elysia alpha compressor Dual-Channel Analog Mastering Compressor - Manual (Page 22)

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As with Upward Leveling, long attack times are
the secret of M/S Leveling. The compressor pri-
marily reacts to the overall signal energy and
not so much to single rhythmic accents.
If this principle is now used on the mid and the
side channel separately, a stereo mix will be-
come more compact in an unobtrusive way and
everything will sound a little bit more vivid. This
method is especially interesting for enhancing
rock and pop tracks in a subtle but effective way.
Here the feed forward mode is active again. The
ratio is set at about 1:1.5 and the gain control-
ler at about 3 dB. The threshold is adapted to a
value that results in approx. 3-4 dB of gain re-
duction.
settings - m/s leveling
M/S LEVELING
settings