Fluffy
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I don't see a point using the term "Crushed down sound", this is something your side of the debate invented. What I like is full and rich recordings that are properly balanced. I see overly dynamic recordings as thin sounding and piercing, each drum hit sticking out of the mix like a stabbing knife to my ear. There is no real point in listening to an accurate representation of real drums – as I said, this would soon make you deaf. The best thing is to tame them to a level where they sound like another instrument in the band. There is compression applied to every instrument, and each one receives a custom treatment according to their character. It so happens that drums are producing excessive sound levels at the attack portion of their sound envelopes, so that needs to be addressed.However, as I interpret your postings, you prefer a totally crushed down sound. Please don't take this as a critizism of your personal preference - you can prefer whatever you prefer. But also please don't tell me that this crushed sound is an accurate representation of a real drum - it's far from that. There are quite a handful of very good mastered recordings where the drums sound much more real than in the crushed down example in posting #20.
In the misleading example in post 20#, the drums are initially way too loud in the mix, and instead of first bringing them down in level and then applying compression, they drastically compress them to prove a point. No one would realistically use compression like that, so it's a false example.