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audiovisceral · 6th January 2007

I was taking a look at the Chris-Lord Alge presets on the Waves SSL plugs and I noticed his standard output is through a 10 ms auto-release 4:1 ratio bus compressor.

In a typical project compressed thus (perhaps 3-4 db reduction let's say), how would you generally go about compressing it further? Let's say it's well balanced and doesn't need any specific correction through multibanding.

It's something that I find peculiar - the way mixes are compressed at mix and then re-compressed at master. It would seem more logical to me to only use one compressor once and leave it at that. Otherwise, I guess I could see using a faster attack and release compressor to catch transients missed by the ssl ...

6th January 2007	#1
audiovisceral Lives for gear Joined: Apr 2006 Thread Starter	Compressing a typical SSL compressed mix I was taking a look at the Chris-Lord Alge presets on the Waves SSL plugs and I noticed his standard output is through a 10 ms auto-release 4:1 ratio bus compressor. In a typical project compressed thus (perhaps 3-4 db reduction let's say), how would you generally go about compressing it further? Let's say it's well balanced and doesn't need any specific correction through multibanding. It's something that I find peculiar - the way mixes are compressed at mix and then re-compressed at master. It would seem more logical to me to only use one compressor once and leave it at that. Otherwise, I guess I could see using a faster attack and release compressor to catch transients missed by the ssl ...