Most of us set attack and release by feel, then blame the ratio when the drums stop grooving. But those two knobs aren't tone controls. They're timing controls, and your song already told you what the timing should be.

One number does most of the work: 60000 divided by your tempo. That's your beat in milliseconds. At 120 BPM it's 500, so eighths are 250 and sixteenths are 125. Suddenly the release knob has numbers on it that mean something.

New post covers why lining release up with the grid fixes hits that change weight bar to bar, why a slower attack usually gives you more punch than a fast one, and the two places where tempo math stops helping.

Read it here → https://www.soundgym.co/blog/item?id=compressor-attack-release-tempo