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Is there any difference between a 'loudness equalizer' and a 'compressor'?
by klysm 6y ago
Is there any difference between a 'loudness equalizer' and a 'compressor'?
- kitotik 6y agoPossibly working on specific frequencies and boosting/cutting those in addition to compressing transients. Sometimes referred to as “Multiband compression”
- qppo 6y agoKind of. A compressor is usually a dumb dynamics processor that just looks at an envelope to compute gain reduction. A loudness equalizer is a much smarter dynamics processor that can have gain reduction or addition and tracks perceptual loudness (not the envelope) while adapting parameters to hit some target loudness. Its sort of like a really smart AGC, which is a general purpose dynamics processor.