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Originally Posted by doorknocker  Slightly OT but I found the following part of the Andy Wallace interview quite interesting. You hear many folks say 'Don't compress the mix too much because radio will do it anyway and it will sound better when you don't' while AW clearly does the opposite:
'A long time ago, I learned that the great amount of compression in radio broadcasts was seriously changing how the low end [of my mixes] sounded and the balance: how much low end was there, how much of the bass I could hear and other things. That's when I really started experimenting with a substantial amount of stereo compression. And I found that if I had something compressed ahead of time and was happy with the sound of it, the additional compression from the radio station had less effect. So I sort of felt that I was doing damage control, as well as the fact that I liked the sound' | yeah,...that part really caught me by surprise,...
not that ALL of his work is very dynamic, but some of the older stuff breathes really well (think, adolescents)
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"can we make the guitar louder,..and the snare, and kick,..and maybe the bass to, oh and the vocals, and maybe bring up the cymbals a little bit"
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