The amount of time it takes an effect, such as compression, to begin affecting the signal.

I'm wondering if there are some general attack times that you use for your compressor.

like what you normally shoot for on drums, vox, bass etc.

also can you add more make up gain than what you reduced with your threshold? so if your fader is at 0 db and you bring your threshold down by -10 can you add +11 db on your make up gain?

Here's a new twist on an old idea. Many months ago I posted with an idea for dynamically changing compression attack every time there was a peak in the treble frequencies (snare.) Well, I've revised that sytem to allow setting attack and release for both low bands and high bands of a single-band compressor.

I'm really praying someone out there understands how to use it. The guys in the shop don't even get it, the manual is just so unhelpful and cryptic. There seems nowhere else to turn to.