Chaining Compressors

Using a great sounding compressor is awesome but sometimes when it is pushed too far it just sounds awful or it will cause unwanted effects so you should chain 2 compressors together to ease the load on the one by itself.

If you use a compressor that has a slow attack on something that is very dynamic like vocals, you can have it cause a breathing or a pumping effect. To fix this problem you can use a fast compressor with a high ratio and threshold first to treat the dynamics. After place a slower compressor with a low ratio and threshold to smooth everything out.


so for example you can use an 1176 to limit the signal then smooth it out with a LA2A

Hope this helps!

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