Now that you have had a bit of a primer on what a mixer bus (or “buss”) is (see the last post, What Is a Buss in Audio Recording?, I thought it would be a good time to tell you about a good article on using buss compression. Since most often the output of a buss is going to contain signal from multiple sources, you have to think about compression a bit differently than you do when simply applying compression to a single track with a single sound source like a voice, guitar, piano, bass, etc. This article from Audio Fanzine gives some tips and suggestions for settings when using buss compression.
Read the full article here: http://en.audiofanzine.com/recording-mixing/editorial/articles/buss-compression.html
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