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Old 03-09-2023, 02:56 PM
Gordon Currie Gordon Currie is offline
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With all the purported 'engineers' here, I am amazed that no one has referenced the AES (Audio Engineering Society) - a 75 year old standards organization - for definitions.

From the compressor entry:
"A signal processing device used to reduce the dynamic range of the signal passing through it."

Makeup gain is not required to have a compressor circuit/process; it is a utility add-on that makes it easier to use in certain cases.

https://www.aes.org/par/c/
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