Room Mics Use soft compression to just gently squeeze everything together a little bit. Dance/Hip Hop/Rap Tricks Compress the bass using the kick as a sidechain input. Don’t compress it so much that it causes bad pumping. General Compression Tips It’s a good idea to group up instruments in similar frequency bands such as kick and bass and add a light amount of compression to ‘glue’ them together. Sidechain Compression Tips It is generally best…

Vocal Compression Use a volume rider or automation to minimize the amount of work a compressor needs to perform on a vocal track. Increasing compression will bring vocals forward. Use a moderate ratio like 4:1 along with a fast attack. Sidechain Vocal Tamer The first step in this technique is to create an auxiliary track for the vocals to go to. This track will remain muted but will act as a sidechain input for a…