Ah, but it does increase perceived loudness of the sound as a whole, due to the compressed body now being louder, and with more perceived sustain. Also, this is where the post-limiting comes in. You may not want to limit the attack all the way down to the level of the body, as that may allow it to blend into the mix too much. The pumping effect helps here though too, as it makes a more obvious difference between the attack and body.

Just want to follow up on Bronto's remarks.



Correct. The pros always use 3-4 compressors per channel. Sometimes up to 6 or 7. And, they never use the ones built in to the DAW. Usually, they buy the entire Waves package and use as many different types as possible to get that extra "pro" sound.



That's right. Dynamic range reduction is just one of those things that mere mortals like us will never understand. You have to be some rich hip hop producer like Puff Daddy or someone like that to understand this kind of thing. It's top secret and if you ever really did come to understand it, you'd get assassinated like Tupac.



Yeah, I heard Skrillex uses Massive. That means that the only possible way to get a sound like his is to buy Massive. If you don't have massive, you'll be completely inferior.

But, there are some more points:

Live's summing engine is complete garbage.

Yeah, you should always bound all of your tracks out of Live and import them in to Protools because Live just isn't able to "Sum" the tracks properly. You see, what Live does when it mixes two tracks together is it randomly insert hiss and white noise and removes the frequencies that you like from the mix. No "pro" would ever use Live for summing.

Wow. Would it be possible to cram more facetiousness in to that post?