Questions about latency, signal flow and de-essers

[puppethead]

Ok, I have a couple of questions about de-essers, signal flow and latency within pro tools. I'll start with the easy questions first:

1. Does pro tools 6.1 allow you to detect the amount of latency each plugin is using? If so, how do you do this, because I tried clicking on the volume and while holding all sorts of button conbos (shift, alt, ctrl, K) and none of them worked.

2. When a signal goes through a compressor plugin and the gain has been made up, if one wants to increase the volume, is it better, in theory, to increase it from the compressors output or is it better to increase the volume from the fader? Does it matter?

3. When de-essing within pro tools I rely on automation, because plugin de-essers either don't act fast enough or act too fast and process much of the signal. I'cve tried side chaining, but the results were less than steller. As I said, I usually rely on automation, but I read on here that Rail said he uses cross fades to de-ess the signal instead of automation (due to automation not being sample accurate.) My question is how do you use cross fades to do this?

I also posted this in another section of the board, but after seeing that it has been two days, over 40 views and no responses, I figured I post it here to see if I could get better results.

[wolfskin]

Puppet

1. My understanding is that there is no PDC (plug-in delay compensation) and no way within PT to accurately measure latency within PT LE.

2. With compression, once a 'good' sounding compressor is set, I would increase the volume using the fader rather than the compressor output. I won't explain the science behind this at this time, however, this is just one opinion...

3. I haven't had much luck with deessing in PT, so I'll wait to hear other opinions along with you...