It's pretty common in metal production to put a multi band compressor on guitar buses to control the palm mutes, but it's not the only purpose. It's been a common practice with Axe-fx for years and some of the newer stomps (ie horizon devices precision drive) selectively shape the dynamics of low end frequencies before the amp. It's a valuable tool that helps to balance high gain amps and when done right (maybe a max of three routes with a single compressor on the middle band?) could most likely be done with the existing processing power of the current gen KPA.
Multi - band compressor
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I guess that would be useful live, but it would always be better to have control of multiband compression in the mix for studio recordings. I wouldn't print that kind of thing.
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I guess that would be useful live, but it would always be better to have control of multiband compression in the mix for studio recordings. I wouldn't print that kind of thing.
Sure. It's mainly for live purposes. Although - as stated in the original post - MB compression in front of the amp can change the sound characteristics quote dramatically, so it's the same as post processing for palm mutes...
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Palmmutes lowend kill midsized/highs live.
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And the KPA has to much low end so quick...