Use bus compression for glue

The different parts will share a common fate because their amplitude changes are similar, which cues our perception to blend them together.1

For multiband compression, hit it at 0.5dB on each band. This can help the “aliveness” of a mix.2

Dig in deep with a bus compressor to hear the density, then remove it. After losing the density, you can go in at the track level and work on the crest factor.3

  1. Audio Production and Critical Listening pg. 89 ↩

  2. FULL COURSE: Mixing Colbie Caillat’s “Goldmine” with Marc Daniel Nelson - YouTube ↩

  3. Fetching Title#p8yb ↩

Notes mentioning this note

All about compression
All about compression Compression is a [[Nonlinear process]].
Bus processing
Bus processing Beware sometimes bus processing can counteract track processing.1 [[Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio]] pg. 328 ↩