<p>However, I also share that other author's opinion that many people do explain this element of a compressor's action inaccurately in tutoritals -- and I even felt the need to check back over some of my own writing to reassure myself that I hadn't inadvertently propagated this myth personally! Fundamentally, though, I don't think it really matters in most cases which technical explanation you have in your mind, because either way in practice you'd set up the compressor in precisely the same manner, I reckon.</p>