There is a scourge infesting your music with its awfulness, and you probably don't even know. It's called compression, and it's compacting your music into a muddled mess. What started as a useful tool ...

Equalizers and compressors are common guitar processors. You insert them in a track to shape the guitar’s tone and dynamics, respectively, but they can’t react intelligently to your playing. For ...

For the last 10 years, sound has been mixed and mastered at ever increasing loudness levels, crushing the natural vibrancy of music. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as ...

What makes music, TV shows, or movies sound good or bad? A lot of it has to do with dynamic range. The term Dynamic Range is used in both video and audio. In video, Dynamic Range is the “distance” ...