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Compressing Electric Guitar – Pro Tools 9
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electric guitars don’t usually need any compression in Pro Tools, especially when they have a lot of distortion. This is because guitarists often use a pedal rig containing several pedals, including a compression pedal.
This tutorial shows a way to brighten the guitar, add more punch and bring the guitar out to the front of the mix. Since most distorted guitars already have consistent levels, there’s no need to to even them out.
In general, adding compression to a track is a bit like cooking using salt. Use small amounts to change the flavor slowly, tasting as you go, rather than just dumping in a lot and then tasting it.
Directions
1. To start, open your electric guitar track in a Pro Tools session. Solo it out and then play it, so that you can hear what you’re working with. The track has already been EQ’d, but with compression, you can make it even brighter.
2. Select the default compressor plug-in insert, opening the compressor window.
If you prefer, you can now select the Fatten preset, because usually producers try to make the guitar sound thicker. The ratio is so high in this that it’s almost like a limiter, which you’ll learn more about later in this chapter.
When compressing, we recommend setting the compressor up manually instead of using a preset.
Start by raising the threshold to -3.9 dB. Watch the IN level bar. In this video, it’s going from around -12 to -15. It’s a small distance, because the compression pedal already helped out. Set your threshold to -17.1 dB.
3. Try keeping the knee at 0.00 dB. Set a low ratio like 3.0 :1 or 2.0 : 1. Speed up the attack to 16.9 us and the release to 210.5 ms. Raise the gain to 4.0 dB. The OUT level bar will now hover around -12.
4. Finally, compare the compressed track to the original by first playing the compressed version. Click Bypass to temporarily remove the compression, then click it once more to hear the compressed version again. If it sounds punchier, you’ve mixed it well.
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Mixing With The Pros Sample – Guitar Delay
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In this video, James Tuttle will show you how EQs, compressors, limiters, reverbs, delays, amp simulators, automation, and mastering plugins are all used to craft a mix that has clarity, depth, punch, pop, and sizzle.
You’ll get to see how and when each are introduced and how the entire mix is adjusted continuously as more and more elements are added.
You’ll begin to see how professional mixers “see” and “hear” a mix as a whole rather than as disparate techniques.
The techniques in this tutorial can be applied to any software or hardware-based effects units. You’ll be able to examine the final settings for each and every plugin in the mix and finally understand how those settings are attained. – Not as one-off uses of presets, but as continual adjustments to the various elements of the mix.
For once, users can truly see what happens behind the scenes of a mixing session in a professional recording studio.
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