Compressing Vocals With Slope In Audition?

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I'm new on the forum, so hi everybody :thumbs up: Anyways, there was a quote from Rza about Ghostface where he said:
" He’s more high-pitched when other producers work with him. His voice should be compressed on 90 mhz and sloped down. I know that; other producers and engineers don’t know that. "

I've been curious ever since, what panel that would be under if I were trying to do that? (I know Rza didn't use audition, he had hardware for this but I am curious if it's possible).

Any info will be appreciated!
 
That statement makes no sense. 90MHz is radio frequency, not audio. You don't "compress on 90Mhz" (or whatever frequency) or "slope down" from that frequency, unless he's giving a very confused description of multiband compression. Given he's talking about recording on ADATs it's unlikely he had hardware multiband compression.
 
bouldersoundguy said:
That statement makes no sense. 90MHz is radio frequency, not audio. You don't "compress on 90Mhz" (or whatever frequency) or "slope down" from that frequency, unless he's giving a very confused description of multiband compression. Given he's talking about recording on ADATs it's unlikely he had hardware multiband compression.
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I gotta assume he taught himself how to mix/master vocals, so his lingo is probably way off to someone who learned a more traditional way. I'll look into multiband compressor.
 
I'll go a bit farther and say that it's not a matter of being self taught and not knowing the proper words. The guy is talking complete gibberish probably just to take the mickey out of the interviewer.

In any case, bouldersoundguy is right--multiband compression is the closest thing to what he's talking about and Audition has had that feature for the past several versions (though you won't find it if you go back to a really early one.

However, if you want to play with the technique, don't take any particular number as gospel. Even if he meant 90Hz rather than MHz, you need to use your ears to decide what processing to use. You'd have to have an incredibly low voice for 90Hz compression to make much audible difference!
 
I'll mess around with that, I don't really get what slope means relative to the multiband compressor yet.
 
That's because it's not an actual term! Slope is more normally used to describe filters/EQ.

However, I'd guess he's trying to say reduce the amount of compression as the frequency increases.

Word of caution: use multiband compression with care. It's easy to make your tracks sound worse, not better.
 
Bobbsy said:
However, I'd guess he's trying to say reduce the amount of compression as the frequency increases.
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I'd guess he's talking nonsense. As you say, it could be intentional or not. Either way there is no useful information in his statement. I wouldn't take any of it as guidance. He might as well have said he set the blorg to full splurm with a moderate glirp.
 
he he blurg slurp glurp at a 4 to one radio. Sorry folks, just had to have a bit of fun.
 
bouldersoundguy said:
I'd guess he's talking nonsense. As you say, it could be intentional or not. Either way there is no useful information in his statement. I wouldn't take any of it as guidance. He might as well have said he set the blorg to full splurm with a moderate glirp.
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I never set the blorg to full splurn. I find that going above about 3/4 blorg can cause severe rezeltrep polebny on my tracks.
 
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