Elektron Musical Instruments

Federico Ciapi wrote:

> I should mute all tracks but not kick, adjust the compressor, and then
> adjust levels and eq of all tracks. Am I right?

I have found that it's best to make a mix first that is as much too my
liking as possible. So NO compressing, NO EQ, and NO reverb. You can make a
good mix not only by volume changes and panning, but also by editing the
sounds themselves (for example make a sharp hihat softer, or tweak some more
punch in a kick that is too soft.
Then EQ and Reverb. If you use small rooms as reverb, and not too much
reverb send, and you combine this with the compressor and EQ, it's my
opinion that the MD sounds awesome already.
The last step is inserting the compressor for the finishing touch (and
there's quite a lot of useful options on this one, e.g. the knob where you
can filter out compression of low frequencies!)
Since I always record on HD, I most of the time use 4 band compression from
my Waves C4 afterwards, which is *really* cool.
I only have the MD since 1 week, and I have not made any recordings with it
up till now (busy at work), but the combination of MD and computer will be
great. I plan to record loops as a whole, and maybe some instruments
separately as to give them a special software treatment later. OTOH There's
also some great Battery kits I can use to complement the MD. Looking forward
already to make new stuff!

>
> I will try this, even if I have started achieving good results (=
> snappy snare!) with the other way (kick not compressed and on
> individual out, everything else compressed by the dinamix).
> Isn't the HP sidechain in the compressor designed to not let BD
> influence the compressor? That would make sense with what I'm
> doing....

Yep, that's a very cool feature! OTOH, I seem to like the results more when
I compress the whole frequency spectrum...

> I'd really like to have more compressors on the MD,

As said, record to HD and compress your heart out :))

> I hope not to be the only one interested in this thread!

Nope, me too!!!

:))

Gert