All the WEIRD Compressor Controls You Never Figured Out.

Do you REALLY know what the Knee control on your compressor does and how you should use it? How about Compressor Link, Feed Forward, Key, Sidechain & Release Hysteresis?

Justin Colletti covers all the weird compressor controls in this new podcast episode on the SonicScoop channel.

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In this episode, you’ll learn about the following:

0:00 Introduction
2:32 Basic Compressor Controls (Attack, Release, Ratio, Threshold)
4:30 Compressor Knee
18:13 Feedback Vs Feed Forward
22:09 Compressor Link (Stereo/Dual Mono)
28:52 Mid-Side (M/S) Compression
35:18 Mid Side Continued!
39:50 GR Limit
43:37 Key Input (Sidechain Ducking)
50:11 Compressor Sidechain (Sidechain EQ)
55:55 Release Hysteresis
1:02:11 Compressor Hold
1:03:45 True Peak Limiting
1:14:45 Compressor Type

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