multibandcompressor

so you thought you wanted it loud?

It’s a standard multi-band compressor built by amplifying the amplitude data in an FFT. I broke it out into three bands so that it could act differently on the highs mids and lows. Then I built a frequency sweeping LFO in just for fun!

Test song is Waves by White Bear Polar Tundra

Starting clean and then getting progressively more crunched through 7 presets. the LFO starts on preset 7

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https://whitebearpolartundra.bandcamp.com/album/filter-the-noise

shameless plug for a friend’s band here.  RIP WBPT