Quote Originally Posted by serox
i think alot of noise is done with nord lead but i cannot work out how the compression is done to make it sound so big n deep on every thing.


cheers
think of a compressor as a volume controller on a sound. it makes the loud bits quieter and the quiet bits louder. so for example on a kick drum you could decrease the initial high transient (peak) so the sound dosen't clip (distort) and increase all the valleys (low transients) thus making the sound phatter.

It's good to practise compression theory in a wave editor where u can physically see the waveform and what ur compression results do to the sound.