Compressors are great. Why not have two?

In this puremix.net exclusive, award-winning engineer, Fab Dupont, explains how to use serial compression to sculpt the dynamics of your tracks in ways that a single compressor can not.

Watch as Fab Dupont:

• Explains how to use an 1176 and LA2A in serial to tame peaks in a lead vocal and control the body of the sound
• Swaps the order to show the unique characteristics of each compressor next to each other
• Demonstrates how to achieve the same results from stock compressors found in any DAW
• Shows how compressors can distort when their release time is too fast
• Uses serial compression on a bass guitar to tame peaks and anchor the dynamics to lift the excitement of the track
• Discusses the importance of gain matching

Learn how to use serial compression without over-compressing from Fab Dupont. Only on puremix.net