MID-SIDE BALANCE CONTROL - FUSE COMPRESSOR

Hi, I was just over on the Discord to ask whether Fuse Compressor has a Mid-Side balance control, and Ben suggested I come here to park my request. For reference and to give you the background see this discussion:

https://discord.com/channels/1192576680997433354/1192576681723035690/1497809019145031710

The situation is this: Fuse Compressor has a mid-side mode, and it has the ability to delink its two channels. (L/R in stereo mode, or mid and side in mid-side mode). But it lacks the ability to pan/balance the amount of compression being done on the two channels, once they are being run de-linked.

In normal, stereo mode, no big deal. It would be a pretty odd case where somebody would want to assign more (or all) compression to the left channel as compared to the right. However… in mid-side mode, that no longer applies. In fact, the most common use case for a mid-side compression setup is where the low/sub sides of the signal are dipping occasionally into antiphase territory and need to be corrected. In those situations, the mid-side compressor is skewed/balanced to have stronger (or only) compression on the sides, while applying less (or no) compression to the mids.

On the discord, we discussed that this can be done with some creative routing in the DAW for Fuse Compressor standalone. But my actual situation/use case is that I am making presets for Current, with Fuse Compressor as my onboard mid-side compressor. But it lacks the mid-side balance control needed to focus more/all of the compression to the sides to help control antiphase issues as they inherently crop up in the presets. So this goes beyond Fuse Compressor itself or workarounds in the DAW, to being an actual functionality enabling request for Current itself: the ability to dial in (in mid-side mode in particular) how much relative compression is being done on each channel. sometimes folks will want all the compression on the sides, but none on the mids. Other times, all in the mids, none in the sides. And yet other times, some balance in between of the two.

If you need an example of a compressor that has this ability, take a look at Pro C2. That has a simple panning knob for mid side that goes from 100% mids/0% sides, to 0% mids/100% sides and any variable amount in between. This is what makes a mid-side compressor so valuable. Being able to compress mids and sides separately in variable amounts in relation to each other, after de-linking the two compressor channels from each other.

If you have any questions, probably best to hit me up over on Discord to get my attention. Thanks.

-Keith.