For drum-driven 'dance' music where punch must be maintained at all costs;
Start with the release at its shortest, El-Uni, transient time at 0, transient shape at 1, 'dyn' thing off (!!!!). Set desired loudness and if need be (deep sub) start moving the transient time up/transient shape down/release up to alleviate any unpleasantness. If you go beyond 3 or so with the trans time then you may get better results switching to dyn 3 and keeping it lower, maybe not.
It took me ages to figure out what it was that was making everything 'smoosh out' - almost as if the drums softened into the background. It's that dyn thing. Switching it off makes El-3 the best transient preserver I know.It is awwwwesome.
