https://www.musical-u.com/learn/hearing-effects-dynamics-part-1-compressors/
Compressors, limiters, single band, multi band, soft knee, hard knee, ratios, attack, release… on and on and on.
These terms sound more like medical tools/procedures used in gastrointestinal bypass surgeries! Despite some of their more gruesome sounding names, these are all terms related to, and describing dynamics – and dynamics control in audio.
Let’s define a few items of interest.
https://www.musical-u.com/learn/hearing-effects-dynamics-part-1-compressors/