Love this new on @spencerhoad producing another awesome @criddleclayton track ! #tutorialtuesday What I was trying to say but couldnāt (because I was actually running the mastering ) is that the verse was much lower and he was making it more exaggerated so the dynamic range would be greater ... if I were to smash it together then his verse and chorus would be noticeable ... now , this isnāt necessary for the engineer to do , but if your verse is ātoo lowā for where the chorus or drop is , I will manually ride it up a little until the chorus and back it off (if thereās a very large level or volume change) because it should not feel like the vocal drops off on the verse too far in pop music ... if you want it to , it can but this way I can ride the converters ānatural compressionā and not have to use any more equipment ... the result is a magic sort of sound , it just is . When I take this configuration and use plug ins , it just kills the feel and the human feeling in a track ; I donāt know any other way to describe it but when itās all analog and Iām in the car even on blue tooth audio messing everything up , itās just no comparison to having something messed with plug-ins and also even if you use external gear you have to worry about how many conversions and degradation there ... but thatās another story ... #mastering #masteringminute #pgx #bgmastering #masteringstudio #hollywood #cali #music #producer #mixing #makingmusic #tutorialmusic (at Bernie Grundman Mastering Studios)