Greg: everyone's saying you shouldn't use the sends for compression so your idea with driving up the input is right. John Fioravanti, Jr., ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg Brayton <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:33 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Compression Ah I think I see, but then the track you want compressed needs to have the out put set to the compressed bus? Not have the aux send of that bus just inabled on that track and use the aux send volume for how much compression you hear? That's what I have done, used a compresser vbus say on aux 2 enabled the send and turned the send up abit. Sounded like I was getting more compression. But now I'm thinking I should send tracks to one bus with the compresser on it, and work with input gain to drive the compresser. Could I be right with this idea? http://www.gbrayton.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Gordon Kent To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 11:30 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Compression You can certainly put compression on busses. I often will have 8 background vocal tracks assigned to a bus and just add some compression to the whole thing. Gord ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg Brayton To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 8:19 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Compression Just to make sure I understand. You only put compression on individual tracks? Never use the busses? I thought I was getting somewhere when I had a separate bus for compression and would use that on certain tracks. I was probably just turning the volume up and down. But when I've tried it on single tracks, I can't seem to find anyway in the track inspecter to control the compresser. It's been awhile, but it seems like my only options were the presets. I'm using sonar four though. http://www.gbrayton.com ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq