In previous episodes of this long-running series looking at the world of high-quality audio, at every point we’ve stayed in the real world of physical audio hardware. From the human ear to the ...

People mix up the two types of audio compression all the time. Dynamic range and lossy compression are very different things. Dynamic range compression squashes soft-to-loud volume shifts. This form ...

The API 2500 is a fabulous and extremely flexible compressor that's been excellently emulated by the Universal Audio team. MusicRadar's got your back Our team of expert musicians and producers spends ...

Scheduled for release alongside the new UAD Software (v6.3.2 - out in early November) Universal Audio has announced a new Shadow Hills mastering compressor and Precision K-Stereo Ambience Recovery ...

Cosmotronic Messor is a fully analog stereo feed-forward VCA compressor designed for studio, modular, and live systems. Cosmotronic says that the architecture is derived from the original Cosmotronic ...

Alta Moda Audio have debuted the Hippo stereo compressor/limiter, the latest product in Alta Moda's expanding range of popular 500-series rack products.Here's all the details that they have sent us: ...

An audio compressor is one of the most important parts of sound design and mixing, but it is also one of the most misunderstood and mis-used. Here Tim Dunphy unravels the mysteries surrounding the ...

This week’s featured white paper from the NewBay Connect resource centre comes from Jünger Audio, and an insight into its Compressor and Expander range. The report states: “Compression is applied to ...

Compressors are one of the most used audio devices in the professional world and least understood by most nonprofessional users. PreSonus arranged the 16 presets by type of signal. We will use ...

It's hard to depict sound. Most apps show it as a wavelength, but in reality, it's a more complex mesh of multiple wavelengths that span different high and low frequencies. But the process of ...

Lossy compression schemes can be based on a source model, as in the case of speech compression, or a user or sink model, as is somewhat the case in image compression. In this chapter we look at audio ...