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Opto compression on bass

Opto compression on bass

- [Mixer] Now in this world, there are classic pairings. Champagne and oysters, you know, burger and a beer. And there's the LA-2A and bass. Now, this particular song does not have an acoustic bass in it, but I have a synth bass here that I really love that's really going to benefit from a little bit of opto tube compressional. Let's take a listen to this profit bass. That's why it says probass. (synth bass without effect playing) Okay. So here's the deal. We've got a little side chain compression happening on there that's ducking this thing pretty good, but we are missing some presence. Now we've got a little decapitator action on here, just giving us some tape style saturation but let's grab an LA-2A. I'm going to use the gray UAD emulation. That's probably my favorite, and it's got a really nice character to it. And what we're going to get here is a little bit of compression, which is fun. And by the way, this…

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