[sdiy] Advice

[Martin Fay]

Ingo wrote:
>Seems a contradiction to me. A compressor lowers the dynamics, so it's 
>no good if dynamics are already lacking.

That depends on how you use the compressor. Consider a sound with a
percussive envelope and running that through a compressor with a slow
attack. The start of the transient will go through, then the volume
will start to be turned down. The result exaggerates the dynamic!


Martin

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