What is Dynamic Range in Music?

What is dynamic range in music? This video will explain everything you need to know about dynamic range. If you’re a music producer, or just enjoy listening to music, you should know how dynamic range works. Dynamic range in music is vital in order for music to sound crisp and punchy. When music is too compressed, the dynamic range is restricted, and that will cause the music to be quite tiresome to listen to. If you’re a music producer you need to know what dynamic range is, so that you can use it effectively. So, what is dynamic range? Dynamic range is basically the difference between the loudest and quietest elements in a song. This is important because our hearing works by this principle. It constantly separates loud and quiet elements, trying to do judge distances and such. If a track is too compressed, there’s very little difference between loud and quiet elements, in other words, the dynamic range is restricted. Compressed music will tend to sound louder, and louder typically always sounds better to h
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