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If you change my AGC settings to be a -4.0 dB Target Output,...
If you change that setting (Target Output) it has much more influence than the
naked dB difference between the original output value and the new, because you change the weighting (balance) of quiet (old) and loud tracks (the individual distance to the desired target output).
Yeah. My point though was that if you swap our target output levels, my preset scales up very well and is able to keep pace, even with the gating level that I set. On the other hand, if I scale a preset that has a high target output down to the area of -12 (bear in mind EBU R128 is supposed to be -23 LUFS, or -23 dBFS) and it doesn't have gating, the AGC will push the levels up way too fast in certain cases and thus has to rely on the spike protection that Hans built in.
I did what I did with that gate specifically to address the situation in "The Pretender", and it works well, both at the lower target output level and also when scaled up to higher output levels. With that in mind, I think a negative criticism based on that factor is unwarranted, because it fails to compare the scalability.
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IMO it would be better to have an additional offset option in AGC (+/- dB post target output).
Not sure. All I know is that to maintain smooth AGC behavior, gating it (or possibly even lower up speeds) is necessary at lower target output levels.