I bought a mcdsp apb8. It’s got everything I’ll ever need for compression - and saturation, plus a great eq. Sold all my analog compressors and eq’s. And I’ll buy another apb eventually.
Didn't know what to expect, but man you really did a great job with this. Thank you for the valuable knowledge. Watching this reminded me of the RU-vid of the olden days where it wasn't about making money or selling out. It was about about so much more. Good times.
Thank so much. Most of the material I cover has admittedly been done over and over again on RU-vid. I try to bring a different approach. And. I truly enjoy my craft as an engineer, and love getting into discussions with like minded people. Thanks for watching. G
@@gsharpjamz Here's why I like your video more than others. No fluff man. You spoke clearly and concisely, while demonstrated that you do know what you are talking about. Just the way you speak about this makes your experience in this very obvious. Thanks! Subbed for sure man. I would love to maybe start some discussions if you interested, really trying to dig into this for my band, I am doing all the audio engineering portion. Having a dang blast.
Great content. You could consider doing another video that explains diode bridge (like Neve 2254, 2264, 33609) and PWM (like Pye 4060) compressors as well, as most people don’t focus on those types as often.
F.E.T. = Field Effect TRANSISTOR. V.C.A. = Voltage Controlled Amplifier (think of it as someone looking for a voltage rise on the output, and if the voltage rise is too high, they turn the output volume down during the peak volume. This is a form of feedback. The effect of this is to compress the volume of the peaks.) Thanks for the video. I really enjoyed it, and learned a few things. Do you address the advantages of using compressors as plugins, so as to not have go outside the DAW (Analog conversion twice: going out and then back in. Possibly introducing noise)?
Thanks for the added info. On the video I said FET= Field Effect Technology, but on the image, I wrote Field Effect Transistor. My mistake. I tried not to go overboard with the technical stuff, and tried to keep it as simple as possible, hence, not going into voltage control as far as the VCA compressor. But I appreciate your input. As far as plugins are concerned, I may create a video such as you suggest, but there are SO MANY videos on RU-vid on that topic already. I try not to be "another RU-vidr going over the same old topics." Thanks again for your input!
@@gsharpjamz You have a really nice, mellow, positive, and knowledgable presentation. You also don't overly complicate things (great for guys and gals with no technical background.) I like the whole vibe of what you're doing. I'd say, don't worry about overlapping with other guys presenting audio. Each video is different, between presenters. People will pick their favorite presenters. Your easy, friendly style should garner you, plenty of viewers.
There's still conversion going on in the box. It has to come out of your speakers so it's still converting digital to analog. I wouldn’t say it’s a advantage to have digital over analog. It’s common sense that analog introduces more noise than digital. What’s the point of your comment? Do you own any analog gear?
@@JamarConley Well, what I was thinking is that the use of an analog compressor, introduces noise from the compressor, on the way into the A to D convertor (the ambient noise of the compressor circuit.) Whereas if you use a plug in compressor, there is no ambient noise from the compressor being introduced, because the compressor is simply working with 1's and 0's, internal to the DAW. Now, if you decided to use and analog compressor, and an analog chorus, and an analog EQ, all chained in a row, in a serial fashion, you'd introduce the ambient noise from the compressor, the chorus, and the EQ, all into the input of a D to A convertor. Whereas if you us the plugin versions of these pedals, everything would be internal to the DAW. There would be no ambient noise introduced. This is what I was thinking. If you'd like to hear the analog gear that I own then go to this song, and you'll hear a recording from 1997. It was done all analog, then converted to digital. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ab3yNohfiyI.html
No. But if your compressing on the mix bus, and you've already compressed, say, a vocal, your now double compressing. Not a huge deal, because compressing in the mix bus should very very gentle anyway. BUT, if you lay on the compression hard in the mix bus, that creates issues.
Thanks for watching and I appreciate the sub. Mind if I ask what school you attended? I'm self taught over a 30 year period, and I never get tired of it!
