I still contest the idea that there's expansion happening though, even though the ratio is reversed
From: WaveLab 5 - Help Files / MultiCompressor:
Creating a curve in the area below the diagonal input/output line will cause compression. Compression decreases the output level in relation to the input level.
Creating a curve in the area above the diagonal input/output line will cause expansion. Expansion increases the output level in relation to the input level.
What's stumping me is...&...I certainly do not mean to challenge your expertise in any way (as you're already 3, 4 light years ahead of me anyway)...but why would you continue to assume that because the curve has two slopes, one means compression & one means expansion ??? Curves
always have (at least) two slopes...that's why we call them curves (?) If the scales were typical; & these curves were of the compression variety...the lower slope would represent I/O
below the threshold & the upper slope would represent I/O
above the threshold...plain & simple, correct? So why would it be any different in the reverse (characterized as expansion)?
Anyway...I have an e-mail in to tech support at Cube-Tec. If there are any Spectral Design guys still hanging around in the shop...I've asked them to explain exactly what this thing does; & to what extent. I know I said I was giving it up...but you see...I can't...I can't...because, I'm sick...it's PCM sickness, I say....I'm beginning to prefer Nika's book in the evenings over my wife.
[I'm also hoping that this plug (
MultiComp); & their
Loudness Maximizer, are available as natives for a Wintel system.]
BTW - Meant no offense w/ the South Side origin inquiry. To me, there are three famous South Side locations in America...Chicago, Asbury Park & Boston; & I just forgot to include Boston, that's all.
mark4man
