Need your thoughts on everyone's favorite subject: over-compression.
Lot's of times people will say a song is over-compressed, and I'll think, "eh it's passable. The hells so wrong with it?" How much of this is likely personal bias on their part? This is such a controversial topic and music is already so subjective, how can I form a solid opinion?
If the distortion is drastic, obviously I can tell because it's hard to miss. But the subtler effects of over compression? The negative effects leading up to that point of glaring obviousness? Couldn't tell ya... Never really bothered me.
I admit I have had moments when I have tested a mix in my car and it sounds like a cardboard cutout of what I sketched in my headphones; that's what I'm looking to avoid right? Thats "the bad sound?" Or is that something else?
At this point I feel like there may be flaws in my mixes because of all the care I take to avoid over-compressing. The deafness is making me overcompensate with other stuff. I'm a kind of neurotic worrier, with a tendency toward overkill I guess. I'm starting to get frustrated.
I need objectivity.
Good metrics? Good Meter Plugins(cheap please, I'm poor)? Tell-tale signs? Examples to follow? Examples not to follow? wtf even
Submitted December 26, 2016 at 08:10PM by fluffpile https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/5kgd6q/i_feel_like_im_deaf_to_dynamic_range/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Monday, December 26, 2016