Compression plug

The best place to use compression in ACID is at the track level. The danger of squashing a song into dynamic oblivion increases greatly when compression is used at the bus or project level. Sonic Foundry Track Compression is the simplest of the compression plug-ins. Using it usually results in an increase in the loudness of a track, although this isn t necessarily the case. To apply Track Compression ... 

Compression tends to increase background noise, especially during periods of silence. The Attack and Release controls can help eliminate this, but many times the only solution is to use a Noise Gate plug-in just after the Compression plug-in in the FX chain. 

If the solid in question is available only as a finely divided powder, it may be compressed into a porous plug so that the capillary pressure required to pass a nonwetting liquid can be measured [117]. If the porous plug can be regarded as a bundle of capillaries of average radius r, then from the Laplace equation (II-7) it follows that... 

In one extractor (FMC Inc.), the fmit is located between two cups having sharp-edged metal tubes at their base. The upper cup descends and the many fingers on each cup mesh to express the juice as the tubes cut holes in the top and bottom of the fmit. On further compression, the rag, seeds, and juice sacs are compressed into the bottom tube between the two plugs of peel. A piston moves up inside the bottom tube forcing the juice through perforations in the tube wall. A simultaneous water spray washes the peel oil expressed during extraction away from the peel as an oil—water emulsion the peel oil is recovered separately from the emulsion. 

Solid particulates are captured as readily as hquids in fiber beds but can rapidly plug the bed if they are insoluble. Fiber beds have frequently been used for mixtures of liqmds and soluble sohds and with soluble solids in condensing situations. Sufficient solvent (usually water) is atomized into the gas stream entering the collector to irrigate the fiber elements and dissolve the collected particulate. Such nber beds have been used to collect fine fumes such as ammonium nitrate and ammonium chloride smokes, and oil mists from compressed air. 

A plate used for holding plugs in place in compression molding. 

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