From the course: Audio Foundations: Compression and Dynamic Processing
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Understanding and using multi-band compressors/limiters
From the course: Audio Foundations: Compression and Dynamic Processing
Understanding and using multi-band compressors/limiters
Remember how I said a de-esser was a frequency-specific compressor working only on the sibilant sounds within a track or mix. A multiband compressor follows the same idea, but works across the entire frequency range. By splitting up the compression into multiple parts, or bands, an engineer can focus dynamic control within a specified frequency range, leaving other frequencies uncompressed. Because of these multiple bands of gain control, multiband compressors are especially handy in situations where only certain parts of the signal need dynamics control, like cleaning up the low-end resonance of a signal while leaving the high-frequency content uncompressed, or less compressed, or super- compressing the top end of a vocal to achieve that pop polish without all the harshness that would come from using EQ only. Mastering engineers will sometime use multiband compression to tighten up elements of a mix that didn't receive enough compression during the mixing stage, like a bass guitar…
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Understanding and using de-essers3m 46s
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Get in the Mix: De-essing a vocal track3m 30s
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Understanding and using gates4m 41s
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Understanding and using expanders1m 35s
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Get in the Mix: Gating a drum track3m 18s
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Understanding and using multi-band compressors/limiters3m 31s
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Controlling frequency content with multi-band compressors3m 3s
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Understanding and using transient shapers3m 25s
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