coast to coast
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I've known for ages basically what compressing is (or at least thing I have) but because I've mainly been recording scrappy four track demos its been very important to me.
So compression - effectively making the quiet bit slightly louder and the loud bits slightly quieter, right? Over-compressions leaves everything the same and maddy sounding which is a bad thing I've gathered.
Furthermore I was reading my Tape Op book of interviews and some guy was basically explaining that analog tape often sounds good because there's a natural compression in built in tape recording, hence the warm sound and so on and that you "really need to learn how to use an outboard compressor with digital"
I'm at the moment using audacity to get my recordings on the computer. Is its compressor any good or does it make a difference what you use?
And what are good parameters to go by if you want to get a slightly warmer sound but keep the dynamics of the piece?
So compression - effectively making the quiet bit slightly louder and the loud bits slightly quieter, right? Over-compressions leaves everything the same and maddy sounding which is a bad thing I've gathered.
Furthermore I was reading my Tape Op book of interviews and some guy was basically explaining that analog tape often sounds good because there's a natural compression in built in tape recording, hence the warm sound and so on and that you "really need to learn how to use an outboard compressor with digital"
I'm at the moment using audacity to get my recordings on the computer. Is its compressor any good or does it make a difference what you use?
And what are good parameters to go by if you want to get a slightly warmer sound but keep the dynamics of the piece?