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P1 Audio Processor User Manual Page 33
clockwise). This will allow some more of the initial note attack to
sneak past the compressor.
Now try experimenting with the ratio control. Lowering the ratio will
restore more of the ‘natural’ dynamics of the instrument which may
be appropriate for some mixes.
Using such high levels of gain reduction (with the associated high
gain make-up) can sometimes raise the background noise level of
some instruments to an undesirable level. When this happens you
can either remove the background noise after recording or if you
prefer at source by switching the P1’s expander and adjusting as
described in that section of the user manual.
peakride compression
With so many analogue and digital compressors on the market
today, we decided to try a new approach to single band compression
which gives most of the advantages of multi-band compressors (plus
a few more!) without the downsides and operational complexity of
band splitting (usually involves chopping the audio into three bands
then putting it all back together again!) The full story of peakride is
told in our design white paper but here are the highlights;
It’s desirable for a compressor to be able to offer a wide range of
attack and release times to suit a variety of source material. For
example, percussion typically requires medium fast attack and
release times whereas some vocals require quite fast attack times
and medium/slow release times. Fast attack, fast release
compressors often have poor audio performance especially distortion
caused by ripple of the side-chain by the audio. Have a look at the
diagram below;