Can I rely on it or should I always set my own release time? what are you preferences on the mixbus comp?
Auto-Release on my ssl comp clone.
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Backe
Space Cowboy
the SSL comp on the masterbus is a no-brainer! for metal, set attack and release to minimum, and for mellower productions, set release (and perhaps attack aswell) a couple of notches up, like 0.3 or whatever. metal, ratio 4:1 and for mellower shit 2:1, i do not touch any other knobs except threshold and make-up, but that is song-dependant.
BLUElightCory
Member
Release time settings should generally be dependent on the material being compressed - for some material shorter release times are appropriate (I like short release times on mixes personally) but sometimes a longer release is preferable. Use your ears and use the setting that sounds best with the song you're working with.
Attack times are simple - fast/short attack times yield smoother results with less transients, slow/long attack times yield punchier results with more transients.
Attack times are simple - fast/short attack times yield smoother results with less transients, slow/long attack times yield punchier results with more transients.
Release and attack to minimum? That seems like a really hard compression setting for the mixbus. I would use that for parallel compression. I have it usually at 30ms attack and 1s release, only compressing 2db's.
So why is there a Auto-Release mode at all?
Ermz
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Auto-Release works in a program dependent manner. My GSSL is almost always set to this release setting. To me it glues the mix the best way without too much noticeable pumping as you will get when doing high GR on 100ms release.
Andy Wallace go-to settings on the unit are 30 attack, 4:1 ratio, Auto-Rel. Ditto for me.
Andy Wallace go-to settings on the unit are 30 attack, 4:1 ratio, Auto-Rel. Ditto for me.
Ermz
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Yeah I spent the better part of a year trying all kinds of stuff but always came back to that setting. It just holds the mix together the most. Anything lower than 30ms and you're starting to really affect transients in a negative way, unless you just want to touch the peaks of the mix a little bit it just doesn't work. Certainly not when doing 6 to 8dB GR.
crillemannen
Member
+1 , great setting. I actually tried 10:1 ratio on my last project, liked it very much, but the compressor just touched the mix, 0.5-1db GR
Backe
Space Cowboy
Yeah, well... It works when you only let it touch the mix slightly, to even out peaks and make the snare sit a little better. I'm more into multibanding for the deeper compression, the Waves LinMB in combination with ozone works awesome. I also use PSP Mixsaturator on the masterbus, used in moderation it can help to 'squash' the mix a fair amount.
I only use the mixsaturator on guitars. I'm using tube saturator (wave arts) on my master chain though. Pretty funy that the 4:1/30ms/auto-release was my favourite so far. I'm just taking back 1-2 db's and I love how my ssl clone sounds. Waves SSL Comp is a joke in comparison. Crillemannen has the same unit, still liking it? It sounds so much more open and is pumping in a way more pleasant way.
crillemannen
Member
I still like it, but as i said before it was not a night and day difference. Waves SSL still sounds great. Although the hardware make up gain is cleaner and it don't shrink the stereo field as the Waves does. So the hardware sounds better but a 800 difference?? That a question you need to ask yourself.
Ermz
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I paid 600 AUD 
The difference wasn't huge to me either. The Waves still holds up well. It was mostly on the rounding and pumping that the hardware won out. Gives it a bit more of that analogue 'blanket'. When you do high GR with the plug-in your attacks get really really peaky.
The difference wasn't huge to me either. The Waves still holds up well. It was mostly on the rounding and pumping that the hardware won out. Gives it a bit more of that analogue 'blanket'. When you do high GR with the plug-in your attacks get really really peaky.
acappa
Alex Cappa TMF Studios
yannm
New Metal Member
crillemannen
Member
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/primeanalog . Don't remember he's webadress. Perhaps Lasse can chim in.
It was quite a difference for me. Do you guys use the ssl comp for other stuff than mixbus-compression?
Ermz
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Nope, always mix bus. I use the plug-in version for drum parallel comp though. Too much of a hassle to print and align the real thing.
Yeah I think so. Do you prefer the ssl comp plug over the 1176 for parallel compression on drums?
