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Instrument Settings
This section is designed to get you started with the NanoCompressor by giving some
sample settings. These are merely suggested settings, experiment and find your own
once you begin to hear what the NanoCompressor does to your sound.
Vocal Limiting
Vocalists tend to be one of the most dynamic recording challenges in any studio or
stage. Even though a singer may go from a whisper to a scream during the course of
a song, it's the engineer's job to keep the vocal's level in line with the rest of the
ensemble. You can do this by setting the compressor with a high ratio and a high
threshold. This way, softer sections will go by uncompressed, and louder peaks will
be kept under control.
• Threshold set so that the loudest sections get around -6 of reduction(usually
around 3 o'clock)
• Ratio set for 6:1
• Knee set for Soft
• Peak/RMS set for RMS
The Threshold should be set so that loud sections get compressed around 6dB and
quiet passages get no compression at all.
Vocal Compression and Spoken Word
In other cases, you may want to compress the entire dynamic range of a vocal . This
is typical of pop vocals and voiceovers for radio commercials. Whenever there is
signal, there is some compression taking place; just barely on the soft passages, and
up to 12 dB of reduction during loud passages.
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Threshold set so that one REDUCTION LED (-1 dB) lights during the softest
passages with signal (usually around 11 o'clock)
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Ratio set for 2:1
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Peak/RMS set to Peak
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Attack set to 0.1 ms (7 o'clock)
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Release set between 10 and 12 o'clock (100 ms.)
•
Raise output to compensate for gain reduction
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