Almost every producer, engineer and musician struggles in being able to hear compression at first—sometimes for many years.

Justin Colletti offers a fool-proof strategy for really learning to hear these sometimes subtle differences. It involves limiting variables, and doing a little bit of focused listening.

If you do the exercises in this podcast, you'll quickly be able to hear compression in all of its main flavors. You just have to focus on the right things.

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