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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 34994" data-attributes="member: 126"><p>Re: Digital Boards - Sound Quality</p><p></p><p>Regarding digital compression, I recall the early stand alone digital comps and they were odd ducks. Well ahead of their time, and the market. </p><p></p><p>In theory, one of the hard parts about designing a compressor is VCA linearity and noise (or at least it was.). Inside the digital domain a gain change is a simple multiply that does not degrade signal linearity... both approaches sound will probably be dominated by side chain time-constants and techniques. Digital offers some extra capabilities that analog can not match, especially if you can tolerate some output latency to let the side chain look ahead in time. </p><p></p><p>Again, I will only argue theory (what should be) not execution (what is). Digital dynamics have a clear edge on theory, analog dynamics have more practice making it sound good. </p><p></p><p>JR</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 34994, member: 126"] Re: Digital Boards - Sound Quality Regarding digital compression, I recall the early stand alone digital comps and they were odd ducks. Well ahead of their time, and the market. In theory, one of the hard parts about designing a compressor is VCA linearity and noise (or at least it was.). Inside the digital domain a gain change is a simple multiply that does not degrade signal linearity... both approaches sound will probably be dominated by side chain time-constants and techniques. Digital offers some extra capabilities that analog can not match, especially if you can tolerate some output latency to let the side chain look ahead in time. Again, I will only argue theory (what should be) not execution (what is). Digital dynamics have a clear edge on theory, analog dynamics have more practice making it sound good. JR [/QUOTE]
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