Thinking about dynamics
The reason for this post is that I found myself watching youtube tutorials for years and hardly found someone speaking about the possibility and beauty of expansion as part of dynamics.
So I thought I d share my approach about the different options of dynamics.
To improve a sound on its own or in the context of a mix, I recommend thinking more about dynamics, not only compression. Dynamics has several options to chose from and compression is only one of them.
We could listen to the audio and decide to compress it, we could expand it or decide not to compress it at all.
Another option would be to use it only on one or several frequency bands, in parallel to keep the integrity of the original sound and last but not least, we could sidechain the signal with an altered version of itself or sidechain it with another signal.
How do you approach dynamics ? And how do you decide whether to not compress it at all ?
Best, Mario
The reason for this post is that I found myself watching youtube tutorials for years and hardly found someone speaking about the possibility and beauty of expansion as part of dynamics.
So I thought I d share my approach about the different options of dynamics.
To improve a sound on its own or in the context of a mix, I recommend thinking more about dynamics, not only compression. Dynamics has several options to chose from and compression is only one of them.
We could listen to the audio and decide to compress it, we could expand it or decide not to compress it at all.
Another option would be to use it only on one or several frequency bands, in parallel to keep the integrity of the original sound and last but not least, we could sidechain the signal with an altered version of itself or sidechain it with another signal.
How do you approach dynamics ? And how do you decide whether to not compress it at all ?
Best, Mario
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