Threshold, ratio, attack, release, knee, hold, peak versus RMS and stereo link — each one, with the numbers that make it a decision instead of a guess.
Almost everyone learns compression by copying settings. A preset called Vocal, a number from a forum, a screenshot of someone's plugin. It works often enough to be encouraging and fails often enough to be baffling, because the settings were right for a different singer in a different room.
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