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Originally Posted by JamesPeters
While on the subject of Thriller, if we want to assume there's no compressors used at all (I'm ok with that)...
What about the musicians that performed on the album, their level of ability, how consistently they could play an instrument and/or sing into a mic. Plus how their instruments sounded, how they were chosen for their sound and dialed in. Plus what mics and preamps were chosen (which probably ended up compressing the sound a bit).
And then, recorded to tape...and probably compressed in the process.
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I've always worked with guys who know how to work a mic and will go off axis when they have to belt it out to hit the note, so recording with them was always easy peasy.
But, when I ran my own commercial recording studio and had local bands coming in to record their album I had to work with folks who would eat the mic at their loudest passages, or back away from it when not belting it out.
A finely honed seasoned group of musicians and vocalists can record live one take sessions and sound great with zero post processing. And if any post processing is used, it's easy to dial in the sound you are going for because it's already in the pocket.