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Post by drumsound on May 31, 2020 3:24:35 GMT -6
Most of my mix compression is from the McDSP 6030. It loads up 8 different compressors that you can flip through. Some are models (with variation, the 1176 has a variable ratio, not the buttons) and some are McDSP designs. They are all useful in different settings.
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Post by tkaitkai on May 31, 2020 12:36:37 GMT -6
Most of my compression happens OTB, but my go-to plugins for vocals are the following:
UAD LA3A Arturia Comp FET-76 RVox CLA-76
I'm also a huge fan of multing the vocal out to five different compressors, ala Michael Brauer. I'm usually too lazy to do this, but every time I do, the results are incredibly natural. Now that I say this, I should probably just make a template.
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Post by the other mark williams on Jun 9, 2020 6:28:52 GMT -6
[...] it’s usually the PA Purple MC77 [...] Dang, I missed the $50 deal on this yesterday. Oh well, I’m sure as hell not paying $250 for it. It’ll go on sale at July 4. Or Labor Day. Or Halloween. Or Christmas. Or...
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Post by indiehouse on Jun 9, 2020 9:32:45 GMT -6
[...] it’s usually the PA Purple MC77 [...] Dang, I missed the $50 deal on this yesterday. Oh well, I’m sure as hell not paying $250 for it. It’ll go on sale at July 4. Or Labor Day. Or Halloween. Or Christmas. Or... You can usually find people offloading PA plugs for cheaper than sale prices.
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Post by Johnkenn on Jun 10, 2020 13:27:55 GMT -6
Dang, I missed the $50 deal on this yesterday. Oh well, I’m sure as hell not paying $250 for it. It’ll go on sale at July 4. Or Labor Day. Or Halloween. Or Christmas. Or... You can usually find people offloading PA plugs for cheaper than sale prices. On GS?
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Post by mrholmes on Jun 10, 2020 14:55:02 GMT -6
[...] it’s usually the PA Purple MC77 [...] Dang, I missed the $50 deal on this yesterday. Oh well, I’m sure as hell not paying $250 for it. It’ll go on sale at July 4. Or Labor Day. Or Halloween. Or Christmas. Or...
mine was 25 bucks on a sale its good to wait
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Post by indiehouse on Jun 10, 2020 21:11:40 GMT -6
You can usually find people offloading PA plugs for cheaper than sale prices. On GS? There’s a PA Facebook group, and a couple of other “plugins for sale” groups. KVR classifieds is also good. GS classifieds has been kinda “meh” for me, lately.
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Post by mitchkricun on Jun 11, 2020 9:42:25 GMT -6
Unisum hands down for me.
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Post by iamasound on Jun 12, 2020 7:49:18 GMT -6
On the way in is the Warm WA76 to knock off between 4 to 8 or so dB, and on the inside the Overloud GEM670 Compressor Limiter. That will usually do it for me, but when I need a little something shaved off of a certain frequency I'll slap on a dynamic EQ, one Nova by Tokyo Dawn, which is free and would be a bargain at 10X the price.
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Post by popmann on Jun 12, 2020 15:19:06 GMT -6
Since I've been doing the vocals here of JSUT ME....I've kind come to just use the CLA Bluey--because the Aphex already does a majority of the heavy lifting, and Bluey does the low mid thing. If anyone remembers me giving the recipe for emulating my vintage 3a (now gone) in software, it was to set Bluey to do no reduction but analog on...into the CLA3a with it's analog OFF to get the reduction (or sometimes it sounded better to reverse order--but that was the point--the IO amp model of Bluey with the compression of the La3a. And I cherry picked that unit from about 5 of them to stay because it just had this "something" in it's saturation for vocals. Bluey is the closest to that I've found in a plug in. I mostly hate blackface 76s. Like....a lot. Real and virtual. On vocals at least.
I was actually considering trying that Bluey BlackLion thing for tracking--since I get more British the older I get...
But, panned back...over the years, I can tell you that the Farichild 660 and CLA Bluey have been all the limiting on any lead vocal I mixed....and in terms of leveling, it's nearly always what came with the DAW. Logic's "Red 3 looking" compressor is what I mixed a whole record with when I was tasked with doing it with ONLY built ins...Cubase's standard lookahead (not in "live" mode) does good job...the Harrison Lookahead AND their channel dynamics also do really good job without even bothering with any settings.
But, Greg Well wins for "I'm a musician and don't know how to set a full control compressor properly"...that Voice Centric might scoop the middle a bit much for me--but it does well and QUICK like...insert, turn off reverb and delay garbage...quick matching of output level (which I understand most won't bother with)...personally, I think that stuff is the future. When someone tells me they always use all thiese vibey vintage units...and the deEssers required for using most of them...I just think "embrace tech man--if you don't want to learn to set a dynamics processor** buy one you don't have to know how to set"
**and that's not intended as judgement. Why WOULD you want to learn that? Engineering? Means to an end for a musician.
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Post by nnajar on Jun 13, 2020 19:41:30 GMT -6
magic death eye.
I have a hardware unit and track vocal with it, so often mixing vocals doesn't require additional compression. But I do get mix jobs that I didn't track, or were tracked off site without compression, and the MDE plugin is fantastic.
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Post by subspace on Jun 14, 2020 11:09:11 GMT -6
Since I've been doing the vocals here of JSUT ME....I've kind come to just use the CLA Bluey--because the Aphex already does a majority of the heavy lifting, and Bluey does the low mid thing. If anyone remembers me giving the recipe for emulating my vintage 3a (now gone) in software, it was to set Bluey to do no reduction but analog on...into the CLA3a with it's analog OFF to get the reduction (or sometimes it sounded better to reverse order--but that was the point--the IO amp model of Bluey with the compression of the La3a. And I cherry picked that unit from about 5 of them to stay because it just had this "something" in it's saturation for vocals. Bluey is the closest to that I've found in a plug in. I mostly hate blackface 76s. Like....a lot. Real and virtual. On vocals at least. I was actually considering trying that Bluey BlackLion thing for tracking--since I get more British the older I get... But, panned back...over the years, I can tell you that the Farichild 660 and CLA Bluey have been all the limiting on any lead vocal I mixed....and in terms of leveling, it's nearly always what came with the DAW. Logic's "Red 3 looking" compressor is what I mixed a whole record with when I was tasked with doing it with ONLY built ins...Cubase's standard lookahead (not in "live" mode) does good job...the Harrison Lookahead AND their channel dynamics also do really good job without even bothering with any settings. I use CLA's MixHub as my default mix strip, it can flip the channel compression between the stock SSL and his Bluey emulation. It can also host another Waves plug within the strip and guess what my vocal default has been? Bluey followed by CLA-3A...
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