📡 🔱 🙆🏽 Studio Sound Processing Principles and Dynamic Compression Legends 🤛🏿 👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏻 🅰️

Have you ever wanted to understand the basic principles of sound processing - all those compressors, limiters, expansion and distortion? Transparency and lamp-like sound? I tried to put everything on the shelves about the sound itself and about what the studio systems do with it. Plus, briefly talk about those legends that, since the 1960s, have helped Jimmy Hendrix, Beatles, Beyonce, Rolling Stones become famous, and give examples of the sound they processed.

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