Bob Zaod
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My Studio Pro friend back east today, gave me some really good advice about using compression live and it has really made a HUGE difference for me going direct so far. I really need to do it with the band to know for sure though. Sacrificing some dynamics for sustain and fatness is such a tightrope. He is also a Helix expert and gave me a template patch to work from with 2 compressors in it and I am all smiles today playing through my Turbosound array system at gig volume.
Seems to work best when using high gain amps like the ANGL and the Revv Gen Red. Really fattens it up and takes away the buzzy fizziness parts of using high gain. Definitely need to use snapshots as keeping the same comp settings for clean is too much. I don't get folks that say it's cheating. I find it forces me to execute notes and chords in a cleaner way, else it enhances misses and noise.
Such an underrated effect compression is I think. At least for me. I didn't really take any time to understand it I just kind always left default settings in helix which was a HUGE mistake.
Seems to work best when using high gain amps like the ANGL and the Revv Gen Red. Really fattens it up and takes away the buzzy fizziness parts of using high gain. Definitely need to use snapshots as keeping the same comp settings for clean is too much. I don't get folks that say it's cheating. I find it forces me to execute notes and chords in a cleaner way, else it enhances misses and noise.
Such an underrated effect compression is I think. At least for me. I didn't really take any time to understand it I just kind always left default settings in helix which was a HUGE mistake.