You’ll also come across terms like upward compression and expansion, both of which flip standard compression on its head. A limiter is essentially just a compressor set at a high ratio - ie, the amount of compression applied above the threshold - so that it completely cuts off all peaks over a certain level. We’ve included some plugins labelled as limiters below, too. The former tackles the whole frequency range at once, while the latter can be applied to low, high or mid range frequencies independently.
Then there are broadband or multiband compressors. Transparent compressors aim to do their job without you noticing they’re there, controlling dynamics but remaining as faithful as possible to the input audio.Ĭharacterful compressors, which are often emulations of vintage hardware, may alter the sound of your audio slightly, usually through subtle EQ or filtering, or by adding a touch of musically-pleasing distortion. One of the main divides in compressor types are those described as transparent and those that are ‘characterful’.
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