Enrico De Paoli Producer, Recording, Mixing and Mastering Engineer

Ray Charles, Stanley Jordan, Djavan, Jorge Vercillo

“This compressor does great soft-knee compression and does wonders as an expander. I use the expansion subtly, like a transient designer, even on the master buss; it really makes tracks jump out of the speakers into your face. Setting the filter with the C1-SC component helps as a corrective tool to soften harsh sounds without muffling the track. Using the gate with different thresholds for opening and closing avoids false triggering; in circuit language, this is called hysteresis and is reminiscent of the Neve V-Series channel gates. That feature, along with setting the sidechain filter, keeps my gate performing as I want it to.”