I used to hate this answer. But now I know it's true. I've recently started engineering voice over work for a local company. We do everything in English and Spanish. The English guy is well known--he's been the voice of national retail chains, Anhueser-Busch for a while (I'm in St. Louis), and various other folks. So I knew his recorded history before I started working with him. I also knew that we was once a recording engineer himself. So I was looking forward to hearing what he did to get that killer sound out of his voice.
Then, right before we started working together, he called me. On my cell phone. I was blown away--it sounded like one of those commercials just chatting with him. Then we got into
the studio, and the retiring engineer went over the signal chain with me: No compression, no EQ, no anything!
It's a killer voice with good mic technique. (And yeah, it's a decent mic--though I'm sure he'd sound like this through a 58).
It was eye-opening (or should I say ear-opening) to say the least.