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Originally Posted by Damage Inc.
Oh, well at the moment the two particular ones I'm demo-ing are the Waves api-2500 and SSL Master Buss Compressor. But this might change and I've been trying out all kinds of different ones to see what works best for me of course. These are great though.
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Damage,
I use these two compressors on almost every mix. I love them both. When reading through the previous posts, you mentioned again the initial hit clipping. Try trimming the volume of the media item down until the initial hit is around -12 or so for each channel. (Note: this is not the fader on the Mixer, this is the item trim...I may have used the wrong term for this funciton so someone may need to correct me!) The BULK of the sound should be around -18 on the meters. Both of those compressors from Waves are calibrated to work best at -18, which roughly equals 0 on the VU meter. That alone should help tremendously with the clipping issues, and it should help the compressors from sounding overloaded.
Let me know what you think about those two compressors.