Re: Compressing a quad-channel signal

On Sat, Jun 27, 2026 at 04:25:47PM +0200, Jeanette C. wrote:

> I have to compress a 4-channel signal. This is in the mastering stage.
> Because I do it all in Csound, I have to take care of the niceties myself.
> 
> The Csound compressor has an explicit sidechain input. Should I use a scaled
> down mix of all channels as the sidechain inputs to the separate channels or
> just sidechain each channel by itself?

- On what signals is this compressor supposed to work ?
- What do you want to achieve ?
- Why use a sidechain at all ?

Ciao,

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FA