Mixing vocals and Audio Compression in your home recording studio: I've just got a youtube channel organised and my first video is all about mixing vocals using audio compression in your home recording studio.
I only scratch the surface and I think I need to work on my presenting skills but I played it to a musician friend of mine who said he learnt loads about mixing vocals using audio compression - that's the important thing I guess. I keep saying that there's no time and don't explain why. There was not enough time because youtube only let you upload a maximum of 10 minutes at a time and not because my dinner was on and I didn't want to ruin it!
In the video I go through the various hardware emulations, talk about the threshold, ratio, attack and release parameters and the gain reduction meter of Logic Studio 9's built in compressor. How I get my Lead Vocal to sit in the mix. When not to use a spectrum analyser and use your ears!
As I mentioned in the video, we spend 4 hours on audio compression in our mixing and mastering course now here at Garnish School of Sound so if you get the feeling I'm going too fast in the video, I probably am and now you know why!