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The Ratio control
As indicated above, this determines the ratio between the in- and output level above the threshold setting. The preset value specifies how the input dynamics should behave with respect to the output: a ratio of 1 to 2 means that only half of the dynamic change will be present on the output. At 10 dB of dynamics there will only be 5 dB on the output, whereas using a ratio of 1:8 means 10dB becomes just 1.25 dB, etc.
In short, this determines how much dynamics is allowed to remain. If the compressor is used to process vocals with very large variations in loudness, you would select a high ratio value (1:5 – 1:10) to produce a
Fig. 2,
„Ratio Hardknee“
The slope of the compressor curve may be straight with a sudden rise (hard- knee, Fig. 2), but it may also show a softly curved slope in which compression begins slowly
Fig. 3,
„Ratio Softknee“
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