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July 1, 2019

LOS ANGELES, CA

Looking for the top new lyric videos right now? Be sure to check out “Built Like This” by Rob Level. 

The Rob Level Built Like This Lyric Video features pseudo-industrial visuals and animations, with aliens, old water tanks, space stations, floating heads and more.

The video was created by Rob Level along with his creative director, Smith of the Century. 

This is a great example of songs with good lyric captions. Rob Level Built Like This is packed with zingers and amazing caption ideas for social media users hungry for good caption phrases... for example “you barely know yourself, how the f*ck you know me?” 

Rob Level is a Chicago native. Rob Level Built Like This uses only Chicago artists, engineers and producers as a tribute to his home city and where the journey started. 

Rob Level was a victim of physical abuse after being put up for adoption at 6 and was in and out of jail, group homes and behavior schools. After turning his life around, he founded Smart Rapper, the world’s leading educational platform for rappers and indie artists. He has not forgotten his humble beginnings and always tries to help other artists with the info he wished he’d had as a young struggling rapper.

Follow Rob Level at @rob_level on Instagram, and watch Built Like This by Rob Level (Lyric Video) Below.

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Are you “Built Like This?” 

Compression is another one of those elements that are very important to hip hop kicks, snares, and especially vocals. 

When a rapper is spittin’ a verse in double time (like Twista or the Migos) there will be parts in that verse that will be too loud or too low. Therefore, it’s always good to use compression to bring up those low parts and squeeze those peaks in the rapper’s voice. 

This works the same way with instruments. When I use 808s and slide them from one note to the next, this often creates a lower volume on the notes that slide so I use compression to bring them up with the rest of the bass. 

A Compressor - is an audio processing operation that reduces the volume of loud sounds or amplifies quiet sounds thus reducing or compressing an audio signals dynamic range. 

Types Of Compression 

Downward Compression - Limiter - reduces loud sounds over a certain threshold while quiet sounds remain unaffected

Upward Compression - Ex-pander - increases the dynamic range of the audio signal making quiet sounds louder. 

Controls

Threshold - how loud the signal has to be before compression is applied. Threshold timing behavior is subject to attack and release.

Ratio - The amount of gain reduction is determined by ratio: a ratio of 4:1 means that if input level is 4 dB over the threshold, the output signal level is reduced to 1 dB over the threshold. The gain and output level has been reduced by 3 dB.

Attack and Release - Attack - how quickly the compressor starts to work. Release - how soon after the signal dips below the threshold the compressor stops.

Soft and Hard Knees - “sets how the compressor reacts to signals once the threshold is passed. Hard Knee settings mean it clamps the signal straight away, and Soft Knee means the compression kicks in more gently as the signal goes further past the threshold.

    Stereo Linking - A compressor in stereo linking mode applies the same amount of gain reduction to both the left and right channels. This is done to prevent image shifting that can occur if each channel is compressed individually

Make-up gain - allows you to boost the compressed signal. as compression often attenuates the signal significantly.