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Old 05-09-2010, 05:02 PM   #3 (permalink)
VEGANGELICA
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I don't like massive compression of the whole song, but using some seems to be a good tool to even out the dynamics changes in individual tracks. Still, I wish I could get compression to work better with my sound recording program and I haven't figured out the bugs yet. And I'd be willing to use a lot of compression depending on the type of song. Yet if I had to vote, I'd say I'd want songs to have more dynamics.

Just today I was playing an orchestral piece by John Zorn that's impact is derived almost solely from the change in dynamics. If such a song were compressed, it would sound dead.
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