The New York Compression trick（NY压缩秘诀）
节选《The Mixing Engineers Handbook》
One of the little tricks that seems to set New York mixers apart form everyone else is something I call the “New York Compression Trick . “ It seems like every mixer who’s ever mixed in New York City comes away with this maneuver . Even if you don’t mix in NYC , once you try it you just might find yourself using this trick all the time , since it is indeed a useful method to make a rhythm section rock .
以下是我一些NY 混音师上学来的秘诀，我把他叫做“NY压缩秘诀”，好像所有在NY做混音都这样做。如果你没有在NY做过混过音乐（可能NY的MIX在美国很厉害，起码有一个音乐风格叫：NY STYLE(这个是我看《The Mixing Engineers Handbook》了解到的)，那么你可以从这文章中了解到一些NY的COMPRESSOR 秘诀，或者你会发掘到你自己个人的秘诀哦。
Here ‘s the trick:
1) Buss the drums , and maybe even the bass , to a stereo compressor .
把所有的鼓组输出到BUSS，也可以加上BASS，然后用一个STEREO 压缩。
2) Hit the compressor fairly hard , at least 10dB or more if it sounds good.
认真调整合适的压缩，力求完美，压缩最小要到10dB，甚至更多，当然如果声音已经很好了，那么就不用再多了。
3) Return the output of the compressor to a pair of fader inputs on the console .
然后把压缩器输出反送到一对控制器（console）的推子上(这里你可以理解为AUX发送)。
4) Add a pretty good amount of high end (6-10dB at 10KHZ or so) and low end (6-10dB at 100Hz or so) to the compressed signal .
对被压缩过的信号做一些美化：对高频上大约10KHZ的地方提高6到10dB，对于低频大约100HZ提高6－10dB；
5) Now bring the fader levels of the compressor up until it’s tucked just under the present rhythm section mix to where you can just hear it.
现在你推高压缩器的推子，直到在本来的节奏上刚刚好听到压缩反送的声音（那么这里就是先前AUX反送回来的压缩信号）。
The rhythm section will now sound bigger and more controlled without sounding overly compressed.
现在节奏部分会变得更大声，控制更容易了，而且不会听起来，压缩太重的感觉。
这里大家有点类似外国的parallel compressor,（参考HIMHUI的1176真面目）实际上就类似AUX发送COMPRESSOR效果。
[ 本帖最后由 Ying 于 2006-6-3 17:47 编辑 ]