I find myself obsessively seeking punchiness while mastering more as time goes on, sometimes expanding dynamics to increase transient impact, un-compressing mixes to an extent. I think it's in response to mixers having access to so many efficient plugins such that everything gets compressed with little financial or CPU stress. The resulting mix can lack punch despite having high, constant volume. I'm not here to tell you how to mix, rant about 'loud' vs. 'dynamic' or diss co