How to connect to a powered sub via compressor & mixer?

[mitchiemasha]

The other issue with cheap compressors.... The attack time isn't fast enough. Try it. Apply some compression and record the output into something that will show you a wave display. Set the fastest attack time. Add a lot of compression to make it stand out more. You will get very narrow transients that are let through. These transients are often inaudible but will result in clip light activity. Imagine running only 3db of compression, that's 3db sooner your clip light will be warning you about max volume. The transient can often be too small for the speaker to even react to, more problematic for tweeters due to the higher frequency content to make such a sharp audio curve/waveform/oscillation what ever!.


Compressors are only good for mics and pre 90's music, music that's more dynamic, the peaks in this music is a lot higher than the body and varied over time, uncompressed, this can lose you a lot of volume (perceived loudness) before clipping, unless running the old 3x amp power to speaker power ratio (which is very expensive)... Anything naughties+ has already been squished to death.