Gentlemen, I was mistaken. The person who I thought had archived the old forum had actually only archived the infamous “The String Theory – Heard of It?” thread. I apologize for the mistake
If it’s an open, clean sound, then the compression is more understandable…
Compress a clean sound? Uhh… sorry to break it to you but for the most part you’re almost completely defeating the purpose of using compression doing that.
Lightly compressing a clean guitar to even out the peaks and tighten up the dynamics is pretty common. Ask around on this one. Maybe you need to reexamine the “purpose of compression”.
Compression doesn’t “tighten up dynamics” imbecile, it clips the peaks, period.
…and I could easily give back any minimal dynamics lost compressing with a bit more eq on my mixer
You’re going to do what with what?
I do what needs to be done, not what YOU think. Don’t mistake it and get your ego all in a knot again, its not about what you want, its about what I want.
I’m sure you had a great time learning to be an ‘engineer’ from the back of Guitar One magazine, but it’s pretty apparent you don’t even know what the words you use mean, let alone have a clue about how things work. Enjoy your time here, I’m done with you.
That’s an interesting one, to be honest! Maybe the boy is a genius. As compression can also have the side effect of changing the tone of the processed signal … he may be working on a restoration plug in to send to Cedar that uses "Smart EQ* " for the effect of "ReverseComp * " (to “undo” compression)!
*Sorry boys, I’ve just already copyrighted these!
PS - I’ve just been reading about this concept called, “String Theory”. Anyone know anything about this, I wonder if it has musical applications?
It’s the ones that we least expect that always surprise us. He might just be thinking in some parallel way none of us can follow. Like Einstein failed math, per multiple verified urban legend urls.