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EASY PARALLEL COMPRESSION | How To Use Parallel Compression Tutorial

February 24, 2021 • compressors • EQ

EASY PARALLEL COMPRESSION | How To Use Parallel Compression Tutorial

  VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION Hi, I’m Streaky. I am a mastering engineer, or 25 years’ experience working on some high-end projects and go to streak.com if you want to know more about that. But I'm here today to tell you what I know about a thing called Parallel Compression. Parallel Compression is used for individual tracks. It can be used on your mix bus across the whole stereo track and it can be used in mastering. So what it is, essentially is using a compressor to really hammer the sounds. Get a really concentrated version of the individual track or the...

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WATCH ME MASTER WITH OZONE 9 (start to finish) | How To Master Music With Ozone 9

February 15, 2021 • compressors • EQ • mastering • plugins

WATCH ME MASTER WITH OZONE 9 (start to finish) | How To Master Music With Ozone 9

  VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION Hi, it's me again, Streaky. And on today's video, I'm going to master one of Matt, my assistant’s tracks in Ozone 9. It's what you've all been calling for. So if you're new around here, I'm Streaky. I've been mastering records at a high level for the past 25 years. And I'm on YouTube to tell you everything that I know. And I mean everything. So as a mastering engineer with a rack of expensive outboard equipment and a load of plugins in my computer. I'm not one just to use Ozone just for mastery on its...

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GLUEY COMPRESSION | How To Use A Mix Bus Compressor

February 13, 2021 • compressors • EQ

GLUEY COMPRESSION | How To Use A Mix Bus Compressor

  VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION What a day. Welcome to England. Look at the weather. Pouring the rain. Coffee studio. Today. I'm going to talk you through how to get gluey compression. Once I get out of this depression. You’re really such a rhymer! Hello, it's me again. And today I'm going to discuss with you compression. I'm going to show you a basic way to compress. I'm going to tell you how I do it and give you loads of other little tidbits of information as we go along once we get inside the computer. But before I start, let me...

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QUICK TIP: PUNCHY DYNAMICS WITHOUT LOSING TRANSIENTS

June 28, 2019 • compressors • dynamics • Mastering Advice

QUICK TIP: PUNCHY DYNAMICS WITHOUT LOSING TRANSIENTS

When you're mastering, you want to push into limiters and compressors to get it sounding together, glued, and smashed together. That's the mindset that you've got, and you think that that's what you should be doing. The problem with that, however, is that you lose all the transients and all the sharpness in front of the track. So you don't get these sweet, punchy, dynamic sounds or keep the loudness. The way I get around that – and it's a mindset thing of how you work with compressors when you're a mastering engineer, compared to when you're recording or mixing...

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