elysia mpressor Dual-Channel Creative Compressor - Manual (Page 20)

20 settings - transient enhancer
A special task is to emphasize the transients at
the beginning of a tone, chord and so on. The
Gain Reduction Limiter is of special importance
in this scenario. The chosen parameters result
in a rather strong amount of compression with
fast release times and negative ratios.
Without the limiter, the signal would be com-
pressed way too much; 10 to 15 dB of gain
reduction would occur quite regularly in this
case. But here the limiter reduces the maximum
amount of gain reduction to 6 dB.
If now the gain controller is set to 6 dB, the sig-
nal will be boosted by 6 dB at its beginning and
will then be held at 0 dB during its further prog-
ress.
If for example an organ is processed this way,
it will sound tighter as its transients receive an
accentuation. And no matter if a single note or a
full chord is played – the output level will always
stay the same, so that the result does not sound
like typical compression.
This example shows that the mpressor can have
a strong influence on the complete envelope
of a signal. Take some time to find out how the
specific parameters relate and you will be able
to use the mpressor not only as a compressor,
but as a creative envelope shaping tool, too!
And once you got your envelope right, do not
forget to check if the Niveau Filter can give an
additional kick to the processed signal...
settings
TRANSIENT ENHANCER