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Old 10-10-2019, 07:26 PM   #103
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It's also odd to me that so many compressors are really being used for saturation. When did those two decide that they made sense in the same plugin ?
Saturation is similar to compression. The threshold is the physical limitations of the electronics or tape.

When you turn a guitar amp up it gets to a point where it can't get any louder so it just stays the same volume but gets more distorted.

Likewise when you compress something, the harmonics are raised in volume.

Compression and saturation being linked totally makes sense to me.
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