Re: Instantaneous (analogue) compression of speech signals

From: John Larkin (john_at_spamless.usa)
Date: 01/06/05 

Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 20:19:42 -0800

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:21:14 +0000, John Woodgate
<jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

>Does anyone here have any experience of instantaneous (analogue)
>compression (aka soft clipping) of speech signals? I've been doing a
>little work on it but I'm unable to judge the resulting sound quality.
>Why do treble boost controls no longer have any audible effect for me?
>(;-)

If you could tolerate a time delay, you could do a very nice smooth
AGC thing without the clipping problem that results from a fast-attack
signal. A negative delay line (future predictor) would be handy here,
too.

John

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