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Good day, good folks.

I'm currently studying compression and i have it down packed i think minus one issue.

I am able to get the same gain reduction on a signal no matter how high or low my ratio is. If i want a gain reduction of lets say 5db, i can get that gain reduction from every ratio be it 2:1 or 8:1 just by adjusting the threshold to be higher or lower on the audio signal.

I'm sure you guys would say that what i am achieving by doing that is just affecting more or less of the signal. Granted.

I have a piano piece and the highest peak to the average volume of the piano is a 3db difference. I lower the threshold 3db from the highest peaks so now my threshold line is just touching the average volume of the piano. I need a 3db gain reduction but even with the compressor at a ratio of 100:1, it's not even giving me 2db gain reduction.

What am i missing here?

Thank you family.

I'm currently studying compression and I have it down packed I think minus one issue.

I am able to get the same gain reduction on a signal no matter how high or low my ratio is. If i want a gain reduction of lets say 5dB, I can get that gain reduction from every ratio be it 2:1 or 8:1 just by adjusting the threshold to be higher or lower on the audio signal.

I'm sure you guys would say that what I am achieving by doing that is just affecting more or less of the signal. Granted.

I have a piano piece and the highest peak to the average volume of the piano is a 3db difference. I lower the threshold 3dB from the highest peaks so now my threshold line is just touching the average volume of the piano. I need a 3dB gain reduction but even with the compressor at a ratio of 100:1, it's not even giving me 2dB gain reduction.

What am I missing here?

Good day, good folks.

I'm currently studying compression and i have it down packed i think minus one issue.

I am able to get the same gain reduction on a signal no matter how high or low my ratio is. If i want a gain reduction of lets say 5db, i can get that gain reduction from every ratio be it 2:1 or 8:1 just by adjusting the threshold to be higher or lower on the audio signal.

I'm sure you guys would say that what i am achieving by doing that is just affecting more or less of the signal. Granted.

I have a piano piece and the highest peak to the average volume of the piano is a 3db difference. I lower the threshold 3db so now my threshold line is just touching the average volume of the piano. I need a 3db gain reduction but even with the compressor at a ratio of 100:1, it's not even giving me 2db gain reduction.

What am i missing here?

Thank you family.

Good day, good folks.

I'm currently studying compression and i have it down packed i think minus one issue.

I am able to get the same gain reduction on a signal no matter how high or low my ratio is. If i want a gain reduction of lets say 5db, i can get that gain reduction from every ratio be it 2:1 or 8:1 just by adjusting the threshold to be higher or lower on the audio signal.

I'm sure you guys would say that what i am achieving by doing that is just affecting more or less of the signal. Granted.

I have a piano piece and the highest peak to the average volume of the piano is a 3db difference. I lower the threshold 3db from the highest peaks so now my threshold line is just touching the average volume of the piano. I need a 3db gain reduction but even with the compressor at a ratio of 100:1, it's not even giving me 2db gain reduction.

What am i missing here?

Thank you family.

Good day, good folks.

I'm currently studying compression and i have it down packed i think minus one issue.

I am able to get the same gain reduction on a signal no matter how high or low my ratio is. If i want a gain reduction of lets say 5db, i can get that gain reduction from every ratio be it 2:1 or 8:1 just by adjusting the threshold to be higher or lower on the audio signal.

I'm sure you guys would say that what i am achieving by doing that is just affecting more or less of the signal. Granted.

But if i have a piano piece and i just cover the highest peaks with the threshold, i realized i have to use a high ratio like maybe 10:1 for the peaks to be at a similar level to the rest of the audio signal. If the ratio is how much the signal is compressed, is 10:1 compression not excessive compression for something like a piano? Especially when the difference in db from the peaks to the average signal is nothing that crazy?

(the db difference from the highest peak of the piano to the average db of the piano is a difference is 3db.)

What am i missing here?

Thank you family.

Good day, good folks.

I'm currently studying compression and i have it down packed i think minus one issue.

I am able to get the same gain reduction on a signal no matter how high or low my ratio is. If i want a gain reduction of lets say 5db, i can get that gain reduction from every ratio be it 2:1 or 8:1 just by adjusting the threshold to be higher or lower on the audio signal.

I'm sure you guys would say that what i am achieving by doing that is just affecting more or less of the signal. Granted.

I have a piano piece and the highest peak to the average volume of the piano is a 3db difference. I lower the threshold 3db so now my threshold line is just touching the average volume of the piano. I need a 3db gain reduction but even with the compressor at a ratio of 100:1, it's not even giving me 2db gain reduction.

What am i missing here?

Thank you family.