LOL - okay, good, but have you noticed how the recommended settings for vocals on dbx page differ from the ones I've been using? The dbx people suggest a higher ratio (6:1) and a higher threshold (maybe +10, so that there's about 6 dB of gain reduction). This way the quiet stuff gets through uncompressed, which makes some sense (why compress the quiet stuff?). I'm going to try the dbx recommendation and see what the difference is.