Noam Wallenberg uses the CLA-76 to show how release time on a vocal compressor shapes emotional intimacy, not just gain reduction. Working through a real performance by Jennifer Hall, he demonstrates that the way compression opens back up after a loud syllable determines how close the next word feels to the listener.
The demonstration centers on a single phrase, "but forever in your mind's way." "Forever" hits loud and gets clamped down, and then the release determines whether "mind's way" feels close or far. Dial it too slow, and the vocal starts to drift away. The before-and-after comparison makes the difference easy to hear.
His framing throughout is that these aren't technical decisions - they're emotional ones. If the release is off, the phrase doesn't hit the same way, regardless of what the meters say.