How to use a Fairchild compressor to saturate the Master Channel

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Like many others, we like to use the #Fairchild compressor on the Master Bus to increase the detail and give an #analog color to our mixes. To start we will select Full Reset and thus reduce the possibility of compression. What we want to achieve is the natural degradation of the analog circuit without the effects for which it has been designed. Full Reset simply reduces a little INPUT GAIN and puts THRESHOLD at the minimum, make a note if you use a model from another developer.

To begin with let's increase INPUT GAIN until the needle begins to show activity. For this we are going to look for the most energetic part of the song. When the needle begins to move we'll reduce the control a couple of measures until it does not move anymore, thus we guarantee an optimal level of input signal and therefore the complete #saturation of the circuit modeled by the manufacturer.

Now we put the plugin in BYPASS quickly and compare the volume, then we use OUTPUT GAIN to match the volume of the plugin with the BYPASS. This step is important because as we are dealing with such a subtle element as saturation we need to make sure that our ears are not deceived by a level change.

Finally we turn off the simulation of the electrical noise.

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