I am in agreement as well.

Part of my reasoning is that I rarely, if ever, boost too much with EQ. If I can't get it mostly right at the source, I have more work to do at the source. Now, room modes or resonances that sound wonky, I'll cut those, but I don't boost too much.

As it pertains to compression squashing boosted content - rharv is exactly right. Unless it's a multi-band, compressors really only reacts to level - of which low frequencies will dominate level. You'd have to really honk a particular band.

But to each his own. It's best to experiment with the order and see for yourself what works where. Guidelines are only that. Sometimes it pays to go off the trail!

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