The Compressor is useful for mastering tracks as well as your whole song. While it lowers peaks in your wave material that might otherwise cause clipping, it allows you to raise the general gain of your song, therefore adding more power to the final product.
- Threshold
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If your sound is louder than the threshold level, it gets reduced.
- Ratio
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Determines the amount of sound reduction, e.g. if your ratio is 1:6 and your sound reaches 6 dB above the threshold limit, it will be reduced by 1 dB.
- Attack/Release
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Specifies the amount of time it takes to reach full compression / to get back to 0% compression afterwards.
- Output
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Determines the volume level of your processed sound.