{"id":166,"date":"2013-03-12T01:03:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T07:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2013-03-12T02:06:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T08:06:22","slug":"cool-mixer-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"cool mixer trick"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I got my PhD in mixology today, and then some. Ian Freeman of Free Talk Live <\/a>walked me through setting up a mix-minus with the new mixer and the Comrex and Audio Cactus (blog post on all that coming soon.) Then I read the whole manual. Then I got to try a trick I’ve only heard about before, but never tried, since this is the first mixer I’ve owned that has a built-in compressor for each channel.<\/p>\n

Two compressors in series using half the ratio sound better than one compressor with a higher ratio. Try turning the ratio down on your outboard compressor\/pre-amp<\/a> to half what it is now, then turn the compressor knob on the Behringer <\/a>up to two or three (I don’t think the numbers on it are strict correlations to ratios, i.e. setting it on 3 seems to give a ratio of about 2:1.)<\/p>\n

Check it out if you’re not doing this yet. It sounds creamy.<\/p>\n

Before I got this mixer, I was using a 4:1 ratio on my outboard tube pre-amp compressor. Now I’m using a 2:1 ratio on the outboard tube pre-amp compressor, and setting the compressor knob on the Behringer on 3. Sounds better than just the 4:1 ratio on my outboard tube pre-amp compressor did through the old mixer. (Also the Behringer has less noise than my old Alesis, and the Alesis had no compression in it.)<\/p>\n

I’m not using compression on the other tracks obviously (Comrex, Audio Cactus), only on track one, the one my mic is plugged into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got my PhD in mixology today, and then some. Ian Freeman of Free Talk Live walked me through setting up a mix-minus with the new mixer and the Comrex and Audio Cactus (blog post on all that coming soon.) Then I read the whole manual. Then I got to try a trick I’ve only … Continue reading “cool mixer trick”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-amps","category-radiooooooo","tag-compression-audio-trix","hfeed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}