elmacaco wrote:The drums were originally compressed when they were recorded, by recording them again, you can get a different compression and may lose or gain some snap. Recompressing is fine, I'm tired of this drums already compressed nonsense. Overdrive your mpc input and see how compressed they are and how different from the recording, also any ambient noise from the TT could change the compressed recording.
I can't really agree with you, except the part where I already said there are no rules. If you find something that sounds good, then it sounds good. Great. Usually though heavily recompressing compressed sounds doesn't sound good to me. (Nor did it sound good to Dr Dre when he recorded it in ther first place. Otherwise he would have done it!)
I'm sure you're aware that compression changes the relative loudness of the attack and release etc relative to the loudest elements of the sample. And that any turntable noise picked up, the crackle, is going to be so quiet in comparison to the sample, that none of those characteristics (the ones affected by compression) are really changed. You're adding extra 'noise' to the sound ('warmth'). Maybe you changed the bitrate when you recorded. I don't know. But the effects of compression on the original sound are still there.
But whatever. None of this means anything if you are getting a better sound recompressing. So go to it, and try not to get too exasperated if people are going to have a different opinion.
