How many compressors do you need? It seems the flood never stops! With advanced configurable compressors like Pressor and Compassion, it seems to me many compressor behaviours can be emulated, maybe not perfectly but quite closely. What can't be emulated of course is the non-linearities of the emulated audio circuitry, but are the compression curves themselves also non-linear? I guess that's my first question, and the answer is very likely "yes".
My main question is how does one go about examining compressor behavior and curves? I'm thinking setting up a number of broadband noise samples of varied attack times, Fq distributions, durations and releases, feed them into the compressor under test, recording and analyzing the results. Is there a better way? Thanks for any input.
Compressor analysis
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- KVRist
- 93 posts since 16 Mar, 2012
What about this guy? http://www.kvraudio.com/product/vst-plu ... tian-budde
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- KVRer
- 19 posts since 9 Nov, 2005 from Germany
When you watch some of the production videos on youtube, you'll notice instantly: there can't be enough. Some guys put 2-3 different compressors just on the kick mixer channelBreeze wrote:How many compressors do you need? It seems the flood never stops!
A good way to analyse a compressor is to
1. correlate input to output to get the overall delay
2. subtract the correlated input from output and then remove the DC
3. do some basic spectrum analysis
You'll get a basic idea of the distortion just by looking at the frequencies.
But to be honest I wouldn't bother. Just build it and when it sounds good, release it.
