Quote from: FreeGaia on January 10, 2016, 06:24:23 am

So is it that the reverb is making it too wet? And what does compressing too heavily do? I need a class in mastering... Haha

Yeah the reverb is just making everything super muddy because it makes every sound trail off into the next; lots of sounds overlapping. The quality of the reverb itself isn't too great either, it just feels like he slapped on a reverb sand just cranked up the wet mix.

Reverb is supposed to be a subtle sound that fades away. Compression evens out the dynamics of a sound (brings the louder parts closer in volume to the quieter parts). After compression the sound is quieter, so you bring up the volume of the whole signal. That's called make-up gain.

If you're compressing "hard" it means the volume at which compression kicks in is very low (the threshold) and your ratio, the factor by which the signal going passed the threshold gets reduced, is high. At this point the reverb, which again is supposed to be a subtle thing, is closer in volume to what were originally the louder elements in the song, and becomes way more audible and overwhelming once you bring the volume of the compressed signal back up.

That's the gist of it anyway, hopefully that makes sense. I'd Google what a compressor does to gain a better understanding 

SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH THANKS. I guess I did compress it too hard. I'm just beginning to understand mastering by my own so, big thanks!