The multiband compressor sits quietly beside the classic VCA or FET units on most digital consoles, yet its influence on contemporary sound design is far from marginal. Rather than treating a track as ...

We have expectations of our synths and sample libraries, which they occasionally can’t live up to. We’ve all played up a scale on a given sound only to discover that above a certain key, the sound ...

Regular compression can be hard enough to get your head around, so you'd be forgiven for struggling to master its more complex counterpart, multiband compression. Multiband compressors split the ...

— With four crossover and two floating bands plus a sidechain feature, Waves C6 is an essential sound-shaping plug-in for studio, live sound and post production — KNOXVILLE, TN, September 21, 2010 — ...

One of the problems I have when producing screen cams is that my voice fades at the end of the day, making the tutorials I create less clear. Fortunately, this is a problem I can easily fix in Adobe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most people with an interest in music production or recording probably have at least a loose idea of what compression does. Put ...