Brian’s Bedroom

As a newbie to recording, you may have heard of compression or even played around with a compressor. However, at first it is quite difficult to understand exactly what all those knobs do. First things first… a compressor essentially limits all signals over a certain threshold value. When it limits these peaks or high volumes, [...]

When mastering, is limiting a good or bad idea? Here are my thoughts… I recently recorded some songs, they sounded fantastic in Ardour but when I mixed then down I found then slightly unsatisfying. Let me explain why… When mastering with JAMin, a limiter is activated by default. Essentially what this does is it takes [...]