Re: Do you use a hardware compressor/limiter for initial vocal tracks?



On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:30:12 -0500, david correia wrote:

The next full-time, experienced recording engineer I see track a vocal
without a compressor will be my first.

So what's the usual approach when doing this, given that you don't want
to overdo it?
A high threshold and compression ratio, to limit the occasional peak and
have no effect most of the time, or a low ratio over most of the dynamic
range so there are no sudden surprises?

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