Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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🎚️ The Reverse Engineer: mastering.com
📚 Scholarship application: form.typeform.com/to/A7FQWOoq

📂 Compression quadrant cheat sheet: mastering.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/COMPRESSION-QUADRANT-v2.pdf

Artist - Cole Ritter (instagram.com/colewesleyritter/)

Chapters

00:00:00 Intro
00:00:20 Introducing the model
00:01:40 Fast attack / fast release
00:06:52 Fast attack / slow release
00:08:42 Slow attack / fast release
00:12:42 Slow attack / slow release
00:17:21 Comparing different quadrants
00:19:59 Everything else falls into place
00:21:20 Peak vs RMS
00:22:07 Feedback vs feedforward
00:26:23 Compression parameters in each quadrant
00:30:25 Mixbus compression
00:33:23 Punchy compression
00:34:29 Gooey compression
00:37:48 Thick compression
00:40:51 Clipping
00:42:42 Clipping vs transient shaping
00:44:36 Mix example
00:47:47 Drum example
00:52:54 Vocal example
01:01:07 Mixbus compression example
01:07:38 No right or wrong
01:08:48 Simplicity
01:09:43 Outro