GAIN AUTOMATION (the secret sauce of compression)

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Today we're going to talk about one of the biggest industry secrets to getting pro-level compression - gain automation.

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00:00 Intro
01:03 What is Gain Automation?
01:47 Why is it important?
02:10 Example: Vocals
03:34 Example: Organ
05:05 How to do Gain Automation
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[edups]

I have learned more about audio engineering in one week of watching these videos than an entire semester in school for audio engineering.

[testing]

Free... bless you guys man. I'm a professional musician ..and guys these ppl are giving away years and years of hard work for free.. I don't know what to say... bless you guys. Thanks, Sirs.

[RMRsavvy]

Giving away this for free should be a crime in itself. This is gonna help so many logic users. If I could like a video twice, it’d be this one for sure.

[khatumu]

thank you so much for this content-- I can't get over the fact that this is free

[paulreid]

This channel is now my bible. Thank you so much!!

[patrickreece]

"Time slows when you get close to the horizon"

[ZacharyRedFulton]

Not just the secret sauce to compression, but expansion as well — just throwing that out there!

[philcodeca]

I didn’t know you could apply cross fade to all regions at once! Lesson learnt!

[saintpreston]

Amazing video gain staging is how I start every mix now & it has given me the confidence to finally releases my own mixes!

[fasttempofever]

Thank you so much! It's really nice to finally add this fundamental steps to my mixes, didn't know about this until now! Please keep it up with this awesome content, I'm discovering so much new stuff watching your videos!!

[mykelnikiforides]

Brilliant!! Thank you Dylan. I’m learning quite a lot of new things from all your posts. You’ve saved me heaps of time too!!
Very grateful for this information 🙏

[Sajtlik]

I love your voice! It’s so understandable and it doesn’t make me sleepy during tutorial.

[honeyjalafofficial]

Great channel! You teach the things in a very simple manner! Thank you for your contribution!

[mikelo]

In Studio one you have Gain automation lane and just adjust that automation lane without any cutting. Just lane.

[issawen]

If you want better control of the peaks, you can also just throw in the gain plugin in the beginning of your chain and just automate that as you would volume automation!!

[christophrau]

Thanks for infomations on gain automation. A difficult issue here is to "preserve" the "overall expression" of the band and artists in the interaction. A quiet passage should not necessarily have the "same gain level" as the following part in a song, just as it is with the reaction of all other sounds/instruments/singers. The musicians intentionally work with volume controls and pedals. The mix must not destroy the dynamics and expression of the musicians. Musicians may not identify with the song after the gain work. How do you see this quite difficult task for the "studio person".

[Spicyboi]

Fantastic tutorial! I use Logic Pro as well and I’ve been very confused about how gain staging works. I’ve been trying to automate the gain throughout the tracks but it just ended up sounding uneven. This is going to make my life so much easier haha. Thank you for the great content! Keep up the hard work!

[thomasw]

You could use a waves vocal rider, und compress it afterwards, right? The rider would pretty much even out the volume (without coloring the tone), and the desired compression afterwards would give it the tone you want.

[aplanebagel]

thanks for this tips! I've learned something new!

[ElyJaffeMusic]

amazing tutorial! I can't believe this info is free, thank you!!