It makes sense mixing with the stuff enabled so you get to hear something close to the end result, but on the other hand I have experienced that it's sometimes really disorienting to do that, because when there's only 1-2 elements playing, they get really loud, but when there's more stuff going on, everything is quiet again.
but for personal projects I think it's fine.ĭoes this mean that you have both the compressor take the peaks down -3db and then also the limiter to take another -3db off the compressor's output? obviously if you're doing a big album for a label and you're getting everything professionally mixed and mastered then this is a different story and you'd take a different approach. i find that when making beats or techno it can help as the compressor is used musically in these genres, and it makes sense to keep it on the master if you want to hear what it sounds like when it's finished. though it's more of a limiterĪbleton glue compressor will do in a flash as well (i'm assuming it's the same as cytomic 'the glue' vst)Īs for when i use compressors, at uni they taught us to mix with a compressor and limiter on the master bus and to aim for about -3db of reduction at each stage. unfortunately you would have just missed their summer sale.
I really like the softube tubetech compressor and the FET one for different reasons.