I’ve been making music since 2009 and I’ve never had a proper listening equipment until end of 2022, so that’s a long road of never knowing how to properly master my songs (construction is nice to me but mastering was impossible)
I need to know compression which is what I’m always criticized, though even that one meme comparing a compressor to your mother to explain how it works doesn’t get inside my brain
and i feel like my ears can’t pick frequencies well to equalise anything, my biggest issue in mastering
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Here’s a basic way to think about it… Imagine if you had a song that was quiet during the verses and very loud during the chorus. In order to hear the verses better, you crank up the volume. But when the chorus comes on it’s way too loud. So you run it through a compressor which reduces the volume of the chorus, so it is now only as loud as the verses. Now the listener can crank up the volume and the chorus and the verses all play at the same volume. Pretty slick, right? Compression can make it easier to hear the quiet parts of a song without distorting the sound of the loud parts.
Except…many engineers want to people to be able to play their songs loud (loud songs blasting out of your speakers get more attention) but they go too far and squash down everything so much the sound gets muddy.
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