The question of thread title should be asked from Benny Benassi.

I have to agree with Looney4Clooney, in this day and age slapping a Compressor throughout the entire track seems so uncontrolled. Automation is the way to go.

Of course you can do what you want and in the end you can get decent results no matter the approach, but the most control and thus flexibility is through automation.

A compressor may be a volume knob but you do not have the capability of riding the fader to mimic the result of a nice hard compression with fast atk/rls no matter how many hits of speed you've had. rock vocals are heavily compressed.

I don't always mix running into a limiter, some people do, that is one technique. I usually don't, just giving an example. I saw deadmau5 do a before and after with a hardware limiter on his livestream so i wanted to try it. I don't hate either or say they're wrong.

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Last edited by mysticalninja on Oct-30-2011 at 04:04

It would however solve the problem of changing timbres and their enormous loudness differences you mentioned such as screaming and then soft singing. I'd prefer automation to fill the gap before compressing anything. The Compression then can tighten the rest without having to be as hard as without the automation.

Either one will work, but compression will bring up that delicious background noise, room reverb etc. i like hearing the pumping in between breaths etc.

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Originally posted by Psynon The question of thread title should be asked from Benny Benassi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r838pJCS2o0

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i usually send my kick and bass to a compressor, and i found that with ny compression you get a nice balance with dynamics.

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Originally posted by mysticalninja i need to use ny compression more.. i keep hearing good producers talk about it. and yeah ask benassi if its okay to squash your bassline xD i love that sound personally i made benassi/moombahton-esqe bassline the other week.. http://www.mediafire.com/?iec3nxy5mrsxnmo fun starts at 2:45

psh call that bass? go search skrillex LOLOLOLO MELT MY FACE OFF

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So moral of the story if you want loud sounds use compression.

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Originally posted by DJ Robby Rox So moral of the story if you want loud sounds use compression.

Sometimes.

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