The dbx 560A is the 500 Series version of one of the most-used compressors in studios around the world, the dbx 160A. But lots of things happen in the background that you should be aware of. It chops off the high pitch. It´s either a Maximizer (like a limiter with a gain input, like the Waves L1, L2 or L3) or an upward compressor. For instance, if you compress … … This is optional, but applying these filter may increase the amplitude of your voice over. This full-featured dynamics controller is a studio workhorse: use it to tame peaks and signal spikes, use it for gentle smoothing and sonic fortification, or even use it as a brickwall limiter … So if you see spikes in your waveform that touches the ceiling, then use the hard limiter. This way the gain reduction doesn’t keep hitting the voice in the same spot over and over, or all at once. Maybe the attack and/or release values are different for one of the many layers. An upward compressor boosts a signal below a certain threshold value, instead … — Limiting. Instead the voice is gently reshaped and refined from recording to final mix. A compressor makes it convenient to automatically and quickly affect an entire audio file. dbx 560A. Some people use limiters …