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Karpmentalise
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I'm not familiar with this Elysia unit but I don't think it is two compressors in series. More likely the Auto-fast control activates a peak detector so it becomes a dual-detector circuit (RMS and Peak rather than just RMS). This is why it will still let some peaks through rather than something like our Brick Lane in POLISH mode (the WHITE polish is a true analogue brickwall limiter that will not let any peaks through when set to minimum attack time). The closest that we have to this in the Brick Lane 500 is TAME which has a Triple-detector (Peak, RMS, and Slow Leveling) and then gives you a large attack and release range to work with (1000x range!!!)
Thank you! I believe the Elysia works something like that. As I understand it, if it detects a signal over -3 dBu (I'm assuming dBu, I don't know), it automatically reduces the attack to the minimum setting (0.01 ms). Otherwise, it uses whatever attack time you specify. This does a pretty good job of catching peaks, but it's still limited to whatever ratio you set. It's sort of a best available analog option for a single compressor that does the job of two. If the TAME mode's triple detection allowed it to react to those peak detections differently, that would be neat, but I understand that's a whole different can of worms and you are probably already locking down the features. A pair of Brick Lanes would still be a worthwhile investment, I imagine, so no biggie.