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Originally Posted by
gyraf
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the feeling of "progressive ratio" in most vari-mu's come from the way we usually try to control the less-than-linear gain-vs-current behavior of remote cutoff tubes. This makes it hard to set sharply-exact ratios - and most often we fix this by adding a soft knee to the compression onset.
That said, the Threshold function is simply the sidechain's AC gain before rectification, and Ratio is the DC gain of the sidechain signal post rectification AND soft-knee/threshold voltage constant
The G22's ratios are "real" in the sense that they span all the way from 1:1 (no-op, at full CCW) to somewhere around inf:1 (and often a bit beyond). And yes, the soft knee results in higher ratios at large transgressions of the threshold value than smaller ones..
First and foremost it's a unit that rewards a "take a minute to listen"- approach to settings: With hands on, you'll find that it behaves much more intuitively than what can be conveyed by technical descriptions.
I hope this helps..?
Jakob Erland
(who has commercial interests in this)
I have the G22 in my rack and working on my first project with it.
I am writing this with a tear in my eye. Your gear is just incredible. From the aesthetics of the manufacturing and design, to the sound, to the interface - it not only sounds professional, but makes you feel professional. I very rarely feel like a child anymore, I often feel either like things and experiences in my life are either expected or just not new anymore, but working with your G22 makes me feel that spark that I did when I was little and first started playing around with instruments.
Its truly just top class. The response, the tone, the controls - I was asking about things like ratio in this thread without it in front of me, but working with it the G22 is so intuitive. It is rare that gear responds like you would think, even when people write out things like "Attack 10ms" or whatever it never really feels that way, but just some hash marks around a knob always feels true to life with your equipment.
Thank you Jakob, I hope you know how much your gear makes the music of the world better