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Compressing the room mics - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Audio Mixing Bootcamp
Compressing the room mics
Room mics provide the glue that pulls the drum sound together into a single cohesive element, instead of just multiple drums. With that said, how you compress the room mics can make a huge difference in the overall drum sound. In this movie I'm going to show you how to compress the room mics to either pull the drum more together or emphasize the room ambience. First of all, let's listen to the drums without the room mic, and then we will add it in. You can hear the difference. (music playing) As you can hear, the room mic adds a lot to the drum sound, and it add some cohesion to it, so instead of sounding like individual drums, it sounds like a full drum kit. But it will sound even better when we add some compression. Once again, I've added the generic Pro Tools Compressor/Limiter plug-in, just to show you that there's nothing special with this, and you can actually make everything sound good with whatever you have, as long as you set it out the right way. So let's listen to what is…
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Understanding compressor parameters3m 42s
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Setting up the compressor14m 45s
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Compressing the drums7m 53s
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Compressing the room mics4m 9s
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Compressing the bass5m 24s
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Using the New York compression trick4m 23s
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Compressing the clean electric guitars4m 40s
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Compressing the distorted electric guitars4m 48s
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Compressing the acoustic guitars8m 7s
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Compressing the piano6m 35s
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Compressing the electric keyboards4m 32s
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Compressing the vocals4m 34s
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Compressing the horns3m 55s
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