Raise your hand if you have trouble hearing compression. If you had a headache, you’d know if this was working, right? A lot of you are applying dynamics, wondering if you’re going to make something sound better.
But if you’re applying a tool designed to solve a problem and you aren’t hearing the problem, how can you possibly know if it’s being solved? We have to start by talking about what a compressor actually does. Then we hunt for problems.
Specifically, problems that require the properties of the tool we’re looking to understand. Guaranteed, if you can identify the problem, you’re going to hear when the solution is working. We can teach you to do that better by showing you how to leverage a set of tools, but the real learnings come from doing.
And that’s why we’re there doing it with you, providing you attended lab hours and incubators so you can engage with the material in a meaningful way with us. That’s what it’s like to be in a Beat Kitchen class. And if somebody who belongs in one, share this post.
