GuyJames
Inspired
I'm learning so much about tone sculpting with the Fractal products. Recently I was revisiting some of my favorite presets to apply my new understanding of eq I've been learning to see how some of these presets are made but the one elephant in the room that still gets me is compression. I've always just used compression as a transparent effect in front of the amp which is probably the most common way but with Fractal having so many different types of compressors it took me a minute to research how to get even that basic transparent setting. With that said, one of my favorite presets is the Limelight preset and it uses a compressor after the amp and delay too. I experimented turning it on and off and it does a real nice job of smoothing out the tone but it doesn't darken or brighten, very cool!
I'm going to attach a few screenshots. Would anyone who has a great understanding of compression like to explain in plain English what's going on here and what parameters are creating this wonderful setting. I should dig into the manual on the compressor block in the meantime.
Limelight Preset:
My personal Settings for Comp before the amp as a transparent setting:
I'm going to attach a few screenshots. Would anyone who has a great understanding of compression like to explain in plain English what's going on here and what parameters are creating this wonderful setting. I should dig into the manual on the compressor block in the meantime.
Limelight Preset:
My personal Settings for Comp before the amp as a transparent setting: