When enabling parallel compression is the dry signal affected by the makeup gain setting? For example, if I increase makeup gain by 18dB, enable parallel compression and engage the compressor, then turn the wet signal to -inf and the dry to 0dB, is the dry signal affected by the 18dB gain setting? I guess the more general version of that question is whether the dry signal is affected by ANY of the compressor settings (assume ‘no’).
Next question… if parallel compression is enabled, and assuming I have something like a perfect sine wave at 0dB coming from the preamp, then if both the wet and dry signal are added together (and the wet signal is held at 0dB by a combination of the variables), then the total signal would be +3dB? The more general version of that question I think is whether most of you are reducing the wet and dry signals by 3dB each when you are setting them at the same level in order to not overdrive the output?
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