How Loud Should My Drums Be? And Other Unanswerable Questions @DanWorrall

Dan Worrall | How Loud Should My Drums Be? And Other Unanswerable Questions @DanWorrall | Uploaded November 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
In which I share perhaps the most important mixing advice so far: how to get your mixes "more dynamic", when you're already being very apring with compression? How to approach a mix with a method? And of course, how loud should your drums be?

Music is "Impostor Syndrome" from my album of the same name, available in all the usual places. Bandcamp link:

dan-worrall.bandcamp.com/album/impostor-syndrome

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