Weaver

My biggest complaint is really the massive over compression that’s happening across the board (though this is happening in other genres outside of electronic music as well).

Listening to tracks from even the mid 90’s they have a much higher dynamic range in them.

I mean, this is a question you have to answer for yourself lol. I’m not really sure why you feel guilty.

Maybe you feel like because you didn’t put in the work to dig for that rare track you somehow don’t “deserve” it or something?

The closest you’re going to get at that price range is the Behringer DDM4000. I’ve never used one, It’s Behringer quality (not that great) but the reviews for it were actually pretty positive.

I will say, it has a very stupid position for the headphone jack I think I’ve ever seen though.

That would just take one drunk person and… Sploosh!

lol that could be, Rob! I pretty much only do hardcore parties so I’m expecting to be pumped up the whole night. 9 hours of pure energy in some sketchy club is how I’ve partied for a good 10 years lol. I want to dance and I want to dance hard. I’m sure things are a lot difference in the trance scene, for instance.

While I’m no audio engineer, I think you’re basically on the right track 😛

My understanding is, basically, you want everyone to be able to hear the whole song. If you think of a reasonably sized stage, if you run it in stereo everyone not at the center of the venue is going to only be hearing one “side” (R/L) of the song. If, say, you have some panned hats in the track the people on the right side of the stage would be hearing different things from people on the left side of the stage.

What you really want them to be hearing is everything! To do that, smoosh everything into a mono space to solve the problem.

I’m sure there’s lots of other reasons for it as well, but this is my limited comprehension of the situation.