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Compressing the electric keyboards - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Audio Mixing Bootcamp
Compressing the electric keyboards
Like guitars, compression on keyboards depends on how wild the dynamic swings are. Sampled acoustic or electric pianos don't have nearly the dynamic swing of a real acoustic instrument, but they still can have quite a lot of peaks, depending upon the way they're played. In this segment I'll show you how to add compression to any electric keyboard to keep it strong and steady in the mix. So we are going to look at this electric piano. It's in stereo, but it's panned a little bit to the right. There is no compression on it. Listen to how it varies in level. (music playing) There was quite a lot of variation there. He is a very good piano player, and that's what piano players do. They play dynamically. But that doesn't always work in the context of making a record. So that's why we use the compression in order to smooth those dynamic variations out a little bit. So let's listen in context with the rest of instruments and hear how some of the notes fall away and you don't hear them, and…
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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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