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"It's got more punch than a kangaroo at boxing practice": What is OTT compression - and how do you use it?

Ableton Live 8 wasn’t exactly what you’d call a sweeping success when it was released in 2009. In fact, issues with stability and usability were so poorly received that it led Ableton to publicly ...
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The ultimate compression cheat sheet – go-to settings to help you make better music

Most people with an interest in music production or recording probably have at least a loose idea of what compression does. Put simply, it ‘squeezes’ incoming audio by reducing the dynamic peaks in an ...
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5 quick EQ and dynamics tips: "On heavily dynamic signals like guitars and vocals, which go from loud, powerful spikes to low, detailed moments, try serial compression"

Software EQs such as FabFilter Pro-Q or Ableton’s EQ Eight offer the capability to set the EQ bands not only based on the frequency value, but also by musical note. This has some handy musical ...
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"It's loud, in-your-face, and has more punch than a kangaroo at boxing practice": What is OTT compression - and how do you use it?

There’s a dial for time, upward, and downward compression as well as output level for each band, but the actual values aren’t exposed: the OTT plugin isn’t about creating a versatile multiband ...