All 5 Types of Compression EXPLAINED 🔥

Did you know there’s 5 different Type of Compression ⁉️ Downwards Compression detects the loud peaks in your audio and reduces 🔥 Multiband Compression Splits your audio into frequency bands ✅ Sidechain Compression uses an outside source for ducking 🔑 Parallel Compression blends your dry signal 🎧 Upwards Compression increases the quietest parts of your audio 💎 Get the McDSP All Access Bundle for the most legendary plugins in the game 😍 #McDSP #AudioEngineer #compression

[chrisbistrishki]

I was expecting the types to be FET, VCA, Opto, Tube, Digital 😅 Still useful for many :)

[thomasw]

Upward compression sometimes is so good, especially for keeping the transients and giving some mojo.
MV2 by Waves is my go to plug-in for that :)

[bassplayingchris]

upwards compression is what most people just call compression. Downwards compression basically means no make up gain. Downwards compression turns the signal down, upwards compression does the same thing, but then you turn up the make up gain, making the quiet parts louder while still decreasing the dynamic range. OTT EXPANDS and compresses in a multiband fashion. Expansion is when the signal is turned up when it crosses the threshold. This is upward expansion, making the signal louder. Similar to compression you can turn down the makeup gain, making the loud parts quieter and increasing the dynamic range.

Multiband is not a type of compression, you could do the same thing with band pass filters and sends and now ive spent too long typing a post i dont really think will be read or matters....

[DeRaNgEdOfficial]

Sculpt is amazing! I use on all my projects.

[gurieofficial]

Thanks for feeding us good knowledge ❤️

[breezyoakk]

Ow man I thought you meant types of compressors. I put my phone away and started counting like VCA, FET, Opto, Vari-Mu and then I watched 😂

[RAILWAY_FILMS]

the TWO types are RMS vs PEAK this video does compare some of the ways you can apply compression.. but confuses applications with types. for example in multi-band compression, you might turn all of the compression bands off besides one band-- technically only regular compression but whether you compress all bands or one band, this is still an APPLICATION, not a kind of compression because you can still choose peak vs rms for each band. all compression is downward. the upward is not compression, its called makeup gain. ducking is a side chain technique where you trigger compression off of a separate sound source. pumping is the opposite of ducking, it is also a technique. Ducking and Pumping don't make sense using RMS detect but you can always try it. the most common use of ducking is to duck background music or noise for an announcer or narrator. ducking bass to kick can create an effect but .. kick + bass can sound awesome so its more common with EDM music, not so much in rock music although I have done it before, but don't because it makes the mix sound a certain way and might cause it to not fit in the genre

[kubolor]

I understand multiband theoretically but I am never sure how to use the plugins

[tribalcowfish]

I don't feel like these ways of categorizing compression makes a lot of sense and seems quite arbitrary to me. You could through any number of other 'types of compression' into this list, for instance RMS or PEAK.

For instance; upwards and downwards compression could be seen as different types of compression envelope, or could also be seen as whether the compression being applied has a positive or negative ratio. The other types of compression you mentioned cannot be categorized in the same way.

Parallels compression, for instance, is a type of signal processing that can be applied to any of the other 4 'compression types' you mentioned. This list should also include compression in series to be complete.

An unrelated side note but I saw a lot of comments talking about types of analog compression, there are actually 6 types for anyone curious; VCA, opto, FET, tube / vari-mu, diode bridge and PWM.

I'm such a massive nerd when it comes to this stuff ahahaha

[ygrabo]

Downwards conpression INCREASES dynamics, and (relatively) boosts the peaks, not attenuates them. What you are thinking of is limiting (compression with zero attack)

[MajestyStudioPro]

Types of compression of 5 ways of using compression. Pronouns and verbs?

[thNumber]

forgot about the 6th mp3 mode 8URFEIGT7R8

[simbeam]

Ott still horrible plugin don't care what people says it's fucking 🚮 way way way too overhyped