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Compressing the clean electric guitars

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Compressing the clean electric guitars

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Plain electric guitars can greatly benefit from compression since they usually have a lot of dynamic range with a lot of peaks. In this movie I'm going to show you how to control those peaks and keep the level study with the right compressor settings. First of all, with an electric guitar, the more it's amplified, the more it distorted, the less compression it usually needs. If it's direct, usually it needs a lot of compression in order to keep the level steady, because there's lots of dynamic range. Let's have a listen to what guitar 2 sounds like soloed. (music playing) Now let's listen to it in the track. (music playing) You can hear it, but especially on the turnaround, it sort of gets lost, so let's add a compressor. Once again, we're going to just use the generic Compressor/Limiter in Pro Tools. Let's solo it up first, have a listen. (music playing) And just like we did before, we're going to set the attack time as long as it will go and back it off until we start to hear the…

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