Column: Mixing tools for captivating audio content

NewscastStudio: While a few die-hards still argue that compressors are for wimps who never cared to master the art of gain riding, most operators happily rely on dynamic processors these days. This is already one—admittedly mild—flavor of assisted mixing where a routine task is left to the console’s algorithms, simply because too many signals are involved and there is so much else to do.