Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Sound Editing For Visual Media Ep07: How Compressors work (in Sound Design)
Hey folks! In Episode 7, we're gonna dive deep into Compression. We'll start with a crash course on how compression works, what do the parameters control (Attack, Release, Ratio, Threshold) and then I'll show 5 Sound Design Tricks that are commonly used in Sound Editing for Film and TV!
As always, check the blog post on my website:
iddqdsound.com/post/sound-design-for-visual-media-tutorial-notes-ep07
There will be a lot more info in the blog post for this episode, so that we can cut down on video length, and also so you have some notes to revise if you need something like that!
Big thanks to RYSE Productions for letting us use footage from their short film 'Sniper' in this tutorial. Check the film here:
youtu.be/9-P5UmYMg6U
Stay tuned because next Wednesday we will do a breakdown of one of my earlier sound design projects. The finished video is on YouTube and it's only 30 seconds long so check it out and let me know your thoughts:
youtu.be/oobhbZ_TDpg
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:33 Compression Crash Course
2:12 Compression Pop Quiz
4:36 Random rant on Compression myths
5:27 Downward vs. Upward Compression
10:01 Compressing Ambience Tracks
12:32 Adding power & Accentuating "Room" Sound
14:10 Compression to create distance
17:37 Outro and Next Episode
Sound Editing For Visual Media Ep07: How Compressors work (in Sound Design)
Hey folks! In Episode 7, we're gonna dive deep into Compression. We'll start with a crash course on how compression works, what do the parameters control (Attack, Release, Ratio, Threshold) and then I'll show 5 Sound Design Tricks that are commonly used in Sound Editing for Film and TV!
As always, check the blog post on my website:
iddqdsound.com/post/sound-design-for-visual-media-tutorial-notes-ep07
There will be a lot more info in the blog post for this episode, so that we can cut down on video length, and also so you have some notes to revise if you need something like that!
Big thanks to RYSE Productions for letting us use footage from their short film 'Sniper' in this tutorial. Check the film here:
youtu.be/9-P5UmYMg6U
Stay tuned because next Wednesday we will do a breakdown of one of my earlier sound design projects. The finished video is on YouTube and it's only 30 seconds long so check it out and let me know your thoughts:
youtu.be/oobhbZ_TDpg
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:33 Compression Crash Course
2:12 Compression Pop Quiz
4:36 Random rant on Compression myths
5:27 Downward vs. Upward Compression
10:01 Compressing Ambience Tracks
12:32 Adding power & Accentuating "Room" Sound
14:10 Compression to create distance
17:37 Outro and Next Episode
