Compression Settings For Cymbals Plus You Can

Gary is a devoted Logic and Ableton user, but he also dabbles in Cubase, FL Studio, Studio One and esoteric sound design tools, such as MaxMSP and CSound.

You can either apply mastering to your song on the mastering output, orr you can export out your song and then pull it back into FL Studio as an audio track and then master the stereo audio track.

This cuts out any inaudible frequencies that the human ear cant hear and take up valuable headroom in the mix.

I would recommend using Maximus as its features are more advanced.

How Maximus works is that you have three bands (Low, Mid, High) where you can set the frequency range for each, and then also a single band master compressor on the effect.

Compression Settings For Cymbals Plus You Can

This gives you added control over your audio through the frequency range, plus you can gel the bands together with the single band master compressor.

So decide where you want the band splits to be by soloing each band and then moving over to the right view to adjust the frequency amount.

So tailor the amount of gain for each band, plus the Attack and release times.

What I find really cool is that you can even draw in unique threshold curves in the graph.

Its actually very easy setting the threshold this way on the graph.

And then for the High band, I dont apply compression, just gain for a bit more high-end detail in the track.

Just apply a subtle compression here to help even out the compression on the track.

With the threshold, you have two modes: Mode A or Mode B: and you can choose what percentage of the mode you want to add by moving the dial left or right from the center.

So only use this if you find you need to do some EQ adjustments after the compression.

You can either use the algorithmic Fruity Reeverb2, or the convolution Fruity Convolver reverb if you want to use a real space.

This will maximize the perceived volume of the whole mix, plus help prevent any clipping on your master output.

Set the output to -0.1dB to stop it from going over 0 dB, and then increase the Gain to maximize the overall perceived level of your song.

So, for example, lets say youre mixing a whole album and want to apply the same mastering settings across the album, then you can use this technique.

What you do is you go to the drop-down arrow on the top left of the Mixer window, then go to File Open Save Mixer State as.

You can also drag and drop these presets from the browser onto the master output channel.

Choose your format.

Probably the best is to choose a lossless format such as WAV.

Expand the quality section, and make sure to enable Dithering and HQ (High Quality) for all plugins to get the best audio results.