Advanced Compression

Question 1

What is stacking compressors?

Answer 1

Using more than one compressor on a single chain

Question 2

What is the advantage of stacking compressors?

Answer 2

Compression duty is shared between the two compression stages.
Results in more natural, more transparent-sounding compression with fewer artefacts.

Question 3

What does post-reverb compression achieve?

Answer 3

This can add size and depth to room simulations.

Question 4

What is parallel compression?

Answer 4

Running a compressor parallel with the unaffected signal. The compressed version is often heavily compressed for effect. And is often employed during drum mixing.

Question 5

What is multiband compression?

Answer 5

Multiband compression spits the signal into multiple and separate frequency bands via a cross-over network. Each frequency band is processed separately through multiple compressors.

Question 6

How does sidechain compression work?

Answer 6

If we feed a different signal into the level
detector via the sidechain we can use a
different sound to tell the compressor
how to reduce the gain.

Question 7

What does sidechain filtering allow?

Answer 7

We can also insert a filter HPF, LPF or BPF in the side chain. Meaning the compressor would avoid compressing whichever frequency range we filter out. This would allow us to filter out the low frequencies, limiting the compressor to working only on frequencies above the cut-off.

• This lets you compress the mids and tops while leaving the bass free to be dynamic.

Question 8

What is new york compression?

Answer 8

Parallel compression