Solid State Logic Vocalstrip manual Compander, Process Order

4.4 Compander

The term Compander is a hybrid of Compressor and Expander. First the signal enters the downwards expander, which has a fixed ratio of 1.5:1 and is designed to reduce room ambience, spill or breath noise that is often brought up by the subsequent compression. The Thresh (threshold) ranges from 0dB FS down to –96dB FS which essentially turns the expander off.

The compressor offers both hard and soft knee modes alongside fully variable Ratio, Thresh (threshold), Attack, Releas (release) and Makeup

controls. The output stage which is sourced after the make-up gain features an optional Drive feature. This introduces non-linear characteristics and hence harmonics to the signal and its intensity is controlled by the level of the make- up gain knob. More make-up gain increases the level into the drive circuitry. If you use a lot of make up gain to drive the circuit, the level can be reduced again by using the Output slider.

4.5 Process Order

The four processing blocks can be arranged in any serial order using the process order

controls at the bottom of the plug-in. To use, just highlight the block you would like to move and press either the

left-hand arrow or the right-hand arrow to move it one place in that direction.

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