The Explosion (in: Production Technique…)
By: kernaudioio
8 May 11:57
“explosion” is rarely about loudness, it’s about the gap before it imo. the section that explodes feels bigger because the bar before it was smaller. if you sidechain-duck or filter-narrow the leadup for the last 4 to 8 bars, the drop reads twice as wide on the same peak level.
three concrete moves that compound:
1. parallel compression on the drum bus, not series. a heavily-squashed parallel buss blended in at 20-30% gives you the density without losing the transient energy. fabfilter pro-c 2…
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