compression

.aa - week six.

This week I have had a play with some drum loops in a compressor. What I like about putting drum loops through compression is it gives you a nice handle on the duration of the small samples. In two examples below you can hear how the snare, for example, has changed from a very short and 'punchy' sound, to a much longer event.

beat1.2.before.mp3 | beat1.2.mp3


Here's another compressed beat.

beat2.mp3


I also ran some spoken-word vocal recording's through compression, and as expected the compressor makes the audio sound like its come from the radio.

77before.mp3 | 77after.mp3

.sources.

Grice, David 08.04.08, “Outside the square (Part 3),” Lecture of EMU, Adelaide University.

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