Compression Unit for Recording Vocals

On Mon 2011-Oct-24 22:58, Scott Dorsey writes:
<snip>

Also people record with hardware compressors when they give them a
sound they like. Nothing wrong with that.

Absolutely, but you can do that at mixdown time now, and not have to
make so many decisions in tracking.

You can argue that this is bad and that it's better to have the
entire mix planned out during tracking, and I might agree with you
if you did.

I have always argued that though. My opinion has always
been that you should have a pretty darned good idea what
it's going to sound like before you decide to record it.
YEs I've done the throw up some ideas and see what happens
thing when creating a work for somebody, but then I was
playing with midi modules in my own space and wasn't billing the customer by the hour <g>. EIther that, or it was my own creation, but by the time we go to record it I've a darned
good idea what I want to hear coming out of the speakers
when it's all done. But then I believe I'm supposed to
capture a performance, not manufacture one <g>.
When called upon to do the manufacturing that's a different
ball game <g>.
<big snip>

I like dynamic range, I think we ought to have more of it,
personally. There's too much scrambling on too many mixes for my
taste, and of course now with DAWs and envelopes it's just worse.

OF course it is, a whole generation of folks has been taught to manufacture performances instead of capture them.

I'd posit over my first cup of coffee, but maybe not well
that the lack of an actual producer who understands the
music resulting in self production has necessitated this
mindset, which is why we have the tools we have today, they
are the tools the folks demanded to do the kind of work they do <g>. YOu and I, along with others of us "old farts" in
this group would argue that our way is better, but plenty of folks find they make recordings that please them using these tools in that way. IF I've got to redraw envelopes all the
time the way I like to work, it's time to retrack with the
performers actually paying attention to their dynamics <g>.

Regards,
Richard
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