How It Was Recorded

Gear · compressor

Smart Research C2

Records it appears on · 1

  • Dance Monkey

    Tones and I · The Kids Are Coming, 2019

    • Mix bus · Mix effectsVerifiedHardware compressor on the master bus, doing very little.Settings: At most 3 dB of gain reduction

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Waves SSL G-Master Buss Compressor

compressor

The C1 and C2 are bus compressors in the SSL style. This models the SSL G-series bus compressor, not the Smart unit.

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Solid State Logic SSL Native Bus Compressor 2

compressor

The C1 and C2 are bus compressors in the SSL style. This is SSL's own bus compressor plugin.

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