Perfect timing! I've got a pieces I'm working on right now that has this problem that your demo will solve! Neat! Thanks much. And thanks always for your guides. Jewel

Perfect timing Chris, well nearly, I just spent some time setting my VSTDynamics compressor on my latest project but will redo now using your methods! Thanks a lot!

Ta, Chris. You have a natural, concise way of teaching. Bless you.

@mixdownonline

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Thanks a lot. You saved one of my vocal track that was difficult to manage. Very good trick.

Great tip as always Chris! Thank you so much! I see mylself using Cubase stock plugins more and more. My last discovery was Reverence. It's incredible how good this blendes orchestral sounds, how versatile it is and how I've underated it all this time.

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

Yes, Reverence is awesome, on of the great Cubase plugins!

@RogerBadgerDSFlyer

Жыл бұрын

+1 for Reverence! I’ve just begun to tap into what it has. Awesome for orchestral, like you said 👍

Cubase has so many great HiEnd effects... you don´t need thirdparty stuff. Great times... I built an effects chain with Tube and Vintage Compressors that works just same as my Waves 1176 + La2a chain - these are minimal nuances that are not audible in the song context with other tracks. YES: learn to use Cubase stock plugins. ❤

I’ve been using cubase for a couple of years now and never even considered this knob. Hell, i’m going to have to change all my old mixes now!

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

This is great Chris. Thank you Thank you

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Very clear and so useful. Thank you!!

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Thanks Chris, you have unlocked so many Cubase mysterys for me over the years.

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

That's great! I'm glad to have helped!

Nice video !👌😘

A love song to a Roswell mic? I love it!

Again another video from a brilliant engineer. Thanks Chris

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Thanks Chris for a new video. It is similar like using a limiter and a compressor. Cheers and keep n with your videos.

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

Will do, thanks for watching!

Thanks you so much for this tutorial

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Thank you Chris!

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Thank you very much, Mr Chris. 🙏💎

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Great Sir

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Thanks Chris

@mixdownonline

3 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

❤❤❤very very helpful

@mixdownonline

5 ай бұрын

Happy to hear that!

Top!

Another great video Chris. It just highlights that when you know what the different parameters actually do and how they can be applied to a track, you can get a great sound and mix from stock plugins instead of spending significant amounts of dollars on more "fancy" third party plugins. Thank you for sharing.

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

You're more than welcome!

@bmh770

Жыл бұрын

This helped me too.. I only use cubase ai 12 stock for everything at the moment as its all I can afford. Very limited but still good for the kind of music I create... I'm only just starting out so I brought a steinberg ur44c that also has a nice plugin included for free. Plus guitar effects I don't use as I don't play a instrument.. just having fun.. that's for the info

Great vid. I wish Steinberg team made an option to have at least 2 compressors in the channel strip. Channel strip has a great potential if made more flexible.

@adrianl5899

Жыл бұрын

For very gentle compression after peaks have been dealt with by a compressor, using Magneto or one of the other sat. options might work sometimes. Not the same as having 2 compressors available though, and maybe in future releases the channel strip will become even more flexible (choose how many of each module type you want in the available slots rather than having one slot dedicated to a function as is currently the case).

@rthyhmmemory11

Жыл бұрын

Just use the inserts...you can change the order of the channel strip from pre to post the inserts so you have all options

@krapenitskiy

Жыл бұрын

@@rthyhmmemory11Man, you're starting the obvious. In that case, the whole point of the rack is useless. I'm talking about the visual convenience of the rack and it's limited features so far. Not that I can't live without the rack. I just don't use it as often because of its limitations.

Maestro!

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

:-) Thanks!

Echoing all the preceding comments also Chris. I think you and Dom have collectively touched on a great point overall regarding stock Cubase plugins. My workflow has definitely changed over my last two albums for sure. It feels like I've just gotten to know Cubase a lot better thank to Greg, Dom and yourself : ) by the way the Mini K 67 vocals are sweet as well as random..lol [Rex right?]

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Lloyd for sharing your experience watching my and Don's videos :-) Yes, that is Rex singing!

This is awesome, Chris! I've pretty much given up on Waves since they continually expect you to feed them money to keep the plugins that I bought! To keep working.

@jeremythornton433

Жыл бұрын

Also, how do you have the 2 compressors set up in your vocal chain?

Thanks for another great video Chris. Quick question. When I use Cubase compressor to duck either vocal reverb or delay (triggered by dry vocal track). Should I use RMS or PEAK for that task? Thank you

Interesting compressor tactic! Is the signal from the first comp fed into the second comp?

Cubase es el mejor Daw por lejos. No entiendo como Protools sigue siendo el estándar de la industria.

smart !!

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

I try!

A really great and short tutorial, but Chris, you missed the compressor hold knob :))

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

I didn't miss it, I just rarely use this knob to be honest, not very useful for the vocal comp technique I shared to be honest! :-)

Nice tip using two compressors for different purposes.

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like it!

Hello! I have a question, I have a Mac mini M2 and I'm using Cubase 13 pro, and I want to use an apollo twin X sound card for recording input and an RME ADI 2 Dac FS for output to use the best converter. Thank you so much

hey, Chris, what type of compression does Voxcomp do? On vocals I usually place it first then add the stock compressor after it to do a little bit.

Acoustic panel build chris! Lol... dude took me 3 4 months to solo build eight 4×2 6" panels and two 4x4 6" clouds... 7:49

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

Lol, but these are my temporary panel, I will build good looking ones from the panels I already have :-)

Excuse me Mr. Kris, I am a beginner in learning the world of recording and I really admire you 🤟. I'm in trouble, why is my (supervision) color black?. The meter is really my benchmark in learning mixing, I see yours is yellow. thank you i hope you can help me find this answer, greetings i'm from Indonesia.

I've been wondering what that analysis knob does. Now I know.

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

There you go :-)!

Thank you Chris, this is a great tip, I always dismissed this peak/RMS feature because I'm using parallel compression. Maybe this trick can achieve better results? What's your take on this?

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

That's a good question. For parallel compression, since there's lots of gain reduction on the parallel compressor, not sure it makes a huge difference to be honest

@pr4vus.studios

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I guess the more tools/techniques we have at our disposal, the better!

specially Cubase Stocks are sooo lit ...

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

So true

@Y42

Жыл бұрын

@@mixdownonline the multi-band compression with the individual bands is such a great tool - specially for everything modern! my customers LOVE it ❤️ all hail steinberg!! 🙇‍♂️

How do you load another compressor?

My english is not so good, but... how can you explain why I can understand almost all that you tell in your videos? :)

Clarity is a good thing!

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

It sure is!

Isn’t the whole point of a compressor to work on the RMS and not the peaks? Surely if you set it to peak it is just acting like a limiter no?

Question, I'm a newbie with recording. I'm just using compression as an insert. is that ok. will it get recorded in the mix. or do I have to change something.

@adrianl5899

Жыл бұрын

Hi Teddy, compressors (or any plugin) used as an insert on an input channel are recorded (ie. you are committing to the sound as impacted by the plugin). Most newbies (and plenty of experienced people) record 'clean' in case they, for example, overcompress the recording. Chris has a video called 'Recording with plugins in Cubase like analog gear' which delves into this. Hope that helps.

@66fitton

Жыл бұрын

If you are using Cubase, any inserts you have on your tracks will be there when you export a mix. Unless you have them bypassed when you export your mix. Simple as that. Cheers

@TeddyMcCready

Жыл бұрын

@@adrianl5899 WOW ! this is very helpful. thank you so much my friend

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

Nothing more to add :-) Here's the video Adrian is reffering to kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZHZ8uKWEqrKwqrA.html

@TeddyMcCready

Жыл бұрын

@@mixdownonline thank you Chris.

Well consider me no longer confused 😉👍......i still need to spend more time with the stock plugs 😏

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thanks for watching!

Y en un redoblante?

@mixdownonline

Жыл бұрын

I don't know what that means, sorry

@leonardobucci6801

Жыл бұрын

@@mixdownonline and the same technique in a snare?

@adrianl5899

Жыл бұрын

When compressing transient material such as drums, you can choose 'peak' mode on the Cubase Standard Compressor. Peak mode is for transient/percussive material. I would try a single compressor and experiment with attack/release/ratio to even out a drummer's hits. The Cubase Vintage Compressor may also be a good option.