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I would open up whatever plug-in I saw on YouTube and scroll through the presets until I found something that made my tracks sound better.

But I had no idea how to make any of that happen. Instructors had given me countless demonstrations, but I could never really hear the difference between the various settings-especially when it came to the attack and release times.įor months, I would add a compressor to my tracks because I knew I was “supposed to.” I knew that compressors were used to reduce the dynamic range of a signal, which can make tracks sound big and fat, or punchy and exciting. I can still remember when I actually heard the sound of compression for the first time.