Best gate...

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Hey everybody. I just had a girl come into my studio today with a pre recorded track and I put her vocals onto it. The only problem with it is sometimes her voice is loud, sometimes quiet. For the most part I usually don't have this problem, but for some reason I'm having such a hard time with this recording...
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for the future, to make this easiets on me, with no hasstle later, what is the best gate/ compressor etc that I could sue to eliminate the problem?

I as of now have an AT2020 mic connected to my Studio Projects TubePRE to my mixer running through cubase. Typically I'll use Ozone 3 and a vintage effect along with a nice reverb (all done in my vocal booth)

Is there a suggested compressor to get that will fix that horrible volume problem?

thanks
 
Just to be clear you don't need a gate, you need a compressor. Not sure why you're referring to both.

Have you tried the dynamics plug in Cubase?

Of course the best solution would be to teach her some mic technique.
 
waves C4 might help ya out, if you can accurately identify the trouble frequencies, just let it mash em out....
 
I see no reason to use a multi band compressor over a regular compressor.

Unless there's a problem with dynamics over a specific and fairly narrow range of frequencies (highly unlikely).
 
Kevin Deschwazi said:
Just to be clear you don't need a gate, you need a compressor. Not sure why you're referring to both.

Have you tried the dynamics plug in Cubase?

Of course the best solution would be to teach her some mic technique.
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I wasn't sure which honestly would be the correct thing with vocals, because everytime I put a compressor it seems to erase a good portion of her breathing and I can never work it correctly to get a good sound, but I'm going to work on it, thanks
 
buryher17 said:
I wasn't sure which honestly would be the correct thing with vocals, because everytime I put a compressor it seems to erase a good portion of her breathing and I can never work it correctly to get a good sound, but I'm going to work on it, thanks
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Yeah, learning to use a compressor takes a bit of time. Stick with it.
 
Kevin Deschwazi said:
Yeah, learning to use a compressor takes a bit of time. Stick with it.
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thanks buddy. That definately is one of my flaws I will admit. I've only been recording seriously for about 2 1/2 years now in my hectic life so I know I still have a lot to learn.
 
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