Practice Session and Examples of Compression

  There is a very nice article at the Wall Street Journal about the increasing amounts of compression found in today’s music. Check out my previous post on the topic. The WSJ article uses past and present Metallica albums as the focus of consideration,...

Compression in Music and the Artist's Message

The technique of compression is frequently used in editing music. Basically, one takes the quiet sounds of a piece of music and makes them louder, while essentially leaving the loud parts the same. Compression can be useful when using a wide range of dynamics over a...