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Old 10-11-2019, 12:43 PM   #116
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Originally Posted by Lokasenna View Post
So you agree that they're doing the same thing, albeit at different scales
YES - I do agree with this in principle. In retrospect my post was probably nit-picking - my concern (paranoia?) is primarily about less-confident mixers reading broad analogies, without realizing there are consequences.

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*appropriate: Having long enough time settings to get past transients, and/or lookahead so that you can actually compress from just before the transient to just after it like someone riding a fader would.
...and that's everything. You can even mitigate some of the 1176's demonic grabbiness by adjusting the release appropriately (I think you can get 1000ms?) so distortion only occurs at the onset, not at every peak.

...or I could make a partial Item selection and nudge the clip gain lol. Dunno, I really prefer the latter...to each their own as they say!
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