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Dec 05, 2016  In this Ableton Live 9 tutorial, I breakdown every parameter within Multiband Dynamics and also give a demonstration of it’s use by downward compressing and upward compressing one of. Jun 21, 2011  Mastering Chain (the secret sauce). The ultimate multiband dynamics processor, the C4 does it all: 4-bands of up and down expansion, limiting, and compression, plus dynamic and standard EQ. I love this as my Multi-Band compressor that evens out. Multiband Dynamics is great for microsurgery on individual sounds, but it also comes in handy for tweaking tracks and submixes. Four of the factory presets — Standard Multiband Comp, Restore Punch, Flatline and OTT — make especially good starting points for this. Jul 01, 2016  Help a newbie: OTT Multiband compression secrets Discussion of music production, audio, equipment and any related topics, either with or without Ableton Live 3 posts. Page 1 of 1.

7th November 2015
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Hey all, recently I have been working more and more with Multiband Compression and really learning how to use it in an effective way, but I was just wondering what the difference between a regular Multiband Compressor, and an OTT Multiband Compressor is. I refer mainly to Ableton live's Multiband Dynamics option for OTT since I have been using that, as well as Xfer's free OTT plug-in. I recently learned that OTT existed, and that it is used frequently by people who make Dubstep and other bass intensive music (not that I necessarily do). Just curious as to what makes it different from a regular Multiband Compressor, when it is generally applied to a signal, and why it is applied to said signal.
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So you want a free Ableton Live rack that features a multiband mid/side compressor ideal for mastering? You're in the right place. Here's how to use it, build it... and you can download it for free!

In this tutorial I will show you how to set up your own multiband mid/side compressor mastering racks. The one we will make will have full control over 3 frequency bands for the middle audio and 3 frequency bands for the side audio—though you can easily add more or less bands. This setup will deliver an incredible amount of control over your final sound!

Watch the Mid/Side Mastering rack in action:

I have also provided two racks for you to download. One uses the regular Compressor and the other uses the Glue Compressor. I did this for two reasons. First, so that Live Intro users can have access to at least one great sounding rack. The second reason is that the compressors work and sound differently and it is a good thing to have both setups available!

Download the Mid/Side Mastering Rack for Ableton Live here.

The racks themselves only use devices native to Ableton Live.

Compressor Rack *available in Live intro package and up

  • Audio Effect Rack
  • EQ 8
  • Compressor
  • Limiter

Glue Compressor Rack *available in Live standard package and up

  • Audio Effect Rack
  • EQ 8
  • Glue Compressor
  • Limiter

Building the Racks

The first thing you should learn how to do is set up your frequency splitting racks. I won’t be covering that part here, but I have done so here on Ask.Audio already. So, go learn how to do that—recommended—or download the finished rack from the bottom of that page. Then come back to this one.

Next, place a new audio effect rack onto a channel. Then add two EQ 8s on their own chains. Rename the chains—Mid, SIDE. It might be a good idea to rename each of the EQ 8s as well to avoid confusion later on.

The audio on the channel will now be split up and sent to both EQs equally. We want to filter the MID chain to just output the central audio and the SIDE chain to output just the stereo field audio. To do that we need to switch the mode of the EQs to M/S. That stands for MID and SIDE.

M/S mode by itself it means that you can EQ the mid band and the side bands differently. However, we want to do much more than that. So we are just going to filter out all of the side audio for the MID chain and all of the mid audio for the SIDE chain.

For the MID chain make the following changes to its EQ 8.

For the SIDE chain make the following changes to its EQ 8.

Now when the audio passes through the two filtering chains and comes out the other end it will sound exactly the same. This is where the fun begins.

Get the 3-band filtering rack we made in the other tutorial and drop one on after the MID chain’s EQ 8 and one after the SIDE chain’s. It will look like this.

Now we can add a compressor to each of the bands. You can add the regular Compressor or the Glue Compressor, or mix and match. Also, feel free to use some of the presets as starting points if you would like.

I added 6 total compressors. One to each band.

The last thing you can do is add a limiter to the end of the MID and the SIDE chains, after the Audio Effect Racks used to split up the frequencies. Be careful to add it to both the entire MID and SIDE chains and not the individual frequency bands.

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Now you can set out mapping any frequently used parameters to macros. I left most of the compressor parameters unmapped, because I knew I would need to get into each one for each track later anyway. Feel free to use my racks as road maps in terms of macro mappings.

I also placed one final limiter outside the entire rack to catch any audio peaks caused by the filter crossings.

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Don’t be afraid to get in there and EQ the MID and SIDE chains’ EQ 8s, adjust the frequency crossover points, and, of course, each one of the 6 compressors individually. Also, this project is specifically for compressors, but you can use this idea for many things. Like, reverb, or saturation, or everything at once!

Download the Mid/Side Mastering Rack for Ableton Live here.

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Learn more about mastering in Ableton Live in the AskAudio Academy here

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