Glue

• Published: 2022-03-09 08:22
• Updated: 2024-08-05 17:33

Glue is a sound quality that helps perceiving individual elements as a unified whole. It’s most commonly achieved with saturation and/or saturating dynamics processors like compressors. With the goal of adding harmonic intermodulation distortion. That’s moving ‘in tune’ with the signals’ sum. To subtly amplify the musical qualities of the material at hand.

It’s the sonic equivalent of the Dude’s rug.