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Essential Compression Techniques for Pro Tools

This is a basic but complete course to introduce beginners and improvers to compression techniques in Pro Tools. The course covers all commonly-used professional techniques and the student will achieve a full knowledge comparable with the requirements of a professional music producer or sound engineer.

Students who are already advanced in their knowledge and skills will find the course useful to fill in any gaps they might have in their experience.

Course components are relevant to other digital audio workstation compressors, to third-party compression plug-ins, and to hardware compressors as many of the concepts, techniques and operational methods are similar or the same.

Course content

The course covers the operation of the Avid Dynamics III Compressor/Limiter, covering the following...

  • Phase invert
  • Input and output meters
  • Compression ratio
  • Threshold
  • Attack
  • Release
  • Knee
  • Gain
  • Stereo link/unlink
  • Side chain filters: bell, shelf, HF frequency, LF frequency
  • External side chain input (key input)
  • Gain reduction meter
  • Graphical display

Demonstrations

Demonstrations are given on a variety of audio material including...

  • Female vocal
  • Male vocal
  • Speech
  • Acoustic guitar
  • Electric guitar
  • Bass guitar
  • Snare drum
  • Kick drum
  • Full drum set
  • Piano
  • Full mix

Course materials

The course is delivered in video format with detailed audio demonstrations. All audio files are available for download. The course is also provided in HTML format with embedded audio. All materials are downloadable to keep permanently.

Student support

Students of this course are entitled to two years' access to our Student Advice Team to ask any questions directly concerning the topics of the course.

Requirements

Equipment and software:

  • Avid Pro Tools (any recent version)
  • Audio interface with two or more microphone inputs and phantom power
  • Headphone or loudspeaker monitoring

Essential Compression Techniques for Pro Tools

Essential Compression Techniques for Pro Tools

COURSE CONTENT

  • 2 hours video tutorials
  • 48 WAV audio files
  • HTML version with embedded audio

$49.00

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IN DETAIL

This is a basic but complete course to introduce beginners and improvers to compression techniques in Pro Tools. The course covers all commonly-used professional techniques and the student will achieve a full knowledge comparable with the requirements of a professional music producer or sound engineer.

Students who are already advanced in their knowledge and skills will find the course useful to fill in any gaps they might have in their experience.

Course components are relevant to other digital audio workstation compressors, to third-party compression plug-ins, and to hardware compressors as many of the concepts, techniques and operational methods are similar or the same.

Course content

The course covers the operation of the Avid Dynamics III Compressor/Limiter, covering the following...

  • Phase invert
  • Input and output meters
  • Compression ratio
  • Threshold
  • Attack
  • Release
  • Knee
  • Gain
  • Stereo link/unlink
  • Side chain filters: bell, shelf, HF frequency, LF frequency
  • External side chain input (key input)
  • Gain reduction meter
  • Graphical display

Demonstrations

Demonstrations are given on a variety of audio material including...

  • Female vocal
  • Male vocal
  • Speech
  • Acoustic guitar
  • Electric guitar
  • Bass guitar
  • Snare drum
  • Kick drum
  • Full drum set
  • Piano
  • Full mix

Course materials

The course is delivered in video format with detailed audio demonstrations. All audio files are available for download. The course is also provided in HTML format with embedded audio. All materials are downloadable to keep permanently.

Student support

Students of this course are entitled to two years' access to our Student Advice Team to ask any questions directly concerning the topics of the course.

Requirements

Equipment and software:

  • Avid Pro Tools (any recent version)
  • Audio interface with two or more microphone inputs and phantom power
  • Headphone or loudspeaker monitoring