RECORDING WEEK 2025: Most people with an interest in music production or recording probably have at least a loose idea of what compression does. Put simply, it ‘squeezes’ incoming audio by reducing the dynamic peaks in an audio signal over a certain threshold.
This reduces the dynamic range of the audio – ie the difference between the loudest parts and the quietest parts – and as a result can make the overall level sound louder, since you can raise the volume of a track without worrying about clipping.
