How you compress your mix is all based on your style and the type of sound you're going for. You can choose to either compress them together and thus making the kick and bass sound "tighter" or you can chose not to and it'll still sound fine. It's all based on how you mess around with your effects and what not.

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Originally posted by echosystm As far as I am aware there is little point in compressing kick or bass by themselves. I mean, the whole idea is to make the groove tighter, how will that make any difference on a single instrument?

A whole lot more than you realize.

Compressing the kick adds harshness and (sometimes) tail to it. Compressing the bass brings it more up-front. Compressing them together is done to prevent clipping.

Remember, compression only reduces the dynamic range. If you compress the kick and bass together, but not separately, and the bass has a large dynamic range or just isn't quite at the right volume, it's going to sound quite messy when they're compressed together and it's also very easy to get the annoying "pumping" effect (which is even worse than side-chained compression).

Simply because a compressor doesn't make any noticeable difference on the sound of a "single instrument" does not mean it's not doing anything. Compression is supposed to sound transparent. More than anything else it's a way of increasing the apparent volume while preserving headroom in the mix, and since the kick and bass are not only the loudest elements of a mix together, but also the loudest elements individually, it's often very important to compress them both.

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what if i want to divine i bass sample to 3 different channels..

1. <200hz
2. mid
3. mid-24k

becouse i want to put different effects to middle and high freqs..
and then all those channels to 4 channel wheres compressor..

but when i create new synth ..fl6 will give 1 of those bass channels to new synth!!

how can i avoid that?

other than move left move right?

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Last edited by hardikaveri on Jan-26-2006 at 11:41

Do you have it set to auto assign mixer tracks? (can't remember if it can even do this) Even so, then it should only assign new channels to an empty mixer track. Don't know what the issue is.

If I wanted to do what you want to do, I'd make three bass channels, send each to a mixer track, cut the frequencies I don't want on each and apply the fx accordingly.

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Originally posted by echosystm lol, i havent used fl6 yet my bad Is it worth upgrading? Some guy told me its crap and buggy

Read the god damn manual...

Oh wait, nevermind.



In FL6 you can route each individual Mixer Insert FX channel through to however many other FX channels you want, including master if you like. Good stuff.

You could do it in FL5 too. and FL4...

And to the guy who's thinking of upgrading - the upgrade is free if you already own FL Studio (as long as you didn't buy the boxed version you get lifetime updates)

thnx 4 teh automated mixer channrls!!
that helped..

1 other question?

how u can use fl's sampler like in reason..
i mean when i press key it'll play WHOLE sample not just that long i press the button..

is there some frigger i must press?
or do i have to buy descent sampler

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