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"It's loud, in-your-face, and has more punch than a kangaroo at boxing practice": What is OTT compression - and how do you use it?

This influential Ableton Live preset made its way into thousands of tracks, spawned a copycat plugin, and inspired a new - and unapologetically excessive - style of compression. But why does it sound ...
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"It's loud, in-your-face, and has more punch than a kangaroo at boxing practice": What is OTT compression - and how do you use it?

Thankfully, Ableton managed to course correct, but - somewhat ironically - an innocuous preset for Multiband Dynamics, one of Live 8's new devices, would end up becoming vastly influential, spawning ...