Compression - what was your a-ha moment? 25 years on, still looking for mine!

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Things everyone else already knows about

So a compressor is actually a goblin in a box. He has a little pair of headphones and listens to the incoming audio. He always keeps a hand on the volume control for the level of the audio going out. His whole job is to turn the volume knob if the audio gets too loud. The threshold is the level you tell the goblin: “If it gets above this loud, you turn it down, okay?” “OkAy” The ratio is how much he turns it down. Low ratios (2:1) means he only turns down the volume a little, high ratios me…