Let's say I put a compressor on a piano. With the threshold at -8db, ratio at 2:0, attack at 15.0 ms and realease at 400 ms, and the gain at 0. And let's say the piano plays at -4db without the compressor. Without doing anything to the volume on the mixerslot and the gain on the compressor nothing changes, still the same dynamic range still the same db. But when I lower the voulme on the mixer and increase the gain on the compressor, a clear treshold is made, and by changing the voulme and gain I can set the db threshold wherever i want. Even over and below the -8db threshold I set earlier. How does this work? Shouldn't the compressor work without touching the voulme or gain when I have a threshold and the attack and release? Thanks for reading!
Submitted August 29, 2016 at 10:38AM by Maartain https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/5051gy/how_does_this_work_compressor/?utm_source=ifttt