Quote Originally Posted by Adverse
Quote Originally Posted by SummerOfSam
mastered the art of compression................
compression isn't really an art and if it is (or at least if people think it is)... we're all in big trouble. i mean setting a high ratio, pushing the gain and slapping a fast attack on a bass line or lower mids isn't anything praiseworthy (i'd rate a final mixdown and equalization much higher than compression. anyways the real compressing really goes down at the cut imo). these are things one would think you should know before even setting your ideas to the canvas. post has nothing to do with pre imo. so many times i've heard people post produce their track before the the pre production has even been scrutinized.

back to the topic.. to me adam made some really good tracks (conform 12 anyone?)...and has proven diverse in influence and as far as dj'ing goes he's definitely one to check out. whether he deserves exaltation.. eh i'm not so sure. he gets respect any how.
true, true. compressing samples isn't exactly rocket science.

but that uber-compressed sound is, i think, part of the reason he got so big, and why he has been imitated so much... has to do with the size of the sounds. there were plenty of good percussive techno tracks out there before drumcode, but adam (and others on planet rhythm) seemed to make bigger tracks.

probably some of this also has to do with all this coinciding with vst software technology...putting certain sound processing tools in the hands of people who might not have been able to afford it before...so more people actually had the ability to imitate it than before...