Digital dynamic range compressor design - A tutorial and analysis

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 399-408

  Giannoulis, Dimitrios ^a   Massberg, Michael ^a   Reiss, Joshua D ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO EFFECTS; COMPRESSOR DESIGNS; DESIGN TECHNIQUE; DIGITAL IMPLEMENTATION; DYNAMIC RANGE; DYNAMIC RANGE COMPRESSION; FEED-FORWARD; FEEDBACK DESIGNS; FORMAL KNOWLEDGE; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPRESSORS; LOG-DOMAIN;

COMPRESSORS;

DESIGN;

EID: 84865991945     PISSN: 15494950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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