

These are particularly useful if you want to, for example, tighten the low mids of a bass sound without taking away from the high end. Its a type of compression where a particular frequency band (usually specified by the engineer/producer) is compressed rather than the entirety of the audio signal as is often the case with regular compressors. Multiband compression is something which you may find yourself using more and more as you gain experience in DAW’s. In this part of the compression series we are going to look at a few of these different ways compressors can be used to tidy your mix or add interesting effects.

We also talked about how compressors can be used in many different ways, both musically and dynamically. In part one of our compression series we talked about the basic controls on a typical compressor and how to implement these controls to achieve a desired sound.
