Making One Compressor Work Too Hard 9:20
Not Understanding The Exact Compressor You're Using 12:45
One Setting Doesn't Always Work 16:47
Outro 20:32
You have become top notch in your explanations. Not clouded or over-said. Your confidence is showing but it's not arrogant, it's impressive.
Thank you! I really appreciate that.
Facts 💯
I love how easy Cubase makes it to level out a track before compressing it
Another great video mate! Super clear and great video quality really makes the viewing experience really easy to watch!
Really good tips mate. I’ll,certainly take some notes and give it a try.
Thanks for sharing this 🫂
Thank you for helping elevate my production to the next level. I'm an independent artist & I self produce all my own work. I'm releasing an album this month & your channel really helped me level up my production from my last album :)
Would love to see a compressor comparison deep dive video explaining where each different compressor is typically used based on a specific application or sound/genre, with also your personal go-to’s and recommendations!
This is fantastic :) I already knew most of these concepts but it's a great quick explanation, I wish I had your video a few years ago, LOL.
Awesome video Austin! great reminders and guide lines to follow, even for a experience engineer producer like myself
Leveling out the vocal is the #1 way to get the best results out of a compressor but, oddly enough, I rarely ever do it. And it never fails, I regret not doing it EVERY single time.
One of those things I need to be reminded of now and again, I think.
thats the reason I generally use an 1176 into an LA2A on vocals
@@choppa24k Are they both outboard? I've tried the exact same combonation with the CLA series in a vocal chain but never really happy with the results.
@@CaptainVelveeta its really down to the settings. i put my eq'd vocals into the 1176, at the slowest attack setting and the fastest release, just to catch the peaks, and feed that signal into the LA2A and i typically run the LA2A on comp mode instead of limit, but some people prefer limit. the most important part in my opinion is the original vocal. if it doesnt sound good on its own, theres probably not much there to work with in the first place.
it's so tedious, but SO WORTH IT
The manual compression is a must for vocals , And The vocal is the only instrument I'm concerned with compression 😅
Thank you. I feel a bit uncertain about compression. Sometimes I can make it do what I want, other times not really. So it's good for me to listen to your advice.
Austin inspired my music Forsure thanks brother
A video on vocal chops of creative vocal effects please!!!🙏
Thank you for another amazing tutorial! Would you recommend EQing the chorus vocals differently than the verse also or is clip gaining enough?
skipped new ‘challenge vid’ uploads by some other big yt producers when i saw this pop up 😊 best practical advice, tips etc… of any YT producer channel imho, thx for all ur hard work! 👊🎶🎹✨
Something that gave me trouble early on was the interaction between volume automation and compression. There are cases where you want the volume automation before the compression. You mentioned clip automation for vocals which I think of as getting the compressor tone to be more uniformly applied to the vocal. In most other cases, I apply volume automation after compression since a couple of db of glue compression often does most of the work to get an instrument to sit well in the mix across sections of a song.
Compressor in voices an glue mix
Just recently found your channel. Great videos! What about compression on an acoustic guitar played with a harsh pick? How to smooth the attack? Compression? EQ? Both?
I’d probably go with a transient shaper to be honest. Or a fast attack and fast release to grab the transient and let go quickly.
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any thoughts on Softtube FET compressor for vocals?
6. Compressing your main elements with a fast attack. I don't know a faster recipe for an unintelligible, buried lead vocal than this. Using a slower attack REALLY goes a long way for opening up sources and sending them up front, where they need to be. I prefer a faster attack for background vocals, myself. :D
Yeah I used to SLAM my vocals with the fastest attack but it really just ends up turning them down because nothing comes through.
Please, can you make video about how works with la2a
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A tool that I would like explained is called a "Vocal Exciter". Short or long, if you are versed in the application of that tool, I'd like to understand it's purpose and usage better. Thanks
Question: How do you record your voice while demonstrating on cubase?
I have my mic go into my interface and then it's routed through a loopback system in my interface console and it spits out a digital output to OBS!
Oh ok! Thanks a lot! I am also trying to start making content so I needed to figure out how to do this! Love your content! @@MakePopMusic
If you use OBS, there's a separate ASIO plugin you can use without complex wiring hacks. OBS wont capture the Cubase audio without it. I have a few videos where I use it with Cubase on my youtube (i'm not growing a channel, it's just for various forum discussions, bugs I find and private videos showing friends things). Google OBS ASIO for the download. OBS don't make it, it's by someone else.
what is the song used in this video?
Compressors to me are just another for of transient designing. They do so much to a sound with just the limited knobs given. You really have to mix mix mix and mix and mix different types of music and different styles of recorded music to learn the nitty gritty of what they do, and also train train train and train your ear to hear what a compressor is doing. But as far as leveling goes, I dont think compression are the best for leveling vocals. Like a 2:1 ratio on a distressor or fet kinda helps leading into a main compressor and and opto i OKAYYYYYYY too but if your vocal is super dynaic with peaks just clip gaining, splitting it up into different tracks or using a limiter works best for quality's sake. I opto are great tho on non-transient/low-transient things like pads, synths, and bass
Could you do a song with a at2020 microphone and mixing it
I've seen some of your tutorials where you take an instrumental track and you bump it up and mentioned that it sounds better higher or lower. I'm assuming that this is within the same key or perhaps it's because there was dissonance? Would you consider this reharmonization and can you talk more about it because I think it's a big hurdle for many people that are trying to make their demos as professional as possible.
Those 1176s from Slate can't control the vocal dynamics properly. Waves CLA-76 and UAD 1176 are much better in terms of compression behavoir on vocals and bass especially.
I could buy a course just about compressors 😅
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time stamp 7min he cuts the clip then selects all three to make them one clip again what is that? Please someone tell me the name and/or key command PLEASE!!!
Highlight and command B to “bounce” them
@@MakePopMusic interesting ok thank you. Just replace, right?
It feels illegal to be this early
punctuality is definitely a virtue!
It feels like you're calling out every metal guitarist who copies Nolly's mix bus chain. lol
Definitely didn’t have them on my mind but if the shoe fits… 😂
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Bruce Swedien never used compression , his mixes are probably the most popular ones in the world
different strokes for different folks. He also did use compression for color, and a lot of the projects he mixed would've had elements compressed during the first engineering stages, unless he was also the recording engineer.
If you're engineering and mixing modern music, I wouldn't be taking mixing advice from someone who did well in the 80s on completely sonically different records.
The eyes give it away.
Good video though.
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