COMPRESSOR
BEHAVIOR control - Magnifies the compression envelope in a unique fashion. BEHAVIOR
control manipulates the hardness and envelope of the compression and can take the sound
from virtually all ambience to all transients. As this control interacts with the other
compression controls, it creates a large array of envelope shaping and sonic possibilities
depending on the selected ratio and attack/release settings. Start with this control at ‘0’ and
ease it up to get a feel for what it does. It can create very extreme compression at high
settings, as it skews not only ratio but timing (fast can get very fast, etc.)
THRESHOLD control - Sets the level at which compression occurs.
RMS switch - engages the RMS sidechain, which computes timing based on the input signal
and does not use the ATTACK and RELEASE controls (they are disabled).
ATTACK switch - 3 position control sets the speed at which compression takes effect.
RELEASE switch - 3 position control sets the speed at which compression releases.
MAKEUP control - Sets the makeup gain of the compressor, unity point at ‘5’. Increasing
beyond 5, especially with BEHAVIOR turned up, can produced extremely high gains - which
is intentional as the ‘clean’ vca actually distorts beautifully.
SC FILTER switch - Engages a high pass filter on the sidechain signal, allowing the low end
through more as the detector sees less low end.
FLOATING SWITCH RIGHT/CEILING switch - This switch has been assigned to engage a final
output ceiling, a special type of limiting after the FEED faders and before the final output
control. This can be used (or abused) to pull together the composite fader signals, but it’s
action can be very limiting to the point where there are no dynamics, and high distortion. This
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