I’m very interested in getting a compressor for my case. I like to make very slow, quiet, textural, drum-less music, often using field recordings and samples of old records, and I initially thought that a compressor wouldn’t have much to add to it. I also use the original SSF Vortices as my mixer and expected its saturation and colour would also negate any need for one. However, after playing around in software with some of my recordings I was pleasantly surprised to be wrong. Using a single band compressor in Adobe Audition, I was able to reduce some rather heavy, overblown bass, resonance and midrange in places and also bring out some subtle sounds in my field recordings back into the mix. And it was a lot more fun than I expected too, without really knowing what I was doing.
I’m still totally inexperienced but happy to take the plunge on a compressor to experiment and learn with on the fly. So I’d love any recommendations for something that would work with this kind of music (Steve Roden, Celer, Forest Management, Basinski) and help bring out the subtleties lost in the mix. Someone mentioned side-chaining their reverb aux send to great effect, so that would be nice try. And I’d love it to have a kill switch so that I can instantly flip between the processed and dry signal to hear the results. And finally, unless there’s a huge sonic or cost benefit, I’d like to keep it in my case so that I can insert it earlier in the chain if needed (pre end of chain fx), and because I don’t have an outboard mixer.
Hope that makes sense. Thanks for reading and any advice in advance.
I’m still totally inexperienced but happy to take the plunge on a compressor to experiment and learn with on the fly. So I’d love any recommendations for something that would work with this kind of music (Steve Roden, Celer, Forest Management, Basinski) and help bring out the subtleties lost in the mix. Someone mentioned side-chaining their reverb aux send to great effect, so that would be nice try. And I’d love it to have a kill switch so that I can instantly flip between the processed and dry signal to hear the results. And finally, unless there’s a huge sonic or cost benefit, I’d like to keep it in my case so that I can insert it earlier in the chain if needed (pre end of chain fx), and because I don’t have an outboard mixer.
Hope that makes sense. Thanks for reading and any advice in advance.
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