I mostly play acoustic instruments now, but I discovered what you were talking about when I used to make electronic music. I'd naively use some heavy compressio

I mostly play acoustic instruments now, but I discovered what you were talking about when I used to make electronic music. I'd naively use some heavy compression for loudness, but as I added more parts things would get quite muddled. I'm no great audio engineer so maybe something else was the cause, but I'm pretty sure this was it.