In which I run through the many and powerful options in the APU Loudness Compressor, which helps to give us insights into compression more generally.
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Music: "Looking Up" by Dan Worrall
Bandcamp link:
https://dan-worrall.bandcamp.com/track/looking-up
0:00 intro
0:26 Most compressors suck for loudness control
2:11 The strange way we categorise compressors
5:45 Levelling a voice
8:48 Lookahead modes and latency budget
11:42 Attack and Release Smoothing
12:43 Linear rate smoothing
16:18 Musical uses for loudness compression
17:18 Peak detection
19:39 Blocksize and offline HD
21:44 Dithering deltas and inertial ballistics
22:57 Attack and release units and BPM sync
25:50 Linear rate peak compression
28:05 RMS detection
32:35 Interface colours
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