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ste20man:
Hi.

After treating my room I'm now asking some pretty basic questions. I might come across as a bit stupid here but I am so here I go.

I think I understand the role of a compressor, bringing the peaks down giving an overall less variable db(forgive the description as I am pretty new to them). ;)

But I can't help feeling that there are a lot of more subtle things that I don't fully get yet.

As an example, if I had a distorted guitar part that is already well controlled in terms of peaks and variation, is there any use in compressing?

Would this tighten it up in any way? I don't understand how this would give it more 'punch' as it's....I'm not sure.

Would it color the sound at all, changing it in some way?

I have just bought a Sonalksis SV-315 comp. Can anyone give me advice on some of the subtleties that compressors might exhibit?

I'd appreciate all ideas, cheers, Ste.

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