Using 2 Compressors in the VOX chain

[Kenny Gioia]

I actually tried it at 200ms and I liked it even better.

No more pumping breaths

[Mar_sell]

I did that too before.

I used the first compressor to chop the attacks of the vocal cos there was a big problem there.
I then used the second compressor to do a normal vocal compressing job.

[Alécio Costa]

With so much compressing around in the input, what about the final product with mastering?

[Kenny Gioia]

Originally posted by ALÉCIO COSTA - BRAZIL:
With so much compressing around in the input, what about the final product with mastering?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">The more compression you use on each individual track during a mix, the less the mix will get screwed up by stereo or Mastering compression.

Compression, if used right, is your friend.

[ixnys]

If one just wants to use compression maybe on all tracks just to smooth out and control dynamics a bit what would be a typical ratio, and how much gain reduction would you aim for?

[picksail]

For smoothing I usually set a Ren comp at about 1.15:1 and now more than 3db of reduction medium attack/release ( dictated by each idividual song, of course ).

[jho]

Originally posted by PDupre:
georgia, That is the coolest tip I've read in a long time! Got to try it.

Peter

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">That's basically a similar tip for gating drums etc....dup the track, shift forward, mute, do a pre send to the real drum and set the gate to key off the muted track...