hey i had a guy tell me that i can use a waves plugin as a compressor while i'm recording instead a outboard is that true thats all i wanna know


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You can select a compressor as one of the send effects of the track you are recording. You can only monitor this effect post - software so there will be latency and once you record the track compressed you can't undo it.

Maybe it's best to apply the compression once the track has been recorded.