Well.. keep in mind that a LOT of classic hardware compressors aren't necessarily entirely close to what they are theoretically "supposed to do" .. like often ratios act in linear rather than dB or the curves might be all wonky 'cos the "VCA" is something weird.synthpark wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 2:35 pmOk I checked the Glue and it seems it must do something like the curve shown above for target level versus input level, apart from doing odd things like shifting the threshold when going from 4:1 to 10:1. That essentially answers my question and means that you cannot just disconnect the input and connect the output to the detector of some forward compressor design. It is not as simple as that. Although formula seems correct.
The G-series(?) compressor on which the Glue is based on is actually a reasonably "non-weird" specimen if I recall correctly, 'cos it's a VCA based design that you can at least expect to be somewhat consistent and the only real "quirk" of this particular design is the side-chain: it basically does feedback compression on the side-chain signal, but then applies the same gain-reduction to the actual signal-chain in a sort of feed-forward fashion.. so you get to have a separate side-chain, but still feedback dynamics.