Audio Compressor for Home Recording

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Jesus Cardoso, and I’m going to introduce you to the compression effect. The way that I have it setup here in the session is to the master bus, or the summing of all the channels right to the speakers. Speaker left, speaker right are these two channels that you can see right here. So, what compression does is basically remove all the excess transience or the peaks, the loud stuff in the music, and makes it more smooth; thus being able to put more volume of it in the final product. The way it sounds without the compression is like this. So you see, here we’re seeing all these peaks of music that we actually don’t need. We’re going to put our compressor down to cutting those peaks in here, which would be like this. You want to just cut these peaks in here. That’s good. Now, it’s barely noticeable, but now that we have removed all of that, we can actually raise the level of our music quite a lot more. Just like that. That way, we can have our final product put into the radio, and it’ll be the same loud level as every other song, so that’s compression. "