[hduncan]

I appreciate and respect all of the responses thus far- the reasons started this was because when reading threads on compression throughout the forum, all of the engineers seem to complain about squashed songs and everyone appears to have a similar idea of what this "squashed" sound is like- that's all I wanted to hear.. But since everyone is so adamant that I figure it out myself I'll have to to so...

They say that todays music of badly squashed and that back in the 90s things were better, but I've tried to listen to examples of what everyone considers to be free versus overcompressed and I can't hear the difference- leading me to believe that squashing the life out of a track can be subtle to the untrained ear.

So I thought that A/Bing a sample would be a great way to pick up ok this and hear what people are talking about- as it could take me years to figure out. Ultimately I'd probably learn from watching another engineer as I'm sure many of you have- this would be no different. Comparing a clip well compressed versus overcompressed like most of todays music I think would help beginners out immensley.