Elektron Musical Instruments

On Tue Nov 05 2002, Flavio Alvarez <srminimo@...> wrote:

> Actually, it is the other way around. You want to
> compress your bass drum first, and then bring
> eveything toghether in the mix (since you cannot
> compress stuff separately in the MD- at least not
> internally-, you can compress everything together
> towards the low end and then you can bring up that hh
> and snare you're talking about wanting to be more
> snappy with the EQ)

It took me a while before I got to grips with the compressor. This is
what I did:

1. Put a handclap with looooooong decay on beat 2 and 4. Quite low
   volume, I'd say about 40/127.
2. Kickdrums on beat 1,2,3 and 4. Max volume.
3. Go to the compressor, lowest possible value for triggering
   compression, maximum compression ratio
4. Minimum attack time, maximum decay time

Start the pattern, lower the decay time until you hear the compressor
start pumping. Play around with the rest of the controls for the
compressor.

This made me understand a bit more of how the compressor in the MD works.

/Janne

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Janne G:son Berg, d3berg@...   http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d3berg
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