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Sure. I'm completely aware of this, but with suitable ratio and attack/
release times you can usually achieve a measure of dynamic control without
excessive "loss of life."

I thought you would. You've been around for a while. But "usually" and
"excessive" are the operative (or non-operative) words here.

You might have missed my original point -- the concern was that even with
NO GAIN REDUCTION, with the audio just looped through, I noted this sonic
loss with the RNC.

That's unusual. I don't notice it with my RNC, but then I don't go
A/B-ing everything I connect. I only patch in the compressor when I
think I need it, and then I expect a certain change in the sound
because that's what I'm after. Since most of what I decide needs
compression either has too much "sparkle" and I'm trying to get rid of
it or it's something rather flat that needs the attack punched up a
bit.

It may simply be apples and oranges. The RNC hits a price point that
perhaps means some corner cutting in certain areas that isn't a
big problem in many applications but is apparent in others.

But isn't the DBX 1066 even less expensive? I don't think it's a
matter of cost, it's what the designer was after. Chances are you
wouldn't like an LA2 where you like the dbx either. If you've found
the right tool for your applications, there's no reason not to use it.
I'm not knocking it.

As I said, the actual gain reduction control performance of the RNC seems
quite nice

And this is why people seem to like it. I have an RNC, a dbx 160X, and
a dbx 166. It really doesn't matter to me which one I use, if any. If
whichever one I try doesn't do anything for me, I don't think any of
the others would, either, because compression isn't really what I'm
after. Dave Martin has about 25 different compressors and he uses them
as tone shaping devices, often with less than 2 dB of gain reduction
on peaks. As a compressor, it really isn't doing anything noticable,
but as a box that the signal passes through, it does what he's after.

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