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on the contrary, ill compress anything if it sounds better. one thing i use compression for on leads is to force them into the front of a mix. depending on how you set up the compressor you can get odd effects. some desirable. some not. typically if i want a supersaw to sound right at the front of a mix and i cant do it because the hihats are in the way or its just eating up too much mid and upper range frequency that something else is using, ill compress it hard, dip the threshold anywhere from -1 to -5 dB and up the ratio pretty high. anywhere between 8 to 1 and 15 to 1. that usually makes it sound much more front row but depending on how you set up the attack/release and the knee it can have the unfortunate effect of cutting off some of the sound and making it sound a touch choppy. if you screw around with the compressor attack you can also get odd effects as the compressor accelerates into action. 99% of the time i find this undesirable.
of all the tools i use, parametric EQs, 7 band EQs, filters and compressors are by far the most used. i used to only compress kicks and bass. but experimenting with it, ive found you can really compress anything to sharpen or fatten things up. it depends on how you set it up in relation to the other instruments in your track. compressing hats and snares (particularly on hard knee with low thresholds and low to mid ratios) can chop a bit of the sibilant hiss off your hats and make them alot more snappy.
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