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2.3.9.4 Artistic Effects
The manipulation of timing within compression can create some very useful effects. In
particular, gain overshoots produced by slow to moderate attack times can be very useful at
tightening up soft percussion sounds. However, a note of caution is needed for users of
workstation applications in that effects such as these may cause unexpected programme
clipping that may prevent the available range of possible sounds being fully appreciated. In
particular, for systems that lack overload margin between plug-ins or within their mixing
structures, the extra short term peaks produced by creative compression may be prematurely
clipped within the host application because essentially there is no range (headroom) to
accommodate them. In this case a reduction of input levels and/or a suitable reduction of the
threshold and gain make-up values may be needed to fully realise the new sound within the
intended mix.