What Is Compression? - Compression Tutorial @TheAudioJourney
What Is Compression? - Compression Tutorial  @TheAudioJourney
Uploaded November 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
If you’re anything like me, you may have been confused about exactly what compression is doing to your audio, and you may still be a little in the dark. I’m going to give you a very quick run down of exactly what compression does, and then give you some videos go go on and learn this in more depth.

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On Cloud Sine // Compression youtu.be/pfK9rdghVK8
The Recording Revolution // Compression (Threshold and Ratio) - youtu.be/PQRH8GFM5zg

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