Dynamics, Compressors, limiters, Oh MY! Single band, mul…

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Dynamics, Compressors, limiters, Oh MY!

Single band, multi band, soft knee, hard knee, ratios, attack, releaseโ€ฆ on and on and on.

These terms sound more like medical tools/procedures used in gastrointestinal bypass surgeries!

Despite some of their more gruesome sounding names, these are all terms related to, and describing dynamics โ€“ and dynamics control in audio.

In this article we define a few items of interest.