My two main ones are two of the ones you used in this video - BX Townhouse and Waves SSL Bus. I have several other SSL bus plugin versions (UA and SSL), but always seem to come back to the Waves version.
@@spinlightstudios The Bx Townhouse and Waves SSL bus Comp are so good on the mixbus, and even sub buses. Might be time to try out the Slate stuff for me. I see you use them regularly with great results.
@@audiodemon exactly! Great compressors with their own flavors! The slate stuff is really good. I would prefer not to be on their subscription, but at the moment I’m kind of stuck as most of my projects are littered with slate plugs haha
its sad that UAD wont include SSL plugins in Spark.....really idiotic Idea to do the API 2500 instead...you basically need the 2500 for drums and the SSL for Mixbus
Would you say dual mono would make sense on the mix bus ? I'm talking about rock and metal , the thought behind is similar to why I would use dual mono compression on the drum bus for example
I think it’s a matter or taste! Like some people think dual mono is an issue for phase correlation and others love the additional width it can add. I think dual mono can sound pretty awesome on the right mix!
@@spinlightstudios thank you man, I actually never see someone doing dual mono on the mix bus that's why I wonder, anyway, I'm going to give it a try for sure .
I don't know if I am doing something fundamentally wrong, but everyone seems to use attack times between 1 and 10 ms... And it really works in this case. But for me 30 ms appears to be too fast already basically 100 % of the time. Do I compress to weak or to hefty in the mix? Any feedback appreciated.
Every mix is very different to the next, but 30ms shouldn’t be too fast in most contexts. Are you hitting the compressor too hot? Is it bass heavy material? Low end will make the compressor react quicker and if you’re coming in too hot and have maxed out the threshold but still getting compression happening, try putting a trim before the compressor so you can dial in the threshold. Could be a gain staging issue?
@@spinlightstudios thank you for your answer! I am really only hitting 2 dB of gain reduction at absolute max usually with attack times of 50-100 ms. With a side chain filter up to like 250 Hz cause I feel it needs it. Following your argumentation likely my bass is way too loud in the mix hitting the compressor triggering to fast a reaction maybe. I will set up my compressor a bit faster in my current project and relevel the bass. Let's see what it does. Thank you for your great content and feedback again :-)
