elysia mpressor Dual-Channel Creative Compressor - Manual (Page 18)

18 settings - smashed drums
If the drums are supposed to sound extremely
compressed and loud, this setting can be used
to limit almost the entire signal in a way where
nearly no dynamics remains.
The Auto Fast function for the attack param-
eter makes sure that the mpressor works fast
but without distortion, and fast release times of
about 50 ms are responsible for the loudness.
The ratio controller is set to 1:10 which makes
the mpressor act like a kind of fast brickwall
limiter. The drums now sound as if they had
been recorded with a focus on the room micro-
phones: few transients, lots of ambience and
long sustaining toms and cymbals.
Just play with this a little and find out that you
can use the mpressor almost as a reverb proces-
sor. Do not be afraid of extreme sounds! You can
always keep things under control by doing the
following:
Route the compressed signal to a separate buss
and then mix it with the unprocessed original,
and the result will be the typical parallel com-
pression which is very popular for this kind of
application.
Remember that setting high amounts of make-
up gain also adds harmonics which can contrib-
ute to a powerful sound.
If you are processing a stereo track, just try de-
activating the Link button. The result will be
that the left and right channel will not be com-
pressed exactly the same anymore, which can
breath some new life into a heavily compressed
track.
SMASHEd dRUMS
settings