This is the most helpful thing I've ever seen on RU-vid. The info specific to Studio One's stock compressor was great, but the way you explained compression and sidechaining was a revelation for me. Thank you!
This is the best, in my opinion, explanation of the Compression plug in I have seen after several years trying to find something to better explain how this affects your signal. Thanks so much for posting!
I'm 52 and entering year two of an Audio and Music Production course as a mature student. I didn't even know what compression was 7 years ago! I only knew it was a scary technical thing that I should avoid! And up until this video I thought it was that thing that made your songs sound punchy. I guess it kind of is but not because it hires up volume but allows you to hire up volume later on. I'll need to watch this video at least twice more but I feel like It gave a great grounding on compression for newbies. One thing is for sure. No matter your age or experience, you will never stop learning.
Wow... FINALLY (excuse the caps) a straight forward video explaining compression at its most basic level. Every other video I've seen on youTube on compression has been way to complex. I've been mixing my own material for a couple of years now and have never used compression because I couldn't understand the fundamental underlying concepts. Your video takes out the guesswork. Even the explanation of side-chaining made immediate sense. I think you have just changed my life. Thank you!
I took my first engineering course in 1983. I'd kind of started using compression by habit, similar settings and concepts. I always thought of a compressor as a volume controller vs. a volume reducer, which is probably a semantics game, This was a great refresher course in the basics and I can already envision creative applications. While the tutorial was specific to Studio One, the explanation applies to any compressor. I'm now a subscriber.
As a new user of StudioOne (about six weeks now), a newbie to home recording, I thank you for posting this video, which explained very clearly how to use the Compressor itself. It also would have been helpful if you had started the video by showing where you find the Compressor within StudioOne, and also show how you "tell" the Compressor just to compress one particular track, vs how you "tell" it to compress the whole song (all the tracks). StudioOne seems to be a very powerful program but I find it confusing and hard to learn. Again, thanks for posting this video. If I can find the Compressor, I will follow the steps you showed in this video.
What an excellent, clear and helpful video!! I cannot think of a better way to describe the function and operation of the Studio One stock compressor. This not only saved a lot of time, it also gave me a good understanding of how a compressor works and without despairing with too much physics. Thanks man!
This is the best explanation of Compression that I have heard yet, and I've listened to hours of them.....Thanks! Look forward to more of your explanations.
One again, an awesome presentation and user friendly explanations. Hat's off to you. As mentioned many times below, I finally understand how and why to use compression.
Thank you, Mike. I didn't even know any of this ''compression'' etc existed . . . my learning curve is steep; but, you are . . . . . . lowering the threshold Lol!
I only record one month out of the year, usually, so I am always forgetting how compression works. This was an amazing video. I am going to bookmark it. Thanks again for the help and I will be back in a few months for a refresher I am sure!
The whole idea with compression is to achieve a consistent dB track signal, in two ways: 1) reducing high volume peaks above the average dB level 2) boosting a signal that is below the average dB It is done by utilizing the "threshold" to initiate ratio compression or gain thru attack/release.
Excellent video, great detail. Ofcourse I'm looking to find out how to determine what my settings for threshold, ratio, attack, release, etc is. This is the closest thing to it. Thank you!
Very good video. For me it's not so hard to understand how cpmpressor works in itself. What is hard is how to apply it on different instuments. I usually resort to presets for eg. kick drum, snare drum and bass because of my limited experience
Very good explanation- brought up some interesting points! One question is related to bass and if you are using a bass compressor pedal also! How do you account for the two processes?
Really great vid! Is there a way to see what the compressor is doing to the wave in real time? Or should you just duplicate a track and apply it and bounce it to see the effect the compressor has on the wave? I'm so used to working on audacity where everything is destructive but I got used to a visual way of mixing.
Hi Mike, thanks for this video, especially for explaining sidechain compression. Nice feature in Studio One to pick the sidechain input from the plugin! Does CbB offer something similar or do you always have to set up the send to the plugin manually?
Is this compressor in every studio one version? I have Studio One 5 Artist ? Only just got it when I bought a faderport. Been using Luna. Seems like a little bit of a learning curve.
in cakewalk can you show how to easily chop up samples for export to be used in an external sampler..?..im told it can be done with audio snap or some other options in cakewalk... i have some audio tracks of percussive sounds i would like to use on my sampler.
I keep getting clipping I have tried to use the compression on the master input and not the tracks as they seam ok , trying to make it louder but it's pumping in and out,
The native Compressor has a filter section, but it gets disabled whenever you choose external sidechain source. Is there some way to prevent that? For example I like to only use "clicky" part of kick for ducking the bass, so in other DAWs (or VST compressors) I can usually high-pass the sidechain input to focus on the click. I can't seem to do that with native Compressor - any tips on that, other than duplicating the kick track or sending it through a quiet bus and using that as a sidechain source? Hopefully this is gonna get fixed in v5. We'll see tomorrow :) :D
LOL - what makes you so confident about V5 :) (but I hope so). Thinking out loud while I eat my dinner here. I know its a little complex but do a send from the Kick, to a bus. Have a high pass filter on that bus, and use that buss as the sidechain input. Make sense?
@@CreativeSauce Haven't you seen their latest tweets & videos? V5 reveal tomorrow is a given. Probably also a new, bigger Atom SQ with clip launching stuff (Ableton recently added support for such product from Presonus) :)
