I am doing some home recordings. Is it worth paying 200 dollars for an pedal compression like the EBS or will the Cubase compression function be sufficient?
Cubase's comp / dynamics will give you more control than a stomp box, for recording. Plus it has a visual read out. Try chaining a comp with a loudness maximizer, the LM first.
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