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By aby1 Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:59 pm
what settings of compressor u use to keep nice sound of kick and fat snare. how u keep low and punchy sound of kick
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By dubnov Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:10 pm
that's not possible with the mpc 1000 compressor.

By aby1 Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:42 pm
dubnov wrote:that's not possible with the mpc 1000 compressor.

so what are u using for tracks with kicks?? and what on master
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By dubnov Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:27 am
I use an outboard compressor. For punchy kicks and snares experiment with an attack time somewhere around 30 - 40 ms.

By jpautomatic Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:02 pm
dubnov wrote:I use an outboard compressor. For punchy kicks and snares experiment with an attack time somewhere around 30 - 40 ms.


yeah, just use your ears, and use something with meters, so you can see the average level of your original sound. you want to set the threshold around that level and use the compressor to get the level closer to 0db. that and those kind of attack times are a good general guidelines, but with any effect there's no magic setting that works for everything, you just got to find what sounds right to you, and it will be different every time.