Compression on mixbus?

[briaboy]

Just been watching this from Abbey Road. I've always worked into a plugin chain on my mixes (i.e. pre-mastering stage) - eqs, comps, etc. I thought that's what mix bus compressors were for?! Any thoughts? Thanks!
BB

https://twitter.com/AbbeyRoad/status...266987524?s=20

[Ben Jenssen]

I watched the short video. I guess it makes a lot of sense these days, as a lot of people producing music don't really know a lot about what their doing, IMO. The message is; leave the 2-bus dynamics to us, the mastering engineers, for a better end result.

In my old-school world, I don't really care about mastering. I make my mixes sound the best I can, with whatever means I have. That's what they did in the old days, and mastering was a technical stage to get from one medium to another, ie tape-to-vinyl.

[JFreak]

Compressor on mix buss is said to "gel" things together. In reality those were used in the analog days when we ran out of compressors. So what he ^ said, mix first and master later.

[marmotman]

But aren't some of these bus comps what provides the mix its "vibe"? Without them, certain material can not have the sound the artist wants. They shouldn't be dictated to by a mastering engineer whether they're allowed to stick a comp on their mixbus or not. There's also many worldclass mix engineers who swear by mixing through a bus comp, so...

[jeam25]

Hi keep in mind and be aware that some bus compressors have the HP filter , this can be very useful in some occasions .