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PostPosted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 2:51 am    Post subject: Long attack on a compressor
Subject description: Where to use it?
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Just a theoretical question. The answer might fill in a bit of theory which I can't seem to retrieve. Very Happy

Apart from mastering, where might you want to use a long attack on a compressor? Professional production values or simple pragmatic situations are both valid to me. I can see obvious use for relatively short or no attack while recording vocals, bass, percussion etc. But I'm not sure if long attack has a valid use pre-mixing.

Any ideas very welcome. Cool

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Define "Long". Are we talking longer than 50ms, or are we talking about 1500ms?
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 2:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Say,.... around the 150->300mS mark
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 3:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Uncle Krunkus wrote:
Say,.... around the 150->300mS mark


If you were trying to keep a big transient initiator out of the telemetry, you might want to delay the gate input from whatever transducer was tracking it.

I was trying to think of musical reasons, and I actually drew a blank. I keep thinking of situations where you are reacting after a large and long winded initial event. I can't think of any in my experience. Maybe someone else identifies.

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I was just re-reading this and it appears I was thinking of a gate, not a compressor, when I answered the last post. Delayed start to a compression envelope actually might have some application in audio, working with weak starting sounds that then get louder. As an example I thought of sampling rolling thunder. I can imagine there are some instruments that, acoustically, would benefit from a late gate to compression, such as plucked instruments, or some other source where you don't want to lose the definition in the attack.

I still can't think of any time I've ever used one, though. I have used delayed gates, but that's much less subtle.

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