Compress for tone Eq for loudness

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Posted by LoveHate on Dec-31-2014 02:59:

Compress for tone Eq for loudness

yay or nay ?

Posted by soulstar606 on Dec-31-2014 04:02:

huh?

Posted by meriter on Dec-31-2014 04:14:

probably nay

Posted by deegee on Dec-31-2014 05:53:

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Posted by cryophonik on Dec-31-2014 06:01:

Compress for tone, sure. A lot of compressors impart some tonal character.

EQ for loudness, maybe indirectly by filtering out unnecessary frequencies and boosting the most important frequencies in each part.

Posted by TranceElevation on Dec-31-2014 06:47:

Compress for control, eq for enhancement.

Posted by Raphie on Dec-31-2014 07:14:

Yep, both are right, some compressors affect tone, either brightening things up, or dulling them. You can then choose to correct that with an EQ, or maybe it's desireable.
Tone v/s loudness is weight v/s loudness, the more you HPF, there more room you make for the rest of the spectrum. Same counts for the high freqs. Cut both and you end up with phoneline bandwidth which can go insanely loud

In the end there are no rules or standard behaviours, they differ per plugin or box. Your best of by learning what each of your tools bring to the table and learn to use them at your advantage. Rather than being pre-occupied, trying to find "standard recipies" or "best"' practises.
Doing nothing is a vald choice too.
And one should worry about tone and distortion instead of loudness. Loudness by itself should never be a goal.

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Dec-31-2014 14:37:

Compress for compression, eq for eq.