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77 FINALIZER Desktop Application User Manual
12.4 Full Band Compressor
This full-band RMS compressor covers the complete frequency range, and it is a downward compressor, where material over a certain Threshold will be more and more
aected by the compressor, as set by the Ratio. Enabling makeup-gain will automatically compensate for the attenuation by the compression, thereby making it easier
to focus on the change in dynamics.
The attack time and the amount of compression can have a big eect on how the compression will aect the sound and the punch of the music. Further features are:
High resolution, double precision, innite headroom.
Parameters include:
• Threshold: -60.0 to +10.0 dB
• Ratio: 1.00:1 to Innity:1
• Attack: 1.0 to 100 ms
• Release: 10 to 1000 ms
• Makeup gain: on/o
• Gain reduction meters: Range 0.0 to –18.0 dB
12.5 3 Band Compressor, Legacy TC style
The 3 band compressor is a renement of the legendary MD3 dynamics processor from our System 6000. High resolution, multiband dynamics processing, has been a
trademark of TC Electronic for more than two decades. Splitting audio into frequency bands before compressing, tremendously helps to ght ‘breathing’ and spectral
intermodulation artifacts. Our algorithms are designed with the headroom to do so without introducing split- and recombination lter anomalies, and can be used for
level optimization, mix assistance, or discreet spectral balancing as required.
The lter bank employed is perfectly recombining. This means that even though the audio signal is split into 3 bands, the signal ends up exactly as it started when the
bands are summed (assuming no compression). Further features are: high resolution, double precision, innite headroom.
The 3 band compressor is a downward compressor, where material in each band, going over a certain Threshold will be more and more aected by the compressor, as
set by the Ratio control.
Makeup gain will compensate for the attenuation introduced by the compression. The makeup gain takes into account the spectral energy distribution of music, such
that the makeup gain applied will also reduce spectral discoloration that could result from multi-band compression without makeup gain. If makeup gain is OFF, a
similar eect can be achieved manually using the Band gain of the bands.
Parameters include:
• Linkable controls: Threshold, Ratio, Gain, Attack, Release
• Threshold: -60.0 to +10.0 dB
• Ratio: 1.00:1 to Innity:1
• Gain: -20.0 to +20.0 dB
• Crossover frequency:
• 40.00 Hz to 5.000 kHz (Low)
• 80.00 Hz to 10.00 kHz (High)
• Attack: 1.0 to 100 ms
• Release: 10 to 1000 ms
• Makeup gain: on/o
• Solo: on/o
• Gain reduction meters: Range 0.0 to –18.0 dB