Daisy chain Compressor?
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 1 posts since 24 Nov, 2020
Hey guys, was just reading about splitting compression amongst compressors (serial compression) and thought has someone come up with a plugin that has 2 or 3 comps in 1 plugin? So, you could have a vanilla comp for peaks etc, a colour one for erm... colour or that vintage sound, and then one bus or glue comp, with each just doing a few DB's reduction etc. Even more far fetched it could have one control so you could say enter how much reduction you want, and the plug could split it between the various comps. Anyway, has it been done, can it be done, or am I totally talking shit and showing off my noob badge here? Daisy chain Compressor. Good name there too!
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- KVRist
- 416 posts since 22 Nov, 2015
The Voosteq Material Comp does something similar. You have the first compressor section, then you have a colour/saturation section and then at the end you can have a bus/glue compressor. It also has transient processor and stereo imaging part too
It's currently reduced to $29
https://www.voosteq.com/
It's currently reduced to $29
https://www.voosteq.com/
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- KVRian
- 642 posts since 28 Oct, 2014
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- KVRian
- 1030 posts since 26 Feb, 2018
Serial compression is generally a pretty good idea. Each compressor has a personality, and the more compression you do the more it shows its character. Compressors of all kinds typically start falling apart after ~6 db of compression. We revere the vintage ones that could handle 10db+ without sounding like garbage, because perhaps they change/distort the sound but do so in a pleasant way.
One trick to try to keep the audio transparent is to not let any compressor do more than 6db of GR, then pair up compressors whose characters complement the material and each other. This is how we get the typical trick of pairing up the LA-2A with an 1176 and doing about 6db GR on each.
If you have a digital compressor with a knee knob, and or a RMS/Peak knob, then you have all you need to use compressors in serial and set them up to taste to do different things on the material. Free Kotelnikov is a great place to start experimenting.
One trick to try to keep the audio transparent is to not let any compressor do more than 6db of GR, then pair up compressors whose characters complement the material and each other. This is how we get the typical trick of pairing up the LA-2A with an 1176 and doing about 6db GR on each.
If you have a digital compressor with a knee knob, and or a RMS/Peak knob, then you have all you need to use compressors in serial and set them up to taste to do different things on the material. Free Kotelnikov is a great place to start experimenting.
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- KVRist
- 417 posts since 5 Jan, 2007
