In this email you'll learn a little bit about my friend and her new job, but in reality it's about how you need to get intimately familiar with your stock compressors.

My friend Nancy just started a new job recently. We've been friends for a long time and we know each other very well.

So it's funny to me to see a different side of her in a new job. It's not that she changed at all, it's that people in the office don't know her that well so they don't describe her like I would ever describe her.

When asked, they say: "Oh yeah Nancy is such a nice girl. She's always so nice. Nice. Nice. Nice.

Nice is NOT the way I would describe her.

Sure, she is nice. She's friendly and caring and kind to people around her.

But...

To those who really know her and have seen the party side of her know that the more accurate adjective is....crazy.

I mean that in a fun, outgoing let's get shit-faced together and laugh our asses off type of way. Not in the you need to be checked into a mental hospital type of way...

She's awesome like jumping 850 ft off the Stratosphere in Las Vegas is awesome (it's scary awesome btw...), NOT how going to bed before 10 PM is awesome (it might be necessarily awesome at some points, but it's boring). 

And it's all because when she knows you well enough she lets you see how fun she can be. 

Which conveniently brings me to your stock compressors.

You might think your stock compressors are pretty boring. They're nice but they're not as awesome as the new Chris Lord-Alge LA2A from Waves right?!?

Wrong.

I have A LOT of cool premium compressors to use but lately I've been gravitating back towards my stock compressor. It's so versatile because it has multiple different emulations of FET, VCA and OPTO compression so I can really dial in the type of sound I want for a specific track. 

It also has a huge GUI so I can really dig into all the controls to get the exact setting I need. Many of the premium compressors don't have an attack or release (LA2A) so you are stuck with one setting without the option of tweaking it further.

But what if I wanted an OPTO sound with a slightly tweaked attack/release? Or a really soft knee?

Then the stock compressor comes to the rescue with all the buttons I need. Being able to get to know all the different compressor styles in only one plug-in has made the stock compressor crazy awesome. So if you're lusting after the latest Waves plug-in because you think you need that particular compressor emulation, how about you go back to your stock compressor and get to know it a little better.

I'm pretty sure it'll show you how fun it can be.

If you want to see me use the stock compressor I have and how I switch between all the different emulations in a 2-hour mixing session while explaining everything I do in a mix, go check out Quick Mixing.

It's where I use only stock plug-ins to create a quality mix in only 2 hours.

www.QuickMixing.com