Re: [linux-audio-dev] Paper on dynamic range compression

From: Fons Adriaensen <fons.adriaensen@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Oct 18 2006 - 14:35:26 EEST

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:50:39PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

> ...
> Its very easy to get carried away with trying to reach some sort
> of audio perfection. Things like upsampling in order to apply
> compression is over-engineering.

I'd agree. This is a non-problem for a well-designed and properly
used compressor. The only area where it may matter is for heavy
peak limiting with both a very fast attack _and_ release. But if
you do that you already accept to mangle the original sound.

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FA
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