DUAL COMPRESSION: When do you use it?
DUAL COMPRESSION: When do you use it?
I have 1 distressor with the stereo link mod and am wondering if I should be saving up for a second. When do you guys use 2 compressors linked up?
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Jcooke
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Occasionally, in live sound situations, I will compress a vocal by itself from the insert jack, and then send it to a group bus with a stereo comp patched in, though generally the group comp is set more for some added light limiting for all of the stage vocals than for anything specific to one signal.
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Re: DUAL COMPRESSION: When do you use it?
You mean like for stereo applications??jcooke wrote:I have 1 distressor with the stereo link mod and am wondering if I should be saving up for a second. When do you guys use 2 compressors linked up?
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Stereo compression can be used on anything. A pair of tracks, a subgroup, an entire mix, a mult of a mono track (where you set the two compressors different and listen to the imaging get all screwy), effect returns. You could use them across two different sources when you want the both the sources to impact the compression (like a compressed kick drum linked with a compressed bass). And just because you're using a pair of compressors across a stereo source doesn't mean you have to have them linked. You get a less-stable image and sometime more width (or at least more motion across the speakers) by not linking them. But it's good to have that option.
The Distressors are great to have as a stereo pair because they're capable of so many different things. You could totally use them in series (in this case, by "in series" I mean one into the other OR during both tracking and mix) without the sort of goopy buildup that you can get using the same compressor on something twice because of the number of different compression types it'll do.
That's my two cents.
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The Distressors are great to have as a stereo pair because they're capable of so many different things. You could totally use them in series (in this case, by "in series" I mean one into the other OR during both tracking and mix) without the sort of goopy buildup that you can get using the same compressor on something twice because of the number of different compression types it'll do.
That's my two cents.
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I have, in the past, run two linked channels on a source NOT for stereo, but as a ducker or even in seires to force the detector into a weird position.
Like if you want something high ratio on a vocal, but it is sounding too "squeezed," I will put one compressor at a low ratio like 1.5:1, and link that comp to another with a higher ratio, but use the low ratio comp as the master, so I can set it to really react. The second comp in the chain is "closing down" based on the first comp's reaction. It can sound really cool. even with the high ratio comp first in the chain, you can get some interesting things happening...
As a "ducker" it is really just having something really transient, like a snare in one compressor, and the violin (for example) in the other. The snare ducks the violin...
Usually this is for stereo operation.
Like if you want something high ratio on a vocal, but it is sounding too "squeezed," I will put one compressor at a low ratio like 1.5:1, and link that comp to another with a higher ratio, but use the low ratio comp as the master, so I can set it to really react. The second comp in the chain is "closing down" based on the first comp's reaction. It can sound really cool. even with the high ratio comp first in the chain, you can get some interesting things happening...
As a "ducker" it is really just having something really transient, like a snare in one compressor, and the violin (for example) in the other. The snare ducks the violin...
Usually this is for stereo operation.
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