Fair enough! So in one sense, you can pigeon-hole your mastering engineer but doing a part of their job for them. Why is that? Because they have less room to work with when the mix has already by compressed. CONSĪ lot of mastering engineers prefer to work on an uncompressed mix down. Now, if you mix into a compressor, you can find ways to work around this issue with volume automation, EQ, multi-band compression, etc. Therefore the snare gets quieter while the rest stays at the same volume. This happens because the mix will hit a limiter in the mastering stage, and the snare drum transient that was poking out gets squashed, while the rest of the mix stays where it was. For instance, a common problem between mix and master is the snare drum disappearing. Secondly, you can use a mix bus compressor while mixing to get a sense of how the mix will shift during mastering. By gently decreasing the dynamic range on the mix, you start to feel a sense of unity. As you're mixing, you may find that the instruments just feel too separated and don't work together to support the overall sound. The main benefit for using a mix bus compressor is that it tends to "glue" the mix together.
Actually, I have two! Let's dive into some of the pros and cons of mix bus compression, and a few different ways you can use it. There are many mixed opinions on this subject, but I gotta say, I'm a fan of having a compressor on my mix bus.
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