ReaComp

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ReaComp is a full-featured compressor plug-in.

Controls

The basic controls of ReaComp are:

  • Threshold - lower the threhsold to catch peaks, or delve deep into the innards of an audio signal
  • Pre-comp - true look-ahead compression - WOW!
  • Attack - from 0ms to 500ms (5 seconds!)
  • Release - from 0ms to 5000ms (50 seconds!)
  • Use Auto release - you got it ... automatic release! woo hoo!
  • Ratio - from 1:1 to 100:1 (inf)
  • Knee Size - from 0db to 24db - this will tell the compressor to either start compressing as soon as a signal goes over the threshold (0db) or start compressing after it goes over the threshold by a pre-determined amount (i.e. 1db to 24db).
  • Detector Input - this is used as a key input for sidechain applications -
  • Low Pass/High Pass - Choose to NOT affect a certain range of the signal being compressed - very useful to avoid inadvertent bass compression
  • RMS size - this is an RMS detection function - generally, setting this value low gives more compression, and less compression when set higher.

Tutorials

Here are some videos on how to use ReaComp step-by-step:

http://www.reaper.fm/~pipeline/REAPERVideos/basics/7_ReaComp%20Basics%203mb.wmv

http://www.reaper.fm/~pipeline/REAPERVideos/basics/8_Using%20ReaComp%203mb.wmv

Presets

You can find some ReaComp presets here.


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