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Best compressor for - Focusrite ISA One Classic Preamp

Hello, I need to know which is the best recommend compressor working with the Focusrite ISA One Classic Preamp. I am recording narration, NOT singing. I would like to make the au …
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What kind of compression does my audio go through when it undergoes Dolby AC3 Codec ?

In an Optical medium, The Dolby Digital print has a 5776 dots each representing a bit of data in one perforation. Therefore 4 perforations per frame and 96 perforations in one seco …
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Remixing For The Internet?

I was wondering if there were any quick approaches from taking a soundtrack that has a wide dynamic range (film) and compressing it for something like the internet, where most thin …
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in reality, do you believe convolution compression can work?

convolution reverb is a well known thing to us all... however, what about convolution compression? can it work? what do you think?
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cutting foley/footsteps through compression?

Anyone do this? We're looking to tweak our chain somewhat, and one of the more obvious things is to go ahead and compress some of those quick transients out on the cut side of fol …
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When you are mixing dialogue, compression settings for stem

When you are mixing dialogue and you have it all mixed, what is your strategy for compressing the rest of it? I understand that multiband compression is commonly used but do you t …
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Video Compression

How do you compress a video so that it is a manageable size for protools? What codec do you recommend and what is a manageable size for LE? The original video is 360 mb and it is …
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Step Compression: Do you use it?

I often times due to time constraints and given the limited amount of dynamic range permitted for my television mixes, use step compression on my narration track. I find it causes …
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Best way to bounce down using Pro Tools?

Hello I have been syncing a trailer today and things are sounding good but none of the sounds reach 0db on the master fader. Is is best to compress each audio track or each clip? …
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How to widen a sound effects dynamics? Uncompression?

Hey guys, I have done a lot of sound design using some punches, body falls, kicks, etc. that were mashed and mastered and normalized and compressed and every-which-way processed. …
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While mixing, how aggressive should I get with EQing?

Mixing question... I need to give each element its own space in the mix and I'd like to know how you go about this. I compress the element I'm trying to sit and EQ out its competit …
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EQ, Compression sequence?

Hi all, maybe this question has already come up (though I couldn't find it ...), and surely most of you will have their own best practices here... EQ or Compression, what do you …
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Compression? When do you use it, if ever?

If at all and when and how do you use compression? I'm curious to see who out there actually uses it. You can answer with referring to either recording or mixing. I have already …