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

In article <bMidnUmB7-S_q5jWnZ2dnUVZ8iqdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
anahata <anahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:02:54 -0500, david correia wrote:

The name of the game is to make your vocal sit *in* the mix yet pop out
of the speakers.
[etc...]

I'm sure that's great advice on compresson at mixdown time, but we were
talking about compressing during tracking, and I was asking about the
safest way to achieve (as Geoff so eloquently put it:) "something so
subtle that if it didn't come out quite as expected on the take that
turned out otherwise to be THE take, you won't have stuffed it up too
much."

I'm assuming that during tracking you want (if you use compression at
all) to reduce dynamic range as transparently as possible.

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No. I am talking about when I record the vocal. I wanna hear it sound
right. I'll bang the living shit out of it if I have to.

You listen and work til you get it. (Which can include moving the mic
and/or the singer. And I am assuming that you've already chosen the most
appropriate mic & mic pre you own for the singer.)

It's easy to do when you know what right sounds like. And if you've got
great tools. It's a guessing game and a roll of the dice if you don't.

Remember, I am talking about what pro's do. Like learning to play an
instrument, it takes a while to get there.





David Correia
www.Celebrationsound.com
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