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Playfair Audio Dynamic Grading

Imagine a compressor without attack or release controls, no threshold or ratio. This is exactly what you get with Playfair Audio's new plugin. Dynamic Grading, which aims to approach compression as if it had just been invented. How would dynamics processing work if it had just been dreamt up in 2022?

The plugin starts by displaying two histograms, one for input and one for output, each taking readings of average level of the incoming signal against how long that average level is maintained. It's hard to

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