again, we did the ping-pong delay example, but this is another example of something that would never be released by a corporation, in terms of sound quality. this mix is so ridiculously full of data over the entire frequency range that when i tried to reduce the size of the file by running it through a flac algorithm (which works like a zip compressor in that it runs through the file looking for zeroes and replaces them with a variable to save space. so if your wav file has a sequence of 100 zeroes, the flac algorithm replaces those 100 zeroes with the number 100. the decoder will then need to reconvert that 100 into 100 zeroes before it sends it to your sound card.) it decreased by less than 2%.

(edit: it's the middle part that had the impossible compression ratio, not the whole file. but, the vst version, as a whole, compressed less than 25%. that is, the size of the flac is about 79% of the size of the wav)

a corporate music producer would take a major scalpel to this in cutting out 30% of the sound, which would just be butchering the reverb and a lot of the detail in the middle of the mix. and, you consequently can't hear a lot of it via the mp3 stream i'm posting here - you just need to get a lossless version, that's all there is to it.

i'd challenge anybody to find me another piece of music that compresses less than this over flac: