Your message is just a wall of text with paragraph breaks when rendered with my terminal mail client. Just replying to the Subject of your post; fmiser has some EXCELLENT explanations of compand in the list archives: https://public-inbox.org/sox-users/20100922043937.778a1914.fmiser@xxxxxxxxx/ https://public-inbox.org/sox-users/20090829011522.cf27e6ee.fmiser@xxxxxxxxx/ I've found his posts extremely informative when learning sox myself. _______________________________________________ Sox-users mailing list Sox-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sox-users