Exploring MultiBand Dynamics in  

Hahahaha because he's the same Joe, you silly Billy. Haha com'on, they even look and sound the same. It's obvious 😜😝. Actually... OMG no, look he's got a slightly different haircut.... Lemme check. Okay turns out it's two twins, called respectively Joe and Joe. They pretended to be the same person for 14 years since birth until they got found. Shocking!! Na.. I made that up. I'm just bored actually..

He's the same Joe Gilder from Home studio corner

Which one do I shoot!?

Presonus probably asked permission before, so no copyright infringement

For guitars I've learned to place it on the low end of the spectrum especially for palm mutes.

is 'auto' or 'adaptive' on?

You are correct. It just makes it a standard compressor at that point. I have an old Marshall ED-1 compressor I use on my guitars. The nice thing about that unit is I can dial in what I want to compress. If I play my big jazz guitars, the bass get's a bit overwhelming so I set the comp. to hit the low end to even out the sound. The nice thing about multi band comps is that you get in essence both a standard comp and a multiband. Once you use one, you will find a ton of uses for it!

It should be linking the settings between the bands, but each band is still compressing independently. Even if the attack/release times and threshold are the same for each band. The side chain for each band is only listening to the frequencies within that range. So if you have program material where you want to set a general threshold of -12 (or whatever) on your mix buss, you may hit a part of the chorus where the cymbals are going crazy, and that upper band is going to be reacting to that and compressing down on those specific frequencies, but at that same moment, maybe your bass frequencies are only just touching the threshold a little bit - the compressor won’t be squashing every- only the frequencies that are getting out of control. When used lightly, with the same settings- it can be away to even out the balance across your track. I think it reeaaalllyy depends on the type of music or sound your are running through it. You might want the kick drum to pump the whole track... well great use a normal compressor. But you might not want that, and you can use the shared threshold for general leveling and let that one band work harder than the other bands on the problem frequencies. It’s a little more natural sounding and transparent to me when set that way. Multiband with linked settings have served me well for sound design, acoustic instruments (jazz and classical), ambient, experimental. All sorts of stuff. But if it’s not working in a linked mode.... unlink it and set your independent atk/rel/thr....

@@GrimmusiKRecords Got it. I wasn’t thinking it through. Thanks.