Dangerous Music COMPRESSOR, User Manual, Page: 9 / 19

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English: Control sibilance by reducing “s’s” from a singer or gently tame the harshness from cymbals recorded with cheap
Chinese condenser mics or poorly re-sampled loops.
Technical:
sibilance boost
kicks in a Baxandall shelving EQ with 2dB of boost at 5kHz.
EXTERNAL SIDECHAIN
Feature: When
external sidechain
is engaged, this allows connectivity with an external equalizer (i.e. plug in that graphic or
parametric equalizer you had junked in the attic).
Benefit: By employing an outboard eq, you are able to increase or decrease sensitivity to specific frequencies.
Example: The snare drum has a vicious ring that is “no bueno”. When it hits the limiter it proves even more villainous. Connect the
parametric eq your bass player left you when he stole your girlfriend and engage the external sidechain. Then boost the
level and sweep the frequencies until you hear it grabbing the offending ring.
Tip:
,
When
external sidechain
is engaged, the audiophile electronics of the Compressor’s sidechain circuit are still available.
In other words, you can use your external hardware and the
bass cut and
/
or sibilance boost
simultaneously- that’s
powerful.
SIDECHAIN MONITOR
Feature: Hear only what the sidechain hears.
Benefit: Target exactly the audio perpetrator. In other words, go after the problem and leave the rest of the audio unscathed.
Example: To find and dispatch an offensive snare drum ring that the tracking engineer was too stoned to address while recording,
connect your external equalizer, engage the
sidechain monitor
button, boost the eq’s level and start sweeping frequen-
cies until you hear it caught in the cross hairs. (In other words, offensively isolated.) Disengage
sidechain monitor
and
now toggle between before and after with the
engage
button. The more you boost that frequency,the more Compressor
will duck it when it rear’s its ugly head.
3. CONTOUR BUTTONS
[
contour buttons pictured above
]