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What Dynamics Processors Are Actually For

Why anything needs compressing at all — the noise floor, the ceiling, and the four processors that all fall out of two simple choices.

Topic
Mixing
Level
Intermediate
Format
Lesson
Time
11 min

Ask why a compressor exists and the usual answer is that it makes things louder, or more even, or more punchy. All three are consequences. None of them is the reason.

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