Again I will start with..
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Settings used for the measurements Above
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FR
Well Flat, the only downside was that the makeup gain steps just wouldn’t fine align that’s why it’s slightly below, right away the DSC will be linear aswell.
Phase
Flat
THD/THD+N
Alright let me give you some basic understanding of what you see, you either see a modeled THD which is so low you can’t even consider it THD, or harmonics created by only the compression which is a ”natural” phenomenon … I could have just ruled this THD off because of its Klirr, but instead I will proceed, in order to educate in something new.
Q: OMG do you mean digital can sound analogue by itself, because compressing digitally can create harmonics? And this is what we are looking for in this graph right? :O
A: No because here is what happens, Harmonics/Harmonic Distortion created by hard/soft clipping and compression are static in almost all level values, unlike analogue which has a very defined value for each magnitude that interacts altogether. Digital has a static form in almost all magnitude points.
So is this a modeled THD or just a Compression Sideffect?
In order to be able to find this out, we need to create a dynamic test in the next test you can see the interaction of the THD from -18dB to +18dB
Yeap, this comfirms my suspicion, this is digital compression sideffects. In other words no analogue modeling THD.
Consensus
This is a digital Softknee Compressor
Fab