Tech Talk: Loudness / Compression (Electronic Beats TV) 

"If you want it loud, just crank up the volume control. " Excellent.

i ll come back to this video every 1 or2 years ... what an amazing guy ! explains so well

Best explanation I've heard yet on compression!!

Love the workmate speaker stands. Ty Telekom EB for continuing to bring these great videos and having such a great attitude.

Doesn't hurt the eyes as much as the ears, what an awesome sense of humour , yet true, O the irony.

einfach auf den Punkt gebracht

Top notch, very valid points about definition and the importance of the transients. Also, when you make electronic music, compression and limiting shouldn't even be all too necessary as you don't deal with live recordings where e.g. a guitar player hits certain notes too hard. With velocity, volume envelopes etc. you can make sure that there are no excessive peaks anywhere. Just use the f'n faders and stuff to make a proper balanced mixed and add only a tiny anount of limiting to finish it off.

That's probably the best explanation on how a compressor works, posted here on RU-vid. I found that mostly when I wasn't happy with the compression for my tracks I had used a too long setting for release time and killed the dynamics this way. I guess that's one of the most common mistakes, so check your release time everyone! Let your music breathe again!

Sehr kompetent und wunderbar erklärt! Danke!!

I SERIOUSLY wish all people thought like him/me/many others, the loudness war is awful, was when it started and still is today.

beste war der letzte satz. genau das!

Klingt nach Profi!

Dein Beispiel mit "KRAFTWERK" bringt es absolut auf den Punkt

amazing explanation

Only if you're fully aware of this but still do it for stylistic reasons you're doing it right. But most electronic producer/dj's don't realize they can learn a lot from mixing and mastering engineers.They think they can master in a small studio with a couple of thousand dollar speakers, when mastering engineers have the best rooms with speakers up to a 100.000 dollars providing MAXIMUM resolution.You can't compose, mix AND master all by yourself and expect optimal result. That's megalomaniac.

Super Beitrag !

Thanks. Great film.

really nice easy to understand video - thank you dubplates !!

Good stuff.

great video - could have been longer ;-)

Genelec ht315a’s sitting on top of Black and Decker workmates by the looks of things!

I want that shirt!

hallelujah!!!

really good!

A lot of music is extremely tiring to the ears today. And that is because people don't understand compression and limiting just serve a purpose and they shouldn't be used if you can achieve the same otherwise but without the side-effects; artifacts and loss of definition.

Einschwingvorgang.

nice! thanks! : )

He knows his shit

sauber...

gutes video

Should I go for -3 db or -6 db for maximum peak level when doing electronic music? I always go for -6 personally, but I don't know if that's too much headroom actually.

why is the title in English but the video in german?

Hej dannebroder!

Something like Dubstep doesnt need a huge dynamic range though...

does anyone know which model the 3 way speakers in the background are?

Track ID 0:35 ? ... Dear Telekom: Please put all track IDs in your video-descriptions. Thats good for listeners, the producers & the DJs. It would be a good step to become even more professional than you already are ;)

AMEN!!!! AUCH WENN DIESER BEITRAG SCHON ÄLTER IST SOLLTEN DIE LEUTE AUFHÖREN DIE MUSIK SO LAUT ZU MASTERN.....VIEL DYNAMIK=EUER URSPRUNG; WENIG DYNAMIK= NOCH EUER SONG?

Warum manchmal meine Songs etwas leise klingen ;-)

Teeth.

2013 dark times in germany when there were no dentists.