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Originally Posted by Tommylicious  I see the suggestion of the 1176 (have been using a distressor now) and damn the slut in me would LOVE to get a Squeezebox and I bet the Trakker is awesome for VO too. The thing is I am not looking for something that hifi or a compressor perse; it has to be good quality but I am actually wondering about a box that can replace some Waves plugs for example. |
You'd love my place for VO then... lol! I went slutty a while back and never looked back.
To answer the question though. The symetrix is not uncommon in the broadcast community. I'm not impressed with it, but it seems to get more than it's fair share of work (particularly with the local TV affiliates). On a lesser end you've also got the DBX286, which is also used a lot.
That said, I think Geert's comment is the best one of the bunch. If this is being used so that the VO can hear the compressed track as he's doing it, I'd get something as close to the plug-ins as possible. Otherwise he's not really going to know, is he? That said, I think that for the $, if you are just looking to take the track from the mic, split it and have one of the split tracks used as monitor for the talent, while processing the other track via your normal methods, that the symetrix or even DBX would do you fine (on the low end of the spectrum).
Got to tell you, I've only done it this way in my own place. Never needed to do it otherwise (I trust the word of my producer and recording engineer).