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Combining two processors for the perfect sound

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Combining two processors for the perfect sound

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- [Narrator] I'd like to cover two topics in this movie under general technique number three, and that is the cautionary tale of too much compression resulting in what's called breathing or pumping. If somebody tells you your mix is pumping too much, that means you've probably over compressed it, and I have here a setting which is just horrendous, but it demonstrates easily on a whole program material what pumping and breathing sounds like. Listen. This is normal. ("Freedom" by Allen Stone) Again, we're using Allen Stone's Freedom. Now here comes the pumping and breathing, listen. ("Freedom" by Allen Stone) You hear this a lot in FM radio DJ microphones. Now this is obviously distorting it quite a bit as well, but listen to the breathing effect. ("Freedom" by Allen Stone) It's just crushing it and then letting it go, listen. ("Freedom" by Allen Stone) Let's do it now just on the drums so it's less. (drums beating) Maybe we'll add a piano in there too. (drums beating) Bass. (bass…

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