A good first test run of the compressor on the stream. Feedback is obviously going to be of limited use due to how subjective "sound" is, but what I have gathered from it is that it seems like our mic input is a little hot so is causing some distortion. To fix that, we need to dial back the mic gain on the audio interface a little and we might also have pancaked the audio a little too much, so possibly pulling back the compression ratio from 6:1 to 4:1 might be the way to go. I like the "radio dj" sound, I've been pursuing it for a while and I think I've almost got it to exactly what I was hoping for, but some minor tweaks are still needed. Overall though I think there is a ton of value in compressing your audio, it makes it easier to listen to, it increases the production quality of the product, it eliminates the ear-splitting peaks that many streamers suffer from when they yell or laugh. It is the right call, at least for live. For my stuff on Youtube, well I've already been compressing the audio for years, just in post-production and in a different way. I don't think I'll replace my post production method with this hardware, unless I really feel like I want a unified sound between my youtube videos and my livestreams. In theory, running multiple post-production compressor modules as well as EQ should produce a better quality sound overall than just having a single hardware compressor, but I admit I'm kind of in love with the warm, vintage sound I get out of this thing. It's modelled after a famous compressor from the 60s, no digital parts, all valves and tubes. There's a lot of value to be found in the old-school production methods.
