Dynamic Signal Processing - Posted on 2017-03-13 by Corrine Selden

Here are a few highlights from what I learned about dynamic signal processing in Chapter 14:

• The first commercially available compressor was released in the 1950s. 
• Bill Putman was the designer of the first commercially-available audio compressor. 
• Modern analog recording is a method of recording where signals are stored as a continual wave in or on the media, usually magnetic tape. 
• In digital recording, sound signals are converted and stored as binary data. 
• A compressor reduces dynamic range. 
• An expander increases dynamic range. 
• The threshold is the decibel point at which compression is intitiated. 
• A compression ratio of 100:1 would be considered limiting. 
• The ratio determines the amount of gain reduction of a compressor. 
• The attack determines how quickly compression will initiate after the threshold is breached. 
• The release determines how quickly gain reduction is reset after the signal drops back below the threshold. 
• A De-Esser is used to remove sibilance. 
• Multiband Compression involves processing one signal with different settings for frequency ranges present in the signal.
• Serial Compressoin implies that the output of one compressor is being fed into the input of another compressor.
• Parallel Compression implies that a signal is being split, and one half of the split signal is compressed separately using an aux send, and is then recombined with the original signal.