eli5: how do compresors work? Audio related.

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eli5: how do compresors work? Audio related.

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I won’t get into the electronics of it. But compressors dereases the volume of louder parts of a recording to keep them from overpowering quieter parts. The goal is to make all the sounds roughly the same volume, which reduces gaps in audio when some sounds are quieter or the volume of a voice or instrument varies.