What’s better, a feed-forward compressor or a feedback compressor?
In order to debate this rarely thought about and rarely understood issue, we need to know how a compressor works to begin with.
In the case of many analog compressors, the component in charge of regulating the level is a simple Read more...
In my last post, I wrote about how I like to use compression to help mold the overall tone and envelope of a track.
This time, we’ll go a little deeper by looking more closely at “leveling amplifiers”, a slight variation on the theme, and a powerful set of tools Read more...
When I started out in the studio, I saw a compressor as the unit that regulates the gain of a signal, keeping it from getting too far out of hand.
To a young Rick Slater, the ratio interacted with all the other controls in contributing to that simple end.
These Read more...
I recently took a stretch of road less traveled to see an old friend, Tony Drootin, as he oversaw construction on David Amlen’s latest studio, the newly reborn Sound on Sound now in Montclair, NJ.
Both Amlen and Drootin were key players in the NYC studio scene during its last Read more...
Michael Brauer has teamed up with Waves to create a new plugin that aims to take panning to the next level.
Based on the rare FS1 Cyclosonic panner from Songbird, a novel signal processor that could produce 360 degrees of panning using just two speakers, Brauer Motion represents the next Read more...
