Originally Posted by
Metadog
it's taken me years to approach a decent understanding of compression - tend to use it a lot but fairly mild settings
it's well important in techno
sometimes on individual sounds, sometimes on groups
been getting into putting a limiter on the main output, just tickling it - keep those fills in check, means you can push the overall level up slightly
tend to lightly compress kick & bass individually, then route them to same channel and slightly compress them together
use eq to help define layers, pulling best frequencies outta sounds you've got running, making room in mix by removing other freqs