How to Hear Compression with Vince Welch - Ben Levin

[cafecitoconazucar]

I read a meme that helped me understad compression:
"A compressor is like your mother"
Threshold is the level of volume when your mom tells you to turn down the music.
Ratio is how much you turn it down
Attack is how fast you turn it down
Release is how quick you turn it back up as she walks out the door.

[noahhess]

Imagine going through every track on every song of an album adjusting stuff for every little part. And then doing it again for whatever else you want to change; much respect to the producers of the world

[OGboi]

This is by far the most comprehensive compression tutorial I've found yet.. After all of these mindless tutorials over the years, I would never have guessed that understanding how to HEAR the compression is the first step towards learning how to USE the compression. Absolute gold mine of a channel!

[wak]

This video was a lightbulb moment, i felt pretty confident with compressors, but idk something just happened that made my brain understand alot more.

[joelmedina]

i want ben to sit on my lap and play guitar too

[gummishepardtones]

Such a perfectly succinct explanation and demonstration of how to apply compression, thank-you for the video Vince! And thank-you Ben for sharing this on your channel!

[toomdog]

Little does he know my pants were already off

[lagduck]

Hearing compression and doing it right is still such a skill, demanding a lot of experimentation and experience to learn, but this video is a very good, intuitive starting point. Compressor and EQ are two fundametal sound sculpting effects, but EQ is something probably more visual, intuitive (at least, everyone has some experience with bass/hf tweaking at some boombox/magnitola/anything, even probably multiband graphical EQ), but no one is really dealing too much with compression in everyday life. Also, frequency spectrum analysers/visualisers are much more common/intuitive, than any dynamics vis. And "perfect pitch" is far more common amongst people, than "perfect dynamics sense" (it doesn't even have proper name).

[nxamusicnam]

Y'all just changed my life forever thank you for sharing from Namibia south western Africa...

[russell_szabados]

"Jonesing for attack/release" is an accurate description. Great tutorial, thanks for sharing it.

[HoggerKiller]

Compression will never sound the same to me again. Thank you Vince and Ben! :)

[RiffsU]

I remember, you wrote a song and performed it on berkeley back in the days.. It was something about like being naughty or making love something like that. I remember that was a beautiful piece but I can't find it anywhere.. Where is it Ben? :)

[mikemcneilly]

Thank you so much, you really gave a great in depth and easy to understand lesson.

[TRTSMTT]

Insane. Useful tutorials. There are too many videos of people who don't know what they're actually doing.
Ben, Vince (and Adam for redirecting to this channel which is a lot more useful for me than Adam's channel since I am a guitarist) huge thank you!

[eldraetta]

Awesome video! I like how Vince made sure not to repeat what's already been said on compression on YT.

[MakeWeirdMusic]

Never thought about compression this way. Thanks Vince and Ben!!

[JetNAmplify]

These videos are super helpful for me. these are things ive been doing wrong for like a year

[AlbertoMartinezDelRio]

At last! The definitive video on compression...

[nathanaguilar]

Thanks. I understand compression better now

[JaeyoungChong]

Not gonna lie, by far the most helpful compression video on youtube. I'm a classical musician transitioning into music production and I've been struggling so much with the subtlety of mixing. I hope I get to see more Vince Welch and I'll certainly check out Bent Knees as well.

This might sound like a dumb question, I know what compression does to the audio, but are the musical purposes of using compression other than balancing the dynamics? I've seen compression used in so many ways throughout many pieces I've been listening.