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No, compression can be a great tool. The trick is to know when and how to use it. But talking solely about bus- and mixbusscompression in EDM, will it make any sense to use something like The Glue (SSL style buscompressor) on the mixbuss? I know many people using that one to "glue the mix together" whatever that means. I mean, if you can level out everything by adjusting the levels on the individual channels, why use a comp on the mixbuss if you want to "glue everything together"?

What do you mean by "shaping"? Do you mean like fx. giving the sounds more attack, by compressing everything else but the attack? And when saying compression in EDM is almost never about loudness, is it because the sounds already are static? Is it because its sample based, and therefore doesn't have variable peaks like in recorded music? Would you prevent using subcompression and mixbusscompression in EDM?