Quote Originally Posted by auditory hallucinations
There was a really great post on here last week about compression - from memory you set the thresehold to a sensitive setting, ratio to max, release to min then fiddle with the attack till you get the "edge" you want, then adjust the release to get it to groove with the material - then back off the ratio until the effect you've created dissapears then increase it back a little, then adjust the threshold.
That's from that Mixing with Your Mind book I think.