venusaur

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Technically volume and gain and compression are separate things but they are related. Mixing process is generally where you adjust volume or gain on individual tracks and you can apply compression on individual tracks as well. Compression generally acts as “glue” during the mastering process to bring levels of individual tracks closers together by applying it to the master track. Very high level explanation.

I’m not familiar with musicians having much input on the mastering process. Could be their decision to not be involved. Before mastering though is mixing and musicians have a say in that, but not always.

Genres generally get compressed or limited differently and especially over the times music has become more compressed and louder.

Sorry I didn’t answer your questions exactly.

I often find that once I get good at on old version of something I appreciate both the advances of the new thing and the simplicities of the old. Some things are so bleeding edge tech that the new is better in almost as ways, like drones. I got into flying during pandemic and would never prefer the old tech except maybe analog vs digital for specific use cases.

Would be funny to see a version of this in which they’re trying not to use AI. I believe in the original they’re trying not to eat their cookies.