AES Section Meeting Reports

Weston Ray Demonstrating the usage of various compressors

Meeting Topic: Compressor Shoot-out

Moderator Name: Bryan Armstrong

Speaker Name: N/A

Other business or activities at the meeting: Discussion of moving meeting location to the new Weston House Recording Studios location.

Discussion of possibility of amending bylaws to return elected officer term to 2 years.

Meeting Location: Weston House Recording Sacramento, CA

Summary

During this compressor comparison and tutorial meeting, we took a recorded waveform and ran it through various compressors such as the Millennia Media TCL-2, the UREI LA2A, LA3A, 1176, the Focusrite Red 3, the Empirical Labs Distressor and the FMR Audio RNC for comparison. We also compared the Innertube Audio Atomic Squeeze Box, dbx 160X and 162, Manley Variable Mu and the UREI 1178. We discussed the features of compressors such as threshold, ratio, attack, release, stereo linking, make up gain and peak vs. RMS sensing. We also discussed compression terms such as hard knee, soft knee, limiting, and clipping. Feed-forward and feed-back compressor designs were also discussed.

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