[Ardour-Users] Parallel compression - Was OT: bus strain on computer resources

[Paul Winkler]

Maybe these are the Ohlsson sources:
http://bobolhsson.com/bob-says/on-motown/
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/high-end/668960-mixing-techniques-motown-sounds.html#23

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:56 PM, John Rigg <au2 at jrigg.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 07:34:03PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 17:29 +0000, John Rigg wrote:
> > > Early Motown hits. It wasn't used for effect, but to keep the quieter
> > > vocal parts high enough above the tape hiss on their DIY multitrack.
> >
> > Is it used for single instruments and voices only and usually not used
> > for the stereo sum? On old professional recordings stereo sum
> > compression often does "pumping" or at least there are sometimes strange
> > loudness jumps.
> > I read a little bit about “Motown Trick”, “New York Drum Trick”, it
> > seems to be not used for the stereo sum.
>
> When used to reduce tape noise it would have to be applied to individual
> tracks (lead vocals in the example I mentioned) before hitting the tape.
>
> John
>
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