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all music on the radio today is heavily compressed...no secret there... But maybe what your referring to is the broadcast limiters and things they have at the radio station
But on stuff like MOP...they've almost always had distortion on their vocals, so i guess thats what they're going for. Sometimes it works, other time not so much. Some of the d block stuff with distortion sounds real good, although i can't think of any names of tracks at the moment, the one off of the latest Gang Starr album comes to mind.
Me personally, I've noticed that a lot of preamps sound the best when they're right on the edge of distorting, so i tend to get pretty close. With that comes the increased chance of distortion, especially with someone like MOP who is screaming all the time or someone with a lot of dynamics. Thats when a good pre comes in handy, because the distortion will be a lot better sounding off a good pre rather than a not-so-good pre. But sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't...depends on artist/song/maybe even mic or other part of the chain?
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