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On a similar note: Generally speaking, is it typical for release times for compression to be longer than those for limiting?
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I'm sure that everyone has their own ways, but for me with brick wall limiting yes, "generally speaking" shorter release times for mastering the stereo track, but it's not all that simple. For example multi-band I tend to wind up with longer release times on the low end and shorter on the higher bands. It's also highly content and instrument dependent. On the tracking and mixing end, compressing bass, violins, cellos, bowed instruments that have have long sustain and long fade outs, extremely long release times, sometimes 700-800ms. Snare, kick, percussive instruments very short release times. More like 10-50ms. The percussive attack on a piccolo snare is only around 8ms after that the level has fallen way down, the over ring fades rapidly for around 100ms. Kick, the attack is around 25ms and the over ring rides to around 200ms. Fast attack times are just as important with transient instruments as release times are, because 95% of the energy is in a very short timespan. I often get good results on snare with 0 attack time. Bottom line it's hard to give a general answer without hearing the content and knowing the application. I just listen and tweak until I get what I want.