To compress or not to compress

[SouthSIDE Glen]

i dont use a limiter tostop clipping i use it to normilize ...the limiter i have lets me normilize to and volume so my 2 main vocal track i limit to -6 .. no where close to clipping and already at the level i want it, this is what the limiter does for me.. but in the cents that your thinking im using yes bad idea very bad idea

It sounds like he's talking about RMS normalization. Though it's hard to translate from English as apparently written by a character from a Kurt Vonnegut novel.

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[tvolhein]

2-cents

I use vocal compression at a couple of stages and to do more than just limit. I do what Southside said, envelope the ridiculous stuff, perhaps one or two places. Then I compress to even out the gain. After that I am looking to bring the vocal forward. To my ears, those are three different things.

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[mixsit]

.. no where close to clipping and already at the level i want it, this is what the limiter does for me..

Take a look at this.

-To compress or not to compress-

Is there any other reason to compress vocals other than to control the transients? I recorded my vocals recently. When I finally got a comp good enough I individually reduced the gain of each wave that was too high. When finished I thought it sounded pretty level. I know this is time consuming and tedious, especially if I'm the singer, but is this wrong? Thanks in advance for any input.

Compression, compression vs automation, automation pre vs post compression, limiting..

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