I get a lot of demos where the tracks have obviously all been run through a "maximize waveform to look like a solid lego block" plug-in. There's only so much an engineer could even do with some of the stuff in that state...just throw their hands up in the air and wave them like they just don't care.

I've gone back to artists before and asked them for "unmastered" versions of their tracks. Some had back ups and some didn't and in some cases, I didn't put out the track because of that reason.

Dynamics is the sexy siren.