I’m confused on some of this as well.
Can someone explain to me in the Track Compressor dialog the following:
1) What does Input Gain mean?
2) What does Output Gain mean?
3) If I take the Threshold to say, -24db, what does that do? Do that mean that whenever the sound level goes ABOVE -24db that it will compress (ie, lower) the sound? If so, is it the INPUT or OUTPUT level that determines when the sound gets compressed?
4) What exactly does the Amount (x:1) mean? If I set it to 2 or 3, that means 2:1 or 3:1 of what?