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Do you want it louder? You’ve got a volume control, don’tcha? Did somebody think that people would no longer want to reach over to their volume control to turn it up? If you want it louder you turn it up. If you want it quieter you turn it down. If you buss compress everything, when the kick drum hits it’s sucking back everything from the mix. I don’t want to hear stuff pump. I want my dynamics intact that I recorded. I don’t want everything to be one dynamic.
Jay Graydon, on the Loudness War
