RODECaster Pro II Compressor Settings & Explanation

In this week’s episode, we demonstrate how to set up the compressor on your RODECaster Pro II. For those who don’t want to learn, but just want the settings, we give you those first. Then for those who prefer to understand what each of the settings do, we explain threshold, ratio, attack, release, and gain. We then provide a demonstration of how to set the settings and, importantly, how NOT to set them.

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Index:
00:00 Start
00:12 Summary & settings
00:22 What is compression & why use it?
01:16 Use these settings to start
01:39 Set threshold
02:29 Adjust gain up
03:19 What is threshold?
04:14 What is ratio?
05:35 What is attack?
06:43 What is release?
07:35 What is gain?
08:04 Demonstration
09:21 Explanation of demo — why I did what I did
10:59 How NOT to set a compressor
12:24 Explanation of what NOT to do
13:36 Please buy my courses