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Compression and the Mandela effect

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Any chance you can compress that?
 
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What I have discovered is shocking, and I am compelled to share it with TB.

There is a reason why millions of bass players "never use compression". These players, who have been making music for 20/30/40/50 years without ever needing compression, are in reality, suffering a partial memory from their alternate timeline.

Their history had no convention, no common practice of dynamic compression applied to audio. In their timeline, dynamic compression technology existed, but was only used in sonar and radar applications, and later in the broadcasting of certain High frequency bands. They never used compression because IT DIDN'T EXIST FOR THEM.

Sometime in early 2012, two timelines, practically identical, but with notable differences, MERGED. Those of us who remember using compression before 2012 experienced a different iteration of the Multiverse, than those who "never used compression". Our timelines have merged, leaving in it's wake, dissent, confusion, and a stubbornness of conviction. We each remember a different "reality".

I know it's a lot to take in, but it's real. The Mandela Effect is real.
It is well known that the Mandela Effect is greatly influenced by the convergence of the multiverse and the alternate reality of sequential compression. It can be proven mathematically by taking the square root of time (ie, the number of months from the purchase of your first bass to the purchase of your first compressor) divided by the inverse of the dBs of the audio dynamics. This simple calculation will produce the predictive velocity of substantial reverberation leading to the spatial behavior of the timelines referenced by the OP.

I trust this will provide some clarity.
 
What I have discovered is shocking, and I am compelled to share it with TB.

There is a reason why millions of bass players "never use compression". These players, who have been making music for 20/30/40/50 years without ever needing compression, are in reality, suffering a partial memory from their alternate timeline.

Their history had no convention, no common practice of dynamic compression applied to audio. In their timeline, dynamic compression technology existed, but was only used in sonar and radar applications, and later in the broadcasting of certain High frequency bands. They never used compression because IT DIDN'T EXIST FOR THEM.

Sometime in early 2012, two timelines, practically identical, but with notable differences, MERGED. Those of us who remember using compression before 2012 experienced a different iteration of the Multiverse, than those who "never used compression". Our timelines have merged, leaving in it's wake, dissent, confusion, and a stubbornness of conviction. We each remember a different "reality".

I know it's a lot to take in, but it's real. The Mandela Effect is real.

Aaa haaa. What????
 
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Well that certainly explains things...
 
What I have discovered is shocking, and I am compelled to share it with TB.

There is a reason why millions of bass players "never use compression". These players, who have been making music for 20/30/40/50 years without ever needing compression, are in reality, suffering a partial memory from their alternate timeline.

Their history had no convention, no common practice of dynamic compression applied to audio. In their timeline, dynamic compression technology existed, but was only used in sonar and radar applications, and later in the broadcasting of certain High frequency bands. They never used compression because IT DIDN'T EXIST FOR THEM.

Sometime in early 2012, two timelines, practically identical, but with notable differences, MERGED. Those of us who remember using compression before 2012 experienced a different iteration of the Multiverse, than those who "never used compression". Our timelines have merged, leaving in it's wake, dissent, confusion, and a stubbornness of conviction. We each remember a different "reality".

I know it's a lot to take in, but it's real. The Mandela Effect is real.

The first time I noticed compression on a bass were two songs, the first was the Little River Band’s “Reminiscing’. The second was “One Thing Leads to Another”. Back in the late 80’s I borrowed a Peavey Mark IV that had compression, and had an “Aaa Haa” moment. Today with my Eden Gear, I use it all the time.
 
I don't think Mandela ever used compression or effects pedals...do your research ;)
He didn't need to...his dynamics were to the point that the only thing more satisfying than employing those incredible dynamics was making snide comments on internet forums towards those poor folks with normal dynamics (and this crazy notion that compressors and other effects do things other than attempt to mask ignoble dynamics)