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jiggsaw
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Is it better to compress vocals while recording or record dry, and eq/compress everything later?
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The Green Hornet
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Yo PuzzleMan:]
From reading this board, most posters like to add REVERB after the vocal is done.
Here is what I like to do to get the "up front" vocal:
I run my mic into a Grace 101 and from that into the RNC and make a few adjustments. Then, from the RNC, into the recorder. Works for me.
Of course you can compress "after" if that works for you.
Here is a little something you can try. If you or anyone out there have some good stuff on cassette done a while back, run your favorite cuts from tape into the RNC and then into your digital recorder. Lots of fun resurrecting some good old tape stuff and putting it to CD.
Happy Spring,
Green Hornet
From reading this board, most posters like to add REVERB after the vocal is done.
Here is what I like to do to get the "up front" vocal:
I run my mic into a Grace 101 and from that into the RNC and make a few adjustments. Then, from the RNC, into the recorder. Works for me.
Of course you can compress "after" if that works for you.
Here is a little something you can try. If you or anyone out there have some good stuff on cassette done a while back, run your favorite cuts from tape into the RNC and then into your digital recorder. Lots of fun resurrecting some good old tape stuff and putting it to CD.
Happy Spring,
Green Hornet
C
Chibi Nappa
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My general guidelines:
If I'm recording 24 bit, I just record with a limiter to prevent clipping. I still try and set it so that limiter never, ever activates. The limiter is only there for the rare occasion that a freak spike might ruin a great take.
If I was to record 16 bit (and I really don't anymore), I might record with a compressor only if the vocal part was really dynamic.
The bottom line is that I prefer to record dry. Keep in mind a huge reason for this is that I have pretty mediocre compressors.
If I'm recording 24 bit, I just record with a limiter to prevent clipping. I still try and set it so that limiter never, ever activates. The limiter is only there for the rare occasion that a freak spike might ruin a great take.
If I was to record 16 bit (and I really don't anymore), I might record with a compressor only if the vocal part was really dynamic.
The bottom line is that I prefer to record dry. Keep in mind a huge reason for this is that I have pretty mediocre compressors.
Bass Master "K"
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I compress the vox pretty mildly, but I do it on the way in. I have a RNC running as an insert in my Q-10 which has worked well for me.
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starch
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I usually insert a compressor into the signal path. I try to be very careful to only use what is necessary to mildly tame the dynamics. Once a signal is compressed, it is almost impossible to get those dynamics back, so be careful not to overdo it. If I can hear the compressor on the track before any additional processing, I have used too much.
My opinion.
My opinion.
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The Green Hornet
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Yo Starch:
You're right. Pumping, you don't want; THUMPING you do want, as long as it is no clip Thump.
Green Hornet
You're right. Pumping, you don't want; THUMPING you do want, as long as it is no clip Thump.
Green Hornet