Squashing peaks in ableton - drums specifically

SteveDuda'sBoyfriend · Oct 17, 2016

Marsupilami said: ↑

Hi, my guess is you are not dealing with peaks but spikes (short hf burst at the transient section).

As already linked and recommended, I`d go for gclip as a startup.
Not only as a tool but also as a reader (with zoom) to see what is really happening.

Like the very low sub section, spikes do eat a lot of headroom
without contributing anything useful to a mix and a compressor isn`t the right tool in the first place.

The yin/yang aspect of the spike treatment is of
when you bring them down, the lower freq are coming up
and you have a more balanced sound event you may want to compress afterwards.

To back it up with a very good visual representation, I would also recommend s(M)exoscope.
It is sitting permanently jbridged on my master bus without causing any conflict.

S(M)exoscope is also a very helpful tool to check and practice compression
by watching the changes of transient and body when playing with parameters.

Good luck and practice.
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Thanks I've been practicing really hard, I just need to make sure those are 64 bit plugins.

SteveDuda'sBoyfriend · Oct 17, 2016

Marsupilami said: ↑

Hi, my guess is you are not dealing with peaks but spikes (short hf burst at the transient section).

As already linked and recommended, I`d go for gclip as a startup.
Not only as a tool but also as a reader (with zoom) to see what is really happening.

Like the very low sub section, spikes do eat a lot of headroom
without contributing anything useful to a mix and a compressor isn`t the right tool in the first place.

The yin/yang aspect of the spike treatment is of
when you bring them down, the lower freq are coming up
and you have a more balanced sound event you may want to compress afterwards.

To back it up with a very good visual representation, I would also recommend s(M)exoscope.
It is sitting permanently jbridged on my master bus without causing any conflict.

S(M)exoscope is also a very helpful tool to check and practice compression
by watching the changes of transient and body when playing with parameters.

Good luck and practice.
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Hope this does not offend anyone but are there better VSTs to handle this job like s(M)exocope or is this pretty industry standard?

SteveDuda'sBoyfriend · Oct 17, 2016

with g clip I was about to gain 3-4 db of headroom with the sample sounding exactly the same! sweet

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