<logic@...> wrote: >Do you use compression on your main mix? What settings >can I start with to practice... what things should I keep in >mind doin this? I want to create more 'bounce' in my mixes >by using overall-compression. I never put any fx on the stereo 2mix bus. I save that for mastering. The advantage to this is that you will have a "raw" mix from whence to work from during mastering. Sometimes when I'm presented with all the mixes from somebody else for me to master, and they have already done some of this already - and it's rarely a good thing. If I'm doing a kind of "demo" mix for somebody to hear, I will indeed do some kind of pseudo-mastering to give it more polish, but this most certainly IS a demo mix. However, there's a potentially valid method whereby some kind of compression is placed on the 2mix which might influence the way you mix in the first place. But I very often find that compression sounds best on material that doesn't need it. That's kind of a hard one to understand, but some folks will RELY on compression to kind of "smooth" out their uneven mixes. It's always better to perfect the mix first. But if it sounds good, it is good. f-erenc szabo, smarty pants Z+E+R+O+B+E+A+T "NOW POWERED BY THE MIRACLE OF THE TRANSISTOR!" <http://home.goodmedia.com/~zerobeat>