Reference Manual

CHAPTER 20. LIVE AUDIO EFFECT REFERENCE 270
while the Polarity switch sets (surprise!) the polarity. Polarity changes have the most effect
with high amounts of feedback and short delay times.
The Dry/Wet control adjusts the balance between the processed and dry signals. Set it to
100 percent when using Chorus in a return track.
Enabling the Crisp option via the (PC) /
Ctrl
(Mac) context menu can improve the
sound quality, particularly at higher frequencies. This is enabled by default, except when
loading Sets that use Chorus and were made in earlier versions of Live.
20.5 Compressor
The Compressor Effect.
A compressor reduces gain for signals above a user-settable threshold. Compression re-
duces the levels of peaks, opening up more headroom and allowing the overall signal level
to be turned up. This gives the signal a higher average level, resulting in a sound that is
subjectively louder and punchier than an uncompressed signal.
The latest incarnation of the Compressor effect merges the functionality of the former
Compressor I and Compressor II devices into a single unit, and adds additional functionality
such as external sidechaining, adjustable knee, more EQ options, an improved peak mode,
and a new feedback model, which is lovingly based on some classic hardware compressors.
The new Compressor is fully backward-compatible with Compressor I and Compressor II
presets.
A compressor's two most important parameters are the Threshold and the compression