If you’ve ever heard of engineers using mix buss compression to “glue” their tracks together but have no idea what that means or how to do it – this video is for you.
But many people mis-use mix buss compression and it actually makes their mix WORSE with it on, not better.
Today I’ll break down my exact settings for using mix buss compression the right way so you get a punchier, more exciting, but still natural sounding mix!
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My name is Graham Cochrane and I'm the founder of The Recording Revolution, one of the world's most loved audio recording and mixing blogs with over 200,000 readers each month. 
Man I’m so glad to see this because I use that same comp. on my mix buss all the time, and just like you showed. don’t know where I learned that but it’s good right ? Thanks for the help over the yrs Graham your so kind to do this for free and I hope new and experienced engineers are taking full advantage of what you offer them ,knowledge is King in this biz Rex
Would making the release time longer while keeping the attack short work too? I did that on a few tracks recently and I liked how the finished mix sounded.
A great tutorial for newbie music producers. I use this mix buss glue method in my mixes and get good results.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
From just the short section, really love that tune, especially the last lyrics “six strings and me.” Very cool.
Hey John – The song is called “Six Strings & Me” off of Redwood Honey’s first record “Wandering Mind” released on Friday
Thanks a lot for your advices dear Graham, but I am still planning to start a little home studio, we keep in touch then.
What if the mix increases during the process of mixing your drum, guitar, Etc.after you insert the mix buss compressor, do you have to open the mix buss compressor to die down the threshold to balance your whole mix? Or you just leave it like that in the first settings before mixing?
Yeah, you might need to adjust the threshold near the end of the mix.
When you master songs, do you avoid adding additional compression since you already applied it during the mixing stage? Or do you still use another compressor?
You add compressors if it is needed. In general, stacking compressors is not actually a bad thing, quite a lot of people do that. And usually you would use different compressor with slightly different settings. For example, you can set up one compressor to control overall dynamics a bit. And set up another compressor just to slightly cut out very loudest peaks in certain region of the song.
Thanks for the info! That was very helpful.
No. I just add compression if I feel it needs it. If not, no reason to add any. And this just takes time to learn when a song needs compression or not.