What's Wrong With Stock Plugins? ReaComp

In which I put ReaComp through its paces, and compare it to commercial offerings from FabFilter, Slate Digital, Brainworx and NI/Softube.

Drums played by Bobby Arechiga.

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[DanWorrall]

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[tobsvonmittelstraum]

Dan Worrall is the David Attenborough of audio plugins

[niklassilen]

This video literally made ReaComp better in the latest update. Powerful Dan Worrall. Powerful. :)

[XRaym]

New features of ReaComp in v5.97, thx to this video !
+ add pre-fader feedback detector mode
+ deprecated non-fully-functional AA support, hidden when not used
+ improve ratio/attack/rms slider curves and display precision

[mshaftenberg]

I can't believe I've just spent over 30mins listening to a drum loop and didn't get bored at all :D

[DonSolaris]

BEST compressor tutorial on YouTube, and it's not even a tutorial.

[dlawlis]

“The path of least resistance for anyone with a lot of sound-making tools is to keep making more sounds. The path of discipline is to say: Let’s see how few we can get away with.”
--Brian Eno

[nikirose]

You had me at "spanking the signal fairly hard"

[arthurmee]

A combination of your voice and a steady. drum pattern for more 30 minutes you are inducing some changes in the frequencies of the viewers' brain waves resulting, in a mild hypnotic state. No compression required. Seriously though, being quite new to recording I learnt a lot about compression
Thank you.

[Lewid]

Dan Worrall teaching me more about compressors for free on YouTube, than my entire 3 year music technology college course from a few years ago did.

You're doing us all a great service, Dan.

[bulzei]

Wow! Evidence based mixing. I love it! Really, really nice work. I'm going to recommend this to all the folks who tell me they have a hard time hearing compression, because the repetition, careful level matching, and clear narration really give the listener a chance to experience the effects of the various settings.

[KeenenBlockson]

I've been using Reaper for years, and wow this video made me realize how much I didn't fully understand Reacomp. I always knew that it was a versatile compression engine, and the info here has changed my perspective on the way it works. I feel like I've got a brand new plugin on my hands again! Instant subscribe.

[TheSOLClub]

Exceptional Video. 90% of Engineers we work with don't understand 10% of this. This is a diamond.

[WesHampson]

This was like a lesson in compressing drums in addition to showing the difference between compressors. Thanks!

[deltavistastudio]

REAPER has updated all their plugs to fix these issues now. Thank you Dan for your help!

[NikolajChristensen]

This video should be mandatory for all interested in audio engineering. You know your stuff. Amazing.

[pompeysie]

Amazing. Dan, it would be fantastic if you could release a video outlining the feature sounds of different classic compressors. I'm amazed that you can can just "grab" an 1176 sound from memory. I'd love to have the insight into what you are hearing in these different ones. Keep up the great work.

[sawabhacks]

I am so sad I found this guy this late. He is God of his art. Can't thank enough. Thank you thank you thank you!!!

[Audiomishran]

Man I want this song. I have come back to this video just for the Song and to listen you say "Compression, One of my favourite subjects".

[SivertHenriksen]

Great video Dan! I would love a video where you go more into depth about the different kinds of compressors (VCA/FET/Opto/etc), what they are good for and what to listen for when testing them!