# Spectro as a multi-band comp?

**URL:** https://forums.stillwellaudio.com/t/spectro-as-a-multi-band-comp/87
**Category:** Spectro
**Created:** [October 16, 2007, 1:26am UTC](https://forums.stillwellaudio.com/t/spectro-as-a-multi-band-comp/87 "2007-10-16T01:26:15Z")
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### Author: ![darjama](https://forums.stillwellaudio.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@darjama](https://forums.stillwellaudio.com/u/darjama)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2007, 1:26am UTC](https://forums.stillwellaudio.com/t/spectro-as-a-multi-band-comp/87/1 "2007-10-16T01:26:15Z")

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I see in the descriptions for spectro that it can act as a multiband comp, but I don’t see how to do this. How can you make spectro reduce the volume based on a threshhold & ratio?

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### Author: ![schwa](https://forums.stillwellaudio.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@schwa](https://forums.stillwellaudio.com/u/schwa)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2007, 2:36am UTC](https://forums.stillwellaudio.com/t/spectro-as-a-multi-band-comp/87/2 "2007-10-16T02:36:44Z")

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In Spectro, you can “ride” a frequency band by selecting hot areas within the band and reducing gain, to achieve the same result as a multiband compressor.

I guess it is a bit hyperbolic to call that multi-band compression though, so I’ve taken that line out of the web page description.