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John Williamson wrote: -show quoted text -
"I have never found the need to do that.

A bit of mild compression to lift the lowest levels is all it's ever
taken, given careful recording and post production work. On multi track
recordings, a touch of compression on the vocals and careful
optimisation of background instrument levels with some gain riding will
be needed, given a good performance. If it's Fred from down the pub with
his mates playing while they're drunk out of their skulls at an open mic
night, then all gloves are off, it's multi track close mic'd with
autotune on all channels except maybe the drums and I do whatever needs
doing to get it to sound reasonable. "

Thanks John! This response qualifies for a 'sticky' in
any studio wall.


"Then again, I don't work on Techno, Electro, Rap or Drum'n'Bass. "

The abuse I described, to which you responded, is
rendered to most genres, including Country and dare
I say Classical nowadays, sadly. And not just the ones
listed in your reply.