bouldersoundguy
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Yea. Thinking about it I'm finding that distorted guitars generally sound pretty equal, I guess that this is because you generally play quite hard and steady due with distortion because you want to deliver impact?
Distortion is dirty clipping. It chops off the high parts of the wave and fills in with harmonics. The natural result is a less dynamic signal.
I've often got clean intros and stuff that have more dynamics and they need a little bit of compression definitely.
Compression or level automation can work, depending on various things.
Although I guess sometimes people would want to add compression to add the effect that it can give too maybe?
People use it as an effect all the time. The line between controlling levels and compressing for effect is rather blurry. Change it from the way it is to the way you want it to be.