kylen - The best way to look at Neodynium is... it lets you compress different levels of audio independently. Basically the zones represent volume ranges... if you wanted neodynium to function kinda like a normal compressor, you remove the other three zones, and leave one. However, what's cool is that by using the zones, you can apply different amounts of compression/expansion to different ranges of volume. It literally lets you extracts sounds you'd like to emphasis with ease. My description here probably doesn't do it justice, but the manual is really good at describing how it works... at which point I found it easier to understand than any compressor I've ever tried. Basically what you see in that graph is a visual representation of how the input audio on the left will be squeezed/expanded into the volume ranges on the right. Attack/Release are pretty much the sample as any comrpessor. Instead of a Multi-Band (frequency) compressor... it's like a Multi-Level (volume) comrpessor...
Gonna try one of the other examples... they are pretty squished, but I'll try...
That's a great idea 
cos sometimes I just wanna push the surrounding sound further back but not remove it (tho I pretty much removed it in this example). 
