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I am writing this reply from the standpoint of someone who is relatively new to audio engineering and mean this reply with all due respect, but........
I do know what records I like to listen to. And like many others (millions of others in fact) I love the sound of modern rock and production. Most of these records are have the snot squished right out of them and it's fine.
Listen to some of the newer productions like Green Day and even though the sound is crushed to hell it still makes you want to turn up the volume knob louder and louder.
Nothing sounds "real" by any means in a production like that but the effect is that all of the elements sound "huge'. The guitars and drums sound monsterous.The dynamics give a strong sense of energy to the songs because of how compressed they are!
If it wasn't compressed like it is I don't think that it would have the same impact.
I took an audio program and the engineer that owned the studio and ran that program had nearly identical standpoint in regards to the use of dynamic processing in audio production. For many months on a daily basis he conveyed the same message as you are doing here on Gearslutz.
But this message still doesn't make sense. If it sounds good...it's good. What is so wrong with that?
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