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I gave a clinic at a music store I was working at. One of the sales reps who does a lot of mobile recording did the clinic with me. He gave a great explanation of compression using the slat-wall that the guitars hang on. He used one row as noise floor and one much higher up as distortion. He used the example of a voice that goes from a whisper to a scream. He pointed out that the whisper would be below the noise floor, but if the gain was raised the scream would then go beyond the distortion point. He said to set the threshold to start two or three slats below the distortion. This was the gain of the track could be raised but when the vocal gets near the distortion level the compressor would kick in and bring the level down and keep it under the distortion level. This was the whisper is above the noise floor, and the scream is under the distortion point.
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