From the course: Tips and Tricks for Modern Producers

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Multiband compressors: A breakdown

Multiband compressors: A breakdown

- [Instructor] All right let's talk about multi-band compression. What I want to look at to start, is just an overview of how multi-band compressors work. I'll show you my favorite one, and let's just talk a little bit about the ins and outs so that we can then move forward and check out some applications. So I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to open up the Pro-MB, which is a great multi-band compressor made by FabFilter. And I really, really love their plugins. You've seen me do it with their EEQ as well, the Pro-Q. I love that I open it up and it's just an open playing field here. It's like oh, here's your audio. ♪ Let your hair down ♪ And it's coming through and that's what we're giving you, no more, no less. So I enjoy that, I like being able to kind of go in. Now, if you do want a preset there're plenty of presets, just go right there but essentially in order to use this device, you add a band and it's much like…

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