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"Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin

Strong Songs

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What's the Case for Not Over Compressing Things?

This is one of those that makes the case for not over compressing things. If this album had been released today, or really, if it had ben released like the 19 nineties, the whole album would be much more jacked up and compressed. It's wild how super quiet it starts out and how big and full throated it gets by the end. I hear a lot of that in jeff buckley's singing,. Like, listen to this clip from jeff Buckley's grace. Now listen to plant again on stairway  and m you can draw a direct line between the one vocal performance and the other one many years later.

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