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time. If you set Ratio on ALL and Release on FAST,
you’ll get the fastest release time possible. Try the
Distortion presets.
The compressor isn’t fast enough
If you find that the Attack time isn’t fast enough
(doesn’t squash all the transients), increase the
Lookahead until you’re satisfied.
The compressor is too fast
The Attack times get slower if Ratio is set on ALL,
so in order to get a late attack set Ratio on ALL. If
you want to increase the transients but compress the
rest of the signal, use the “all buttons in” mode. Try
the Transient presets.
It makes crackling sounds on the transients
This is because of the extremely fast attack time.
First you can slow down the Attack times so that
the gain reduction becomes not as abrupt as it was.
To compensate for the slower attack time, increase
the Lookahead.
All the energy and attack of each note disappears
It is a fast compressor and chances are that it will
compress fast transients (yeah?). That’s why we
added the Parallel Inject. By increasing the Parallel
Inject you can blend in a little bit of the original
signal (with the original transients). Try to balance
it so that you get the transients from the dry path
and the rest of the signal from the compressed path.
All the energy and attack of each note disappears (pt. II)
Another trick you could try, if you’d like to restore
some of the transients is to narrow down the detec-
tors frequency bands by adding some Low Cut and
High Cut filtering. It doesn’t work on all program
material, but it’s worth a try.
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control surface is connected, the Remote status
indicator will light up.
The knobs that are being
controlled will also get a
thin frame around them.
External
This indicator displays when an external side chain
is present. Whenever an external side chain is
present, it is possible to use the External Side Chain
knob to set the amount of gain of the external sig-
nal to the detector.
In Pro Tools it will light up whenever you have con-
nected a side chain bus to the plug in. This indicator
will always be lit in hosts that use the Audio Unit
(AU) format. In VST, it will light up if the host ac-
cepts side chain inputs, but this doesn’t work for all
VST hosts... So it goes.
Stereo
The Stereo indicator
lights up if the com-
pressor was instanti-
ated in stereo mode.
Tweaking Tips
We didn’t want to include too much of the standard
“this is how a compressor work” theory, but rather
focus on the parts that make this plug in special.
Here are our favorite tweaks.
I want distortion!
There are two types of distortion in a compressor
like this, first we have the input and output stage
distortion and second the (frequency dependent)
distortion caused by the compressing. To get the
first type of distortion, just increase the Input until
you get enough distortion. You can even have Ratio
set to 1:1 (=no compression). The other type of dis-
tortion is usually caused by a fast attack and release