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