From the course: Tips and Tricks for Modern Producers

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Multiband expansion

Multiband expansion

- [Instructor] One more thing I wanted to take a look at here with multi-band compression and expansion is the mixed bus. Very commonplace to use these techniques. So let's open up an instance of Pro-MB. And I am partial to Pro-MB for the workflow, But there are a lot of different plugins out there that you can use. We're getting a little noise by the way from some of the analog model plugins that we're using. That's okay. No worries. So what I'm going to do here is I'm going to use a little bit of compression. Multi-band compression in the mids. Just to see how that feels. We already pushed the mids a little bit. But let's see if we can get a little bit more focus. ♪ Come dance with me ♪ ♪ On the land and in the sea ♪ ♪ Time to let your body ♪ - [Instructor] So a nice starting point sometimes is to use about a dB or so of compression. And then make up for it using the makeup gain with the output trim. ♪ Come…

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