The playing is phenomenal. I was listening to it again today. I had turned the bass down from an earlier listening, turned the treble down. However, it is recorded louder than some of my other stuff I play on my phone. I think the recording on the cd is loud. Turning the volume down seemed to help somewhat, but things were....less audible....couldn't hear the backup instruments well.

Seems everything was POPPING to a degree. Drums were popping, accordion was popping. Not so much fiddle because it's more fluid. Maybe they had the noise gate turned up too, to filter out some of the ramp up and ramp down from notes.

I don't think it's my imagination. I didn't used to think this, but I didn't know the function and results of compression either, so I had nothing to relate it to. It was great to listen too, but it's begun to wear on me.

I also just bought a compressor/limiter/gate.

compressor
limiter
gate

3 good ways to mess up your sound
just saying
there are a lot of wrong ways to do them all

wle

I'm mostly interested in compression to experiment so I don't have to scream over the band to sing and hear myself, and the limiter to keep from bleeding from my ears while wearing in ear monitors, if any feedback starts. Not sure if I'll keep the in ear monitors, so, compression is an option.

ok
not sure it can really do either one
but it;s another time waster trying it out
oh sorry i forgot - -''education'' :)

i don;t think most acc players use either one live
if you get compression wrong it can
a. make feedback worse and
b. suck the life and dynamics out of the music
[[which is one of the attractions of accordion, dynamics]]

or you might get it right!


wle