I’m in love, thank you so much Adam! I don’t feel like a stupid blond for the first time in a very long time since being on this production journey. Do you have some kind of a one on one program at all? Or some kind of a course ? I’m a singer songwriter and well wanna be producer .. I study it but not everything is covered and some things remain a mystery .

The one creative use of compression I hear especially in techno music is what's commonly known as "sidechaining". Essentially, there are 2 sounds happening at the same time, and one of those sounds has a compressor assigned to it. When the first sound is played, it's signal is sent to the "sidechain input" on the compressor, which lowers the volume of the other sound. This allows that first sound to basically stand out more in the mix as apposed to trying to "compete" with the other sounds, if you know what I mean. So in the world of techno music, that first sound might be a bass drum and the second sound might be a long sustaining bass note. So every time the bass drum comes in, it reduces the volume of that bass note, and if you set the compressor settings correctly, you really can get a very rhythmic volume fluctuation effect that goes directly in time with the music and it sounds freaken awesome! :) I really like how you sort of over-simplified the concept of compression, because really, the concept is really pretty simple in reality. Even the "ratio" setting on a compressor, which can really put someone off when you explain it in a very "geeky" way (as I have seen in many compression tutorials), isn't that complicated to understand! You made it waaaay easier to understand than many tutorials seam to make it; it seams overcomplicated but that's where many tutorials just go wrong. Sorry, but if I want to understand how a concept works, explain it with the assumption that I've got practically zero knowledge of the concept in the first place! Start with the very very basics and really explain exactly what's going on in plain freaken real world English, then get a little more technical when needed :)

Big video. Smashed it! 🙏🏻

This is awsome. Thx alot.

Great Info! But why didn't you use the actual la 2a legacy to demonstrate on how to use the la 2a legacy instead of using something else to describe it? Hard to follow that way. Thumbs up though.

Most so called HD music videos on You Tube are over compressed. You start to increase the volume to max and the distortion is so bad. Older recordings you can go from zero to max without distortion. If you want to hear the worst commercially produced CD, get a copy of REM Monster album. As soon as you increase to max volume it is very badly distorted. Hip Hop artists think the louder , the better, but they keep asking why the music isn't clear at loud volumes. You want to hear a good recording listen to Shopping Bag Lady by The Guess Who.