Compression settings:
The prerecorded track goes out A1 and the newly recorded track goes in A2. To listen back, they both go out 2 track.
The Millenia’s fastest attack setting is 2ms.
Set settings at 12 o’clock with a 3:1 ratio
Try a fast attack, fast release
Ratio 6:1
Low threshold, attack around 30ms, release 1000ms, 9:1 ratio
The attack lets the initial transient through. The release is slow enough that the compressor has a slow release and the room sound rushes up.
Fastest attack, Slowest release, 10:
Fast attack, slow release, 9:1
Medium fast attack, medium release
Relative snare timbres:
Thud – fast attack
Crack – slower attack
Changing the threshold will keep a consistent snare, with a ratio of 8:1 or higher
Try a fast attack, and a fast release. Then the same fast attack with a faster release.
Fast release, medium attack gets lots of punch out of a snare drum.
Slowest attack, fastest release, threshold at 9:00, and turn the make up gain up. Start with a ratio of 1.4:1, then 3:1, then 6:1.
The 3:1 setting sounds brighter than the 6:1 setting. The compressor also beings acting like an EQ.
Fastest attack, fastest release.
Fastest attack and slowest release, ratio 15:1. Long release will prevent the room sound from rushing up.
Fast attack shaves off the transient.
Low threshold, fully clockwise, everything is being compressed, fast attack and release, 10:1.
Fast attack, .5 sec release, ratio 10:1, low threshold, room sound not very present but overall loudness is up
Same settings with Medium attack -
Threshold fully clockwise, attack 10, release .7, ratio 8:1
A compressor acts like glue, and imparts a sonic characteristic when combining tracks that were recorded from different places.
4:1 ratio, 2 sec release, 2 ms
Release – how long it releases after the initial attack.
Raising the threshold means less audio will be compressed. Because little to no audio is getting compressed, the compressor acts as an amplifier.
Conservative settings make it sound more uniform.
Fast release can release too fast on the low frequencies and it will distort.
Super fast attack, long release, and lower threshold, you’ll get a crushing sound
