When most listeners think of audio compression, they imagine a single gate that trims peaks across the entire sonic field. Multiband compression, by contrast, slices the mix into discrete spectral ...

The multiband compressor sits quietly beside the classic VCA or FET units on most digital consoles, yet its influence on contemporary sound design is far from marginal. Rather than treating a track as ...

Regular compression can be hard enough to get your head around, so you'd be forgiven for struggling to master its more complex counterpart, multiband compression. Multiband compressors split the ...

— With four crossover and two floating bands plus a sidechain feature, Waves C6 is an essential sound-shaping plug-in for studio, live sound and post production — KNOXVILLE, TN, September 21, 2010 — ...

Multiband compression can be an extremely useful tool, giving you the option to add different levels of compression to different frequency bands. However, if you don’t know what you’re doing, it can ...