New producers, audio engineers, and beat makers often struggle to understand and hear compression. Let's approach this from three angles: dynamic range, normalization, and our old friend, the logarithm. Compression lives at the intersection of these three things and if you familiarize yourself with these concepts, you may have an easier time wrapping your head around this all important yet elusive audio effect. Of course you can learn to do all of this on your own. Except for the together part.