Re: Compression Device & Placement

[SayAaahh@aol.com]

RE: Compression.

I have a mono f/x & guitar rig.  Using a stereo compressor, I've found 
adding
two levels of compression to be quite interesting.  

What I do is add a first level of compression after any floor f/x and 
before
any other rack-mounted units.  I do this to smooth out drastic level jumps
from combining varous floor pedals to avoid clipping distortion on
rack-units.  

The second level of compression I add after all other racked f/x and before
my Echoplex to help avoid overloading the sensitive input on the 'Plex.  
This
second level of compression tends to thicken my general sound too.  
Sometimes
this is nice.  Other times it's not and I turn it off.

Another useful feature of this set-up is I can set-up a ducking/noise gate
arrangement surpressing accumlated hum and hiss while I'm "idling" (before
any signal is gnerated).   

For what it's worth.
David Kirkdorffer