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Originally Posted by jpanderson80
One thing that may have not been mentioned thus far, but it worth saying: when applying buss compression for glue, it is important to mix into the compressor from the beginning.
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I think it largely depends on the genre. I personally never mix into a compressor. I'm very careful about applying any effects to the master bus as, again, I consider that to be mainly the job of the mastering engineer. It's much better in my opinion to present the most dynamic well-balanced stems or stereo mixdown you can and let the mastering engineer do their job with the best "raw" material.
That said, if you are doing it all in-house you can throw all the rules out of the window and see it as a creative exercise. Just don't expect anyone to be pleased if later down the road you decide you want it professionally mastered and only have the stereo mixdown to hand. Removing glue is really difficult