Hey, guys. I've watched Dylan's tutorial on compressors. I even went back and looked at the module where he explains hold, range, and the knee. He never really went into depth about range, because it's less common than the knee. Hold is pretty audible as you listen to the playback, and God showed me the knee pretty fast, too. I can't seem to get range, though. I'm stuck trying random settings until I try one where the volume stays the same throughout the whole song. Then I realized most of the time I can get by without even using that parameter, but I want to learn my plugins in their entirety. How do I use the range parameter with intention? One of my bus compressors and my master compressor both have it. One thing I really don't get is that it says Max GR db is i.e. 36db. How is that possible when according to the number on the mix bus or master bus, it's actually like 2 or 3 db? What's the connection? What indicator(s) am I looking at when I go to set the range and what is the end goal I'm looking to achieve by using it at all? A visible demostration would be ideal. I'm descent at mixing, but I'm no pro, so if you could simplify your explanation to a student level engineer, it would really help.

Hey, guys. In the words of Belo Zero (from Do Or Die - IYKYK), ain't this some shhhh..... I didn't originally update to Tahoe the regular way. I was scared of losing everything, so after backing up my Mac, I started the whole operation from scratch and loaded from my backup disk. Doing some tech support, I got a view of that beautiful beach scene from a regular Tahoe update, I wanted that instead of just a plain blue screen from Sequoia. So I wiped it clean again and redownloaded all my plugins. I had a discontinued plugin called OCS-45 from a company called Spectral. A dope tape emulation with some dope parameters. I have the plugin in my backup disk still. I can see all the files that have anything to do with it. Is there any way I can get it back with that disk? I already tried copying the AAX file to my Pro Tools plugin folder to no avail.

Hey, guys. Waves is giving away a free masking correction plugin called Curves Resolve for 48 HRS! So act fast if you want that mug.

Hey, guys. I finally updated to Tahoe last month. A few of the plugin sites still haven't given the okay for us to go ahead and update, but I said screw it. The only thing is Auto-Tune Central is making me enter my computer password every time I open it. Not my Antares login info but the one for my personal computer. Is anyone else having this issue? And Universal Audio is just acting weird. It's always running in the background. I usually click on the "UA" symbol in the top right of my screen and open it from there, but now when I try to do it, my screen has the loading circle spinning around and never loads. I have to close it using that symbol and then open it from my dock and even then, it takes longer to load than it used to. Is anyone else having this issue?

Universal Audio is generous as crap, bro. I see why they're one of the leading audio suppliers. I literally have more free stuff from them than plugins I paid for. And we all know how solid their plugins are. They're giving away a freaking bundle for free! And an analog preamp, at that! You should get the notification when you open UA Connect.