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Default Why feedback compressors?

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Are there any vintage analog hardware compressors that use feed forward?

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The dbx compressors were feedforward. If I recall correctly, the dbx RMS
detector and VCA were temperature-compensated in such a way that they could
work together to get stable characteristics even when the environmental
temperature varied.

--Bob Orban