In this Sonic Academy compression extravaganza, we will show you the full shebang starting with what compression does, the controls, how to apply it, using compression to get effects such as parallel, ducking and the all important side-chaining compression effect.
Learn how to make your own Sound Absorbers for your home studio. Sonic Academy’s Allan McGreevy shows you a cheap and easy fix to help you clean up the sound of your room and improve your listening and mixing experience.
woo hoo i posted first hahahahahaha. watching:D
Phil - You guys are not playing around. The compressors extravaganza videos look pretty sweet. Thank you sir.
I’m off to go watch all of them and pray to God I can keep the disturbing image of Jon multitasking while eating a meatball sandwhich on the porcelain throne out of my head!
I prefer the other Thread - No LOL’s in here :crazy:
excellent! family informed that I’m unavailable this weekend 
[quote]rcorbo (25/06/2010)[hr]Phil - You guys are not playing around. The compressors extravaganza videos look pretty sweet. Thank you sir.
I’m off to go watch all of them and pray to God I can keep the disturbing image of Jon multitasking while eating a meatball sandwhich on the porcelain throne out of my head![/quote]
its won’t happen you know those images are already creeping their way into your mind
really great Tutorial !!
holy **** batman!!! i just opened the folder expecting one or two small videos and was extremely shocked wow guys you’ve upped the game this month.
what with the dub step, progressive house and now the compression and absorbers videos this website is now seriously giving two big middle fingers up to the other “tutorial sites” on the web.
Ha!
And not $6000 either!
yeah we kinda just wanted to get compressors done. its an extremely hard thing to explain tbh.
we all realised we actually didnt know why we where using compressors in the way we where. we studied a lot on this one to try and give the simplest explanation of what they do.
I love compression… its so fundamental to good mixing.
we plan to do the same type of thing with reverb, mixing, synthesis and mastering over the next few months
[quote]phil johnston (26/06/2010)[hr]yeah we kinda just wanted to get compressors done. its an extremely hard thing to explain tbh.
we all realised we actually didnt know why we where using compressors in the way we where. we studied a lot on this one to try and give the simplest explanation of what they do.
I love compression… its so fundamental to good mixing.
we plan to do the same type of thing with reverb, mixing, synthesis and mastering over the next few months[/quote]
Please Phil… Reverb next 
holy cow, here i was thinking we’d get 3-4 videos out of the compression stuff, and i cant even count the list on the dropdown! excellent stuff guys
Just want to big up Sonic Academy they are churning top quality material…Thanks guys got sooooooooooooooooooo much to get thru over the next month or so:D
[quote]phil johnston (26/06/2010)[hr]yeah we kinda just wanted to get compressors done. its an extremely hard thing to explain tbh.
we all realised we actually didnt know why we where using compressors in the way we where. we studied a lot on this one to try and give the simplest explanation of what they do.
I love compression… its so fundamental to good mixing.
we plan to do the same type of thing with reverb, mixing, synthesis and mastering over the next few months[/quote]
wow this is/will be great and gotta say im never unsurprised with what you guys do .
gearing vids to under the hood stuff is great !and the compression vids are a real surprise nice one guys
parallel, ducking… not got a clue what this is… side chain yes… I’m on it… this site is turning out to have a lot of bang for my buck… I like it
[quote]gofunk (26/06/2010)[hr]parallel, ducking… not got a clue what this is… side chain yes… I’m on it… this site is turning out to have a lot of bang for my buck… I like it :D[/quote]
…Parallel ducking - I know there is a joke there somewhere
Also I was also shocked when I saw the size of the Compression folder
…and as ICN said reverb next - pretty please
[quote]slender (26/06/2010)[hr][quote]gofunk (26/06/2010)[hr]parallel, ducking… not got a clue what this is… side chain yes… I’m on it… this site is turning out to have a lot of bang for my buck… I like it :D[/quote]
…Parallel ducking - I know there is a joke there somewhere
Also I was also shocked when I saw the size of the Compression folder
…and as ICN said reverb next - pretty please[/quote]
there is one but its far to sick to post on a forum lol
[quote]jon_fisher (26/06/2010)[hr][quote]slender (26/06/2010)[hr][quote]gofunk (26/06/2010)[hr]parallel, ducking… not got a clue what this is… side chain yes… I’m on it… this site is turning out to have a lot of bang for my buck… I like it :D[/quote]
…Parallel ducking - I know there is a joke there somewhere
Also I was also shocked when I saw the size of the Compression folder
…and as ICN said reverb next - pretty please[/quote]
there is one but its far to sick to post on a forum lol[/quote]
LOL great minds think alike
How many absorbers do I need to make? Just 1? Fill the room with them? Or do I need to cover the whole house in them? The mrs would not be happy!
[quote]Mussi81 (26/06/2010)[hr]How many absorbers do I need to make? Just 1? Fill the room with them? Or do I need to cover the whole house in them? The mrs would not be happy![/quote]
maybe sonic can cover basic placement in the next tutorial/tech tip