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    The idea of compression of the layers is so that the dynamic range of each layer matches each other consistent through out. If each layer of the sound you are constructing has vastly varying dynamics, it is more obvious to the ear that it is a different sound.

    Some people hear even badly layered sounds as 1, it all depends on how well you can distinguish the different frequencies that are making up the sound.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mitchiemasha View Post
    The idea of compression of the layers is so that the dynamic range of each layer matches each other consistent through out. If each layer of the sound you are constructing has vastly varying dynamics, it is more obvious to the ear that it is a different sound.

    Some people hear even badly layered sounds as 1, it all depends on how well you can distinguish the different frequencies that are making up the sound.
    I'd presume that in live music the drumkit is squeezed through a compression bus (after gates in the mics that might pick up sound bleed) to make it sound more consistent which is basically layering..

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    In electronic music every sound/preset etc is pretty much layers, even if it's just 1 sound. Another thing to think about...

    "A square wave is a non-sinusoidal periodic waveform (which can be represented as an infinite summation of sinusoidal waves), in which the amplitude alternates at a steady frequency between fixed minimum and maximum values, with the same duration at minimum and maximum."

    Basically it's a load of sine waves that are layered mathematically perfect in frequency and dynamics that the summation is a square.

    A triangle wave is the same but it only has the odd harmonics in the layers above the fundamental. So imagine each peak on a spectrum analyzer to be a sine wave of it's own, each individual layers making up the sounds.

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    which is to say that if you layer ruhlly good it will sound like one thing. Literally everything can be expressed in sine waves in all the universe. How much do we want to simplify bricks and stack?
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