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Bubba...What a limiter will do is, obviously, LIMIT the volume of a partical signal. So, in other words, the loudest parts of that signal will not go past a certain threshold. Then, by using what's called "make up" gain, you turn up the WHOLE signal. Thus, the lowest parts of that signal become louder. And since we limited the loudest parts of that signal, the lowest and loudest parts are now closer together (less dynamics). We can now turn up the whole signal, thus making it louder, while avoiding clipping (since we limited the loudest part of that signal). That's why people use the term "squashed" when reffering to a very heavily limited sugnal. We squashed it by making the lower volume part of that signal closer to the higher volume part of it.
That's the best I can come up with.
That's the best I can come up with.