External Bus Compressor Routing question

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External Bus Compressor Routing question

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Hi guys,

i recently invested in a nice LaChapell pre-amp and a Dual Vandergraph Compressor from Shadow Hills. I've been very happy with these great pieces of gear for recording vocals and acoustic instruments.

My Shadow Hills Stereo compressor sounds so good that i'm starting to think it would be great to use it as a master bus compressor. Being a bit thick in the engineering department i was wondering if anybody here has a good routing method to share with us. Or maybe point to some online tutorials...

The tricky part is, how do you send your mix to the external compressor and monitor the changes in realtime, and then when your satisfied with your mix, record the result in DP.

TIA

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Re: External Bus Compressor Routing question

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Route out to comp, back in to new stereo master record channel, monitor that input channel.
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Re: External Bus Compressor Routing question

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Hi EMRR,

thanks for the reply. Routing is the key word here.

What would be the typical routing to achieve something like this without feedback loops etc...

Thanks!

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Re: External Bus Compressor Routing question

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If you do exactly what EMRR suggested, you will not create a feedback loop.
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Re: External Bus Compressor Routing question

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Hi guys,

told you i was thick! ; )

If i understand i have to route the outs of each track to bus 3-4 for ex., set up an aux track with bus 3-4 as the input. Send the out of this Aux track to the external comp etc...

The thing is, the Shadow Hill does not have a bypass switch and just turning off the compression still colours the sound, so for A/B ing what should i do?

Thanks again!

Claude
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