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Originally Posted by Trell Blaze  That's not always true...especially when it comes to this particular vocal style. Often times a squashed vocal (with GREAT care paid to the ratio, attack, and release settings) is just what the doctor ordered.
If you do it right (and choose the right compressor for the job), it won't sound nearly as compressed as it actually is... |
Ok...I can agree with that. But really what I was getting at was the size of the vocal in the sound field. Yes, the proper compression can put the vocal in your face like a face pressed up against a window...but at the same time, it will be in a smaller window, so to speak. It's like, you can go for the bigger window frame and fill it up 65%...or you can go for the smaller window frame and have it fill up 90% of that space. But of course, in this analogy, the bigger the frame, the less room you have elsewhere. This is really what I was getting to. That is of course the downside, the upside is the little details will not become a victim to compression...only the lack of proper eqing and leveling.
That's why I compress very very little when recording...just in case the little details of the vocal become more important to me than the little details of the other elements. A lot of Scarface's songs have his vocal pretty buried in the mix...as oppose to say, a Dre mix, which can really put a vocal right in your face.
But nonetheless, you are right...if done properly, you can still knock a considerable amount of DBs off of a vocal and still have it sound pretty damn detailed and in your face.
But at the end of the day, compressing takes away, which makes it a "smaller window"...so it's really an illusion. But good job....good convo.