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19th August 2006
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: ITB now unfortunately!
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Thread Starter | Compressor 4 kick, compressor 4 snare? Compressor 4 kick, compressor 4 snare? whatcha all using & why? |
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19th August 2006
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| Gear maniac  Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: New York, NY
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| Purely subjective. If possible I like LA2A on kick...33609 on snare. DBX 160 is nice unit for the money. There are 50 billion compressors...I'm sure everyone could work. Only engineers know the difference. In Pro Tools land. I really like the digirack III stuff. Its free, but man it's pretty quality and versatile stuff. I use Focusrite red for smooth compression...and digirack stuff for crunchier sounding compression. Experiment...it's fun. |
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19th August 2006
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| Gear addict  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: São Paulo, Brasil
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| DBX 160x or a Distressor for the both. |
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19th August 2006
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 | What kind of music??? hip hop or rock could yield completely different answers. |
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19th August 2006
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: West Coast Central Florida
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 | I like Distressors on kick and snare for most any genre...any FET type will usually work well too.
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19th August 2006
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| Distressors always here on the way in pulling about -2 to 3 db max in distortion 3 mode on 2:1 ratio for warmth and tape emulation. then I opto during the mix on a parallel sub with the OCL-2... it sounds big man! Jason
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19th August 2006
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| The SPL "Transient Designer"... and/or a Crane Song LTD. STC-8, and/or a Smart Reasearch C-2... and/or a parallel path to or through a Chander TG-1. Other than that, I hate compression on all drums!!!
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19th August 2006
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| EL8 for both, pretty much always. Sometimes 1176 on kick or a 2254 on the snare. |
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19th August 2006
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would you consider the transiet designer to be a compressor? or is it just an effect box.... | |
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19th August 2006
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...and a transient plugin (oxford) placed after the compressor.... I like Sony Oxford dynamics/transmod quite... | |
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19th August 2006
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| If I want a clean sounding kick? I'll use a Red 3. If I want a dirty sounding kick? I'll use either a DBX 160vu or a Distressor. On snare, I'll use a DBX 165 or an 1176 cause they tend to make the snare stay in one place.
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20th August 2006
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| Today: DBX 160 on kick and Smart C2 on Snare Tomorrow: Lord knows  Jo |
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20th August 2006
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| SSL X-Logic compressor works great on both too. |
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20th August 2006
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| 2254E on both the Kick and Snare is my absolut fav. Unfortunately I don't own 1 or 2. I do own 2 Distressors which I never use for Kick or Snare. I've been using the Massey plugin lately and adding samples tends to compress too.
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20th August 2006
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When I read it, it was like being in a noisy bar when someone says something wrong and it all goes quiet and everyone looks over! | |
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20th August 2006
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| 1176ln for both |
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20th August 2006
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| Snare: Distressor Kick: None  Drumbus: 1968ME with big on, so again, very little bass freq compression. I like it when the lowend of the kick drum kicks you in the butt where it's expected to be. I have found that even with sub-par drummers, the kick drum is often the least of the problems (compared to snare and toms  ).And I haven't come accros a compressor that makes the kick sound better in general. Things change and for the larger part for the worse. But that's how I hear kick drums. Greetings, Dirk
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21st August 2006
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21st August 2006
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| It depends on if the sound needs compression... If I decide that it needs a compressor, then it's a question of what I want that compressor to do to it (if I'm using it for an effect, snappier snare, rounded off kick, etc.) .... If I decide I want it fast & snappy I'll use my DBX 160's... If I want it rounder, a Distressor or something else. The combinations are limited only by what I have in both the rack and plugins list. |
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21st August 2006
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| Gear maniac  Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Austria/Europe
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| I use the Voxbox (LA2A character) for the kick. |
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21st August 2006
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| While tracking I like: Snare=> Atomic Squeezebox and then multed to an 1176 or MC77 Kick=> Pendulum 6386 -> Drawmer gate |
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21st August 2006
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none of this "I don't have to work hard for my drum sounds 'cause someones already made a synth the will do it for me" lol! | |
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