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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The Threshold defines “when” compression will occur. It’s the exact point (in decibel) at which the detector will kick in and nag the processor to turn the sound down.

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Most VCA (Voltage Controlled Amplifier) based compressor circuits tend to look somewhat like this. This is a feedforward style design, where the detector is fed before the processing stage by the input. Usually VCA comps can be quite transparent when used in practice.

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The ratio of a compressor defines the “amount” of compression the processor stage will do. So for a ratio of 10:1 (read ten-to-one) we say that “for every 10dB (decibel) above the threshold, only 1dB will remain.” 1:1 is linear, and means no change will take place.

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

3 types of dynamic processing: Downward compressors control the loudest part of your signal. Limiting prevents going any louder than a defined point. Overcompression drastically reduces sounds that are too loud.

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Layering multiple compression configurations has drastically changed the way I mix. Especially for vocals and bass design! Last year I spent a great deal of my time delving into dynamics processing and experimenting with compressor combos. Which netted great results! 🎣

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Focus on the difference, you’ll only see the difference. Focus on the similarity, you’ll only see the similarity. Positive or negative, neutral or chaotic. Pick the plants you choose to water cautiously. 🌱

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Audio Plugin Deals and Freebies @plugindeals.net · 21/01/2026

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I’ve often gotten this intense nervousness before joining a VC (voice chat). Especially if I’m still kinda the new guy. 😀 The what if game can get, intense. I’ve been practicing getting over it for the last year. If you struggle with this, know that you’re not alone. 💪

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Ah! I was not a aware of strudels existence! My mistake, thank you so much for the correction! 🙇‍♂️

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Supercollider + vcv is so big brain 🧠 Awesome stuff 😎👍

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

New Wood Block Snare tutorial on Twitter. Will upload here when I get home today. Was in a bit of a rush this morning 😅

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Bluesky friends were shy today. 🥰 I wish you a happy next day shy-friends. 🙏🏻

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Fun little rough test! I present to you, virtual in the box band: 🎸 Song: Light Shard - Forgiven (Broken Again) Main Tools: Dreamtonics - Synthsizer V (Vocals) [HXVOC] Ample Sound - J Bass (Bass) Geoffrey Day - SurrealGuitars (Serum2 Guitars) BFDDrums - BFD3 (Drums)

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Are you there? 😶 Did we listen? 👂🏽 Where's the sun? 🔥 What's my vision? 👁️

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sab3r 🗡️ @sab3r.music · 11/07/2025

surprise! my remix of Alohaii's "Better Luck Next Time" is out now! I decided to turn it into a duet remix, thank you for listening and I hope you love it ❤️

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Kug @kug-sys.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Cool part of another wip

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Video Quality Setting: D̶͈͉̀̐̏̇̄͂̂͌͊̕̕͜͜I̴͇̯̼̣̙̰̳̲̗̫͂̀̈͊̒͌G̷̨̪͉͍̼͇̬͉̝͌̆̊͑́͗̾͌̋̕͝͝I̵̩̼̒̏̄͒́͒͘T̴͎̱̭̦͈̠͉̱͆͐̔̈́́̆͌͜A̷̡̨̘̤͍̜̭̔̋̃̈̕̕͜L̴͓̭͈͉̲̤͇̗͌̏̍̇͌̌̈́̃̾͂̆̕͘̚ͅͅ

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Amazing compressor. Love using it on every mix 🙏

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

A love story. 🥰 (may be subject to change)

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

No music related post today, sorry! But here: take these butterflies! 🦋 You gain: several butterflies! ChaChaan! 🎺

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Lol, I paid for premium. (At least the cheap one with more text and better video) I'm honestly waiting for Bluesky premium to launch so I can switch to doing longform content here 😅

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I didn't know that the pow-r dithering algos were modelled after a physical hardware dithering system. 🤔

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Sometimes it really do be like that. I've been rewriting the same song for the past 3 years. 😅 The library sounds like such a wonderful place to figure things out. Cool and quiet. Everyone focused on their own things.

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csx42 @csx42.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

one of the many discoveries that have taken place throughout the mixing and mastering for my album

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Yep, you can also De-ess before for vocals/cymbals. Helps prevent hissyness.

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

woah this looks really high quality! How'd you make this? Linear frequency spectrum+harmor? or is there another way? 🤔🤔🤔

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Listened to a bunch of heavy stuff with the homies. Decided to try making something :P

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Need vocal air? Using Bitspeek on a send, set to 100% noise, and highpassed to 10k works wonders on Lead vocals!

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

This is made using 100% only my voice :D (Yes, including the drums)

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Light Shard | The Audio NPC 🚶‍♂️ @lightshard.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I made a dumb thing today :D ❌EU KHAY EFF EkshCLEUSHIV ❌ This is in fact, not one of those :>

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