For anyone who's into making drum and bass, or indeed any form of electronic music, and is a bit mystified by the whole EQ/Compression/Mastering ting, the man hipnotic of dnbscene.com has written a comprehensive, easy-to-understand, illustrated tutorial all about it. Unmissable reading. Helped me understand something I've never managed to get my head round... http://www.dnbscene.com/articles.php?mode=display&id=79
Did This Guy Hipnotic ever finish the tutorial? because I can't find it anywhere... Even though it is old, it's the best, most basic tutorial I've read so far (and I plow through a lot of books - yamaha, katz, etc.)
The compression section isn't finished but the introduction is excellent and an eye-opener - basically making an instrument sound clear and good is about positioning it within the limited range of frequency that you have to play with, not cranking its volume.
http://dnbscene.com/article/1474-compress-to-impress-a-complete-compression-tutorial http://www.dnbscene.com/article/88-thinking-inside-the-box-a-complete-eq-tutorial
