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This is why you are looking for a compressor. Not because you are a pirate (we hope), but because physics won't let you email a 110 MB file to the clarinet section. In music production, a compressor reduces the dynamic range—making loud parts quiet and quiet parts loud. In Arabian Dances , Balmages uses extreme dynamics (from ppp to fff in the span of two bars). Arabian Dances Brian Balmages Pdf Compressor
Just don't compress the spirit of the piece. That opening oboe line still needs to float across the desert like a mirage—even on a low-res tablet. But here is the dirty secret no one
