For the genre of music u doin you gotta remember the peak RMS[Root Mean Square] indicated in your compressor. [Compton]WATTS, hehe -11 to -9
That is loud. I really don't see why music has to be that loud. That's what the volume control is for isn't it ? I loaded Gin n Juice from Snoop's Doggystyle the other day. Peak RMS was @ -15db and shit sounds cool to this day. Shows u it's more about mixing that anything else.
But ya, loudness war ne. lol !!!
u got a point that why the Multiband compress is left for engineers with mastering hardware 4 du. u dayz & been doin it 4, ya... dayz
individually compressing frequency bands accordingly.. mixing..
The old lps were ait.. technology did the boom & that's why prestine compressors evolved & signal processing also with software doin it's round in algortihmically mapping
electronic processing to the virtual domain. Mos Def said it. "It's all mathematics"
popped in some really old school ish and the P. RMS was well below to what we have now with improved signal to noise ratios\sensitivity & power handling.
Death Row engineers had quite a lavish studio pre & post budget I guess... All bout the bands...
'Bobby Digital', hehe