hello all, here joseph - i produce for 13 years and also run Home of Sound (a interview and masterclasses platform for producers). i personally struggled a lot understanding what really gainstaging means and how to apply it in my music. the big issue - i thought i knew it.. turned out i was overcompressing and overprocessing almost every element, especially vocals. i do everything in the box in ableton and thus even harder to notice.

i got lucky some months ago, an audio engineer and producer showed me gainstaging again.. and holy s... it changed my approach completely.

do you have good links or resources that are simple and concrete for gainstaging? would love to go deeper

anyone else struggling with it? i want to ask a few good producers and audio engineers to do a masterclass just on this. happy to collect questions and ideas and put together a list for them

hugs

joseph