Very ofthen when mixing a snare (or a tom, or certain other sources) a common technique is to splitt the snare signal, compress one of the signals and mix it with the uncompressed snare.

This requires an aditional AUX and Submix track, thus taking up valueble screen space.

That's why i'm wondering if there are any compressors out there with a mix-parameter (dry/wet)?

It would make certain tasks much more simple and clean.

Btw, Aleksey...perhaps this could be a cool feature for your Crunchessor?

just use tracktion ... wet / dry on plugins as standard ...

slainte rob

mixpressor does

its part of the psp mixpack

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Very ofthen when mixing a snare (or a tom, or certain other sources) a common technique is to splitt the snare signal, compress one of the signals and mix it with the uncompressed snare.

Indeed that's a classic technique. I have a compressor coming out soon which has dry/wet for just this purpose. "Compadre Beatpuncher" (VST/PC).

It's a compressor designed specifically for beats, drumloops and other percussive material.

You can get some more info here:
http://www.kvr-vst.com/get/1262.html
http://www.otiumfx.com/compadre.php

regards,
Rune

rune_lh wrote:

Indeed that's a classic technique. I have a compressor coming out soon

soon like 2 weeks or more soon like 2 months?

blackcom wrote:

This requires an aditional AUX and Submix track, thus taking up valueble screen space.

Or copy the track to a new track, put a compressor on it with no lookahead or anything else that would delay it (assuming lookahead would even cause some extra latency in your app) and mix the 2 of those tracks together.

Cool Edit/Adobe Audition has an FX rack that allows parallel mix as does the VST effects rack called Chainer.

Voxengo Polysquasher has a dry/wet as does Soniformer2 off the top of my head.

You're right - it does make for a great sound sometimes !

from another angle, camelphat will allow you to select the frequency range you want to compress (via a bpf) and then mix it with the original.

in general, camelphat is well worth a go of the demo, anyway

PSP Vintage Warmer has it.

The compressor I built myself in Quantum-FX.

Forever,




Kim.

don't forget about Vanilla Compressor.
http://www.chunkware.com/vanilla/

to quote Mausoleum (if i may), "yummmm - that's some smooth pumpression now with the w/d mixer thingie ..."

very smooth indeed, my friend. please give it a try.

== chunk

defjamm wrote:

rune_lh wrote: Indeed that's a classic technique. I have a compressor coming out soon soon like 2 weeks or more soon like 2 months?

Soon like 1 week
...if no more surprises decides to mess with the schedule.

Best regards,
Rune

blackcom, thanks for suggesting such feature for Crunchessor, but I think I would not implement it as it is a 'bonus' feature in my opinion, non necessary in many cases.

I think SuperCamelPhat is over-rated. Admittedly I used in on the drums for my last track, but I find it just crunches the hell out of everything.

Just use a single aux send with the compressor on it.

No need for an extra bus unless your host is really weird.

CypherOne wrote:

but I find it just crunches the hell out of everything.

That's what I like about it
Obviously, the compressor in Supercamelphat is not a surgeon's tool. After all, it only has one knob. I still find myself putting supercamelphat on every drum track and every bassline, though. Love it to bits

Hmmm....any opinions on the PSP MixPressor..any good for drums?

rune_lh wrote:

defjamm wrote: rune_lh wrote: Indeed that's a classic technique. I have a compressor coming out soon soon like 2 weeks or more soon like 2 months? Soon like 1 week ...if no more surprises decides to mess with the schedule. Best regards, Rune

thx for info, i'm really lookin forward to try this compressor with drums.

@cypher one: i think the same. it makes kicks bigger, but not in a nice punchy way, more like a big fat ugly unpunchy something, that i don't like.

@blackcom: try the whole mixpack, not only mixpressor.