Chords for Interview with Paul Jackson Jr. Part2 "Using SP Compressor with Robotalk-RI & RC Booster"

_ Another thing I'd like to talk about is using compression or using the SP in combination with other effects.
And remember I talked about dynamic range and how the range of an instrument goes from really soft to really loud.
And then you may add an effect like a filter which increases that dynamic range and adds what's called peaks,
which are volume and frequencies that shoot way up.
And catching peaks can be very, very important on a recording.
So you might be doing a really simple part on a record and it's just a real simple [E] rhythm part.
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[Fm] _ Something [Am] very simple and the producer says, hey, I'd like to hear that with a filter on it.
And you say, great, OK, I add a filter.
Now watch what happens. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ OK, now you see that the guitar went from a volume around here _ [Fm] to _ _ _ [C] _
louder, softer, and the frequencies kind of went all over the place.
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[Fm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ so you may want to prevent that from happening.
OK, so what you'll do is I'm going to put _ the SP compressor after the RoboTalk filter.
OK, so now we have the SP compressor on.
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_ I'm going to turn the filter [E] on.
Now watch what happens to those [F] peaks. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Now you're still getting peaks, but as you can see, they're not way high and way low.
They're more evened out, [Cm] _
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_ [Em] _ Now just for the sake of demonstration, I had a lot of compression on there and you may not have that much.
Let's dial it back just a little bit for the same demo here. _ _ _
I'll put it on mid and put the blend about, yeah, about 230.
OK, and we'll do the same, we'll do the same demonstration.
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[Gb] _ [Bb] _ _ [Am] _ [Gm] _ Turn the [N] filter on.
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_ _ _ [D] _ _ [Gm] So you can see how it evens those peaks out, the peaks and the valleys, and brings that super wide dynamic range because of the filter down to a tolerable level.
And so it doesn't freak the engineer out and doesn't freak the producer out.
Another cool effect that you can do with compression, once again I talked about the dynamic range.
There's an effect in the RoboTalk that's kind of an arpeggiator, a filter sample hold kind of thing.
And without compression, it's something that's kind of all over the place.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ One of the things that compression can do, that compression will do, is kind of even that out a little bit. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Get rid of the peaks, _ _ pull it down to the mid setting, you don't need that much. _ _ _ _ _ _
And even things out, so you still get the [C] effect, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ And doesn't mess up the dynamic range of the recording so the engineer, once again, the engineer doesn't get mad at you.
_ Let's talk about tone for a second.
_ I have here an RC booster, and I call my RC booster kind of a really clean.
You can think of the RC as kind of an _ auxiliary guitar channel, if you will, in a way.
Kind of almost like a second amp channel.
So I have a sound here, [F] and [Eb] _ [Am] _ _ _
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_ [D] _ [C] _ _ _ I say, you know, I just want to play a couple of lines.
I'll turn the delay on, and I just want to play some lines.
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Well, [Eb] now you see the guitar got louder and brighter.
And you say, well, you know, I want it to get a little louder, but I don't want it to get that much louder.
And I want to change the sound, I want to bring the highs in, but I want to keep it still kind of within a certain dynamic range.
There's that word again.
Well, I'm going to turn the _ [A] compressor on.
Okay, and so here we have _
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my normal [G] tone.
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_ _ [Am] I'll turn the RC on.
Adds a little highs, a little gigs, _ [Dm] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ but it didn't destroy the dynamic range.
You know, it brought it out a little bit, but we're not all over the place in terms of the volume.
So very, very, very, very cool thing.
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