[Scott Dorsey]

PStamler wrote:
Hi folks:

A lot of the early compressor-limiters used a feedback design (that it, the=
cobntrol voltage was derived from signals picked off after the gain contro=
l element: the Teletronics LA-2 and LA3, the UA 1176, etc. Feedforward comp=
ressors, as I understand it, didn't start to arrive until the 1960s and 197=
0s.

Think of this as having feedback around the control path. If the gain on
the gain element drifts a lot, it will be compensated for. In the case of
incandescent lamp + cds cell elements, they drift an enormous amount.

The other nice thing is that it softens the knee of the compressor.
--scott

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