Hope I have understood you correctly on the 'fader' business and hope we can move along to getting me an answer for my question. Time is money for me because to do that process is a waste of time over 10 songs, because a decent enough compressor would have given me a less frustrating product to work with, and saves me time later too. It takes time just adjusting levels of each word, especially with a half bad singer occassionally. the Compressor is to kill very minimal highs but not to lose tone. So when you say 'fader' it means nothing to me in tracking as I dont intend on moving my mouse up and down when tracking.ĭuring mixing, its a different game obviously.
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My reason for that is firstly, I track(this is for tracking) so when I track through my pre, i have no manual faders in front of me (no SSL nor some vintage board) so its digital and thats it. I am not an engineer per se, but sure know to produce a song. I am not here for philosophy related conversation.
Vocal mics that will work on anyone in any genre and sound good. If it were me i would put my money to getting the 3-4 best collection of vocal mics i could afford. Makes it much easier to pick the right chain for mixing the vocal through. I have noticed lately in terms of the best vocals i've gotten to mix are vocals people did at home but with no compression/limiting. I do compress when mixing down but that's a whole other subject onto itself. When recording pop/r&B and rap i do compress but never have to that hard. If I had a neat compressor, my hardware chain would be sorted for now.Well i can tell you over the years(its been now 23 years) i've recorded the most dynamic of singers(the would be musical theater, gospel and classical) and i usually don't use any compression and just ride the output of the mic pre to tape. My issue is the peaks being too high for pop singers and not compressed when going through a chain like a Neve 1073+API5500EQ. However, I gathered if I got the main hardware chain right, then with the Mics, I can either hire the most highest end of the lot for any special vocal performances, while I have a 'do it all' type U87 for day to day stuff. I currently have a C12VR but am considering a U87 or CM7 FET even. Yeah that was the other option (to either spend more $ on the mic or the comp) and my thought was to get the Hardware chain right first. Thanks so much all and sorry for the multiple amounts of posts/threads and being anal about it.
I hope you can assist in narrowing down my selection from 11 to 1 or 2, so I can do a shoot out with those two. Using the Compressor on my ISA430 and not getting another comp.įYI, my pre is a 1073DPA Neve and an API5500EQ.
The options I have on the table currently are as follows:ġ0. One catch is that I am not interested in second hand items. Without going over the other components of the chain, I am looking for the best option forward, so I can purchase a brand new one soon. The type of vocal ranges anywhere from Pink, Avril (Rock/Pop) through to Pop to some RnB Alicia Keys, Mariah. I am looking for the best available vocal compressor for vocal tracking. I am placing several threads for various answers but I noticed this is a critical question and may help me narrow down my options.