I know you work in fl. I assume Fruity limiter and compressor doesn't have these abilities? Ergo, I'd have to use external compressors?

How can i send you messages for help when mastering my beats ?

off topic - any recommendation for headphones for fps gaming?

Michael, without your expert clear timely instruction, I would not even be aware of these excellent polishing techniques. Thanks.

Mikieee 😆

I appreciate the feedback, thank you!

i actually have to agree, and putting all the effort to go down to comments and say something about it really should stand out for your amazing shorter tutorial, really good thank you

And this is why I don't wanna do KZfaqs... ungrateful

yeah man these deep dives give so much understanding of things overall

Me too, it's not obvious until you dive a little deeper. Either way it sounds great!

I'm still not clear what happens to the frequencies out of the range? Are they ignored?

@@aldenfarias4873 Im not quite sure but i think the ammount of compression now depends on the loudness of things inside the filter. Compression is still applied to everything outside the filter too.

@@aldenfarias4873 the frequencies outside the range are still compressed but to a lesser degree. As these frequencies are not triggering any extra compression they will end up being compressed less

@@inthemix oh thanks

I've had a similar experience recently lol

Can you explain what's the difference? I didn't get it even after listening multiple times to what he says :/

@@azymval207 I'll give it a go man. 1:28 is key. The sidechain or detection circuit tells the compressor what part of the frequency spectrum to listen to in order to apply its compression, the other frequencies are ignored (but still compressed, remember that). Another way of thinking of this is, if you don't tell the compressor what part of the frequency spectrum to listen to, it will just listen to everything as equally important. Is that what you want? That may be good sometimes right; other times it can be bad, especially if you've a bass heavy track which has other instruments in mid-to-upper frequencies, like here: 1:08 There's such high peaks/transients in the bass the compressor deals with them first right before it gets to the other parts of the track which also hold importance but are at lower dbs, like the high-hat. It squashes the hell out of it. You can barely hear the high-hat. So tell the compressor through sidechain compression not to listen to the bass so much. Problem solved. Listen to from 2:58 in headphones if you can, the difference, as he toggles between the different states. How is this different from multiband compression? In multiband compression, you can select which parts of the frequency spectrum for the compressor to listen to and apply/not apply compression to for mutiple sections of the frequency range you've defined. With the use of the sidechain compression, everything is still going to be compressed whether you like it or not, but you've the ability to control what parts of the spectrum that the compressor listens to. I hope that helps.