Viitalahde
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This morning's thoughts:
I started wondering about the basic attack/release time constant circuit used in many compressors.
The basic circuit: R1 defines how C1 is charged, and R2 defines the dis-charge. Attack & release.
Now, without doing any maths (yet), I am wondering if there could be a sonic difference between these two circuits?
A) R1 & R2 are large, C1 = small
b) R1 & R2 are small, C1 = large
Both cases designed for same mathematical charge & dis-charge. Case A is obviously a high impedance circuit where B is a low-impedance circuit with high capacitance.
If both circuits act the same way on the paper, I suppose the driver before this could make a difference? Low-Z with high capacitance.. tough to drive.
From somewhere I remember the Fairchild 670 has a beefy (8 watts or so) sidechain driver?
I quess the ultimate question is: how do the designers end up with the R/C combinations in sidechains? They design the rectifier & driver and calculate around that, then listen & tweak?
I started wondering about the basic attack/release time constant circuit used in many compressors.
Code:
R1
IN >---------/\/\/\/-------o--------o-----------> OUT
| |
| /
C1 --- \ R2
--- /
| \
| |
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o----o---o
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---
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The basic circuit: R1 defines how C1 is charged, and R2 defines the dis-charge. Attack & release.
Now, without doing any maths (yet), I am wondering if there could be a sonic difference between these two circuits?
A) R1 & R2 are large, C1 = small
b) R1 & R2 are small, C1 = large
Both cases designed for same mathematical charge & dis-charge. Case A is obviously a high impedance circuit where B is a low-impedance circuit with high capacitance.
If both circuits act the same way on the paper, I suppose the driver before this could make a difference? Low-Z with high capacitance.. tough to drive.
From somewhere I remember the Fairchild 670 has a beefy (8 watts or so) sidechain driver?
I quess the ultimate question is: how do the designers end up with the R/C combinations in sidechains? They design the rectifier & driver and calculate around that, then listen & tweak?