+ Production Tips & Techniques +

[Sike-1]

i think it would be dope to have a thread devoted to production techniques.

what do YOU do when compressing?

what progs / plug ins do you use?

anything about engineering the sound we all love to make.

what do you think?

heres the tip i gave in needs' "i want to make a tune" thread on parallel compression in reason ( or any DAW, i used reason as the example)

Take one channel, say a kick drum, and bring that up to the mixer, use the insert send from that channel and feed it to a compressor. Now take the output of the compressor and bring it back on a completly different channel and viola! parallel compression.

using the spider audio splitter works wonders for this, and if you got reason 4, using the groovemixer to bring the compression back a few milliseconds late fattens it up even more.

also, try routing your second compression into say, a stereo imager, and widen it a bit... you could do the same with flanger / delay / unison / phasing ( but dont use phasing if your using the groovemixer, cause phasing will be introduced once you delay it a few milliseconds).


try to keep this thread going.

[five]

If you murder a prostitute in your studio and include it in the recordings, it makes for a great conversation piece on audiophile websites for decades.

[Beat_Monstah]

If you murder a prostitute in your studio and include it in the recordings, it makes for a great conversation piece on audiophile websites for decades.

The trick is disposing of the body!!!

[Heebus]

this article/link might help with the understanding of parallel compression


click here for fatter drums

[djjeph]

this article/link might help with the understanding of parallel compression


click here for fatter drums

parallel compression can and should be used for many more things than only drums, but, yes, that is a good guide.


my #1 production tip is: don't eat messy foods near your equipment... knobs 1-7 on my oxygen 8 no longer work.

#2 production tip: get a cheap midi controller, so you can eat messy foods near your equipment without caring whether or not it works properly.

[Heebus]

parallel compression can and should be used for many more things than only drums, but, yes, that is a good guide.


my #1 production tip is: don't eat messy foods near your equipment... knobs 1-7 on my oxygen 8 no longer work.

#2 production tip: get a cheap midi controller, so you can eat messy foods near your equipment without caring whether or not it works properly.

standard, jeph!


#3 production tip: wear a rubber suit and hair net when in the studio with jeph

[djjeph]

standard, jeph!


#3 production tip: wear a rubber suit and hair net when in the studio with jeph

dnb excites me in ways that porn can not.
what can i say?

[SandaN]

this article/link might help with the understanding of parallel compression


click here for fatter drums

that is a sick site.

[SYMBIANT]

I'll dive into this thread some other time

[Sike-1]

i was just hoping to maybe make a thread to spread knowledge, and maybe even possibly help the new guy who doesnt understand eqing, or sample chopping, to give an example.

thanks for taking the time to trash it