After doing research on Ethan Johns and reading about his thoughts on compression and not over compressing everything, I decided to try and stick as close to that as possible. For the acoustic guitars, I added some EQ and a slight bit of reverb to add to more ambience and avoided over using compression.

I kept this set up for the acoustic guitars consistent throughout the EP.

For the vocals, I again kept consistent settings for each track, using EQ, reverb, and some compression. Although Ethan Johns tried to avoid compression, I felt it was necessary in the situation. After researching, Home Studio Corner wrote on their website “It can be a great tool, and it can be easily overdone. However, I can’t imagine mixing a song without using compression on the lead vocal. It both tightens up the vocal and helps it fit into the mix.”

Also, the vocals are what the main focus of the EP would be on there for they needed to stand out and not be drowned out by the other instruments, hence why some slight compression was used.