So I don't have to have my speakers blast at me everytime I put a compressor on something and the default is set to auto gain etc?

--- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, roman pirie <romanp@x> wrote: > So I don't have to have my speakers blast at me everytime I put a compressor > on something and the default is set to auto gain etc? I presume you mean so that auto gain is off when you insert the compressor as opposed to "Save setting as" (in the drop down menu just to the right of the bypass switch). The latter won't solve your problem, you still need to load the compressor before loading your default. I'm not sure you can do this so I'd suggest either A) Stop the sequencer before inserting the compressor, turn off auto gain and start the sequencer again B) Record your tracks louder in the first place so that the gain make up is not so drastic. Compress mildly (analogue) on recording and then a bit more when mixing in Logic. It sounds like B is worth investigating. Unless your track absolutely needs to have a wide dynamic (in which case why compress anyway?), I think it is always a good idea to get as much level as possible at the A/D stage. I find the best way to do this is to use a compressor at the analogue stage. Without this I find myself having to either record with too much headroom or trashing some good takes that unexpectedly clip. PT www.petethomas.co.uk

I'll rephrase my question to make it simpler. Can I save the default setting so when I insert a compressor it has the settings that I have saved. All I would have to do is have the threshold set to max and there would be no compression.