Quote Originally Posted by danielmarshall
You're so right. Boosting bass before you compress leads to a paddocks' worth of mud.

Something I've realised lately is that side chaining the bass with a longish decay on the kick is often a good way to reduce the ammount of overall compression you'll have to apply to your mix to get it to sound full and loud.

So much of this stuff is common sence, but all too often I forget to apply these basic principles...
interestin bit of advice about side-chaining, been really getting into it recently, great with the software but only 1of my hardware compressors has a side chain input which is really annoying