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I'm into cascading multiple stages of gentle compression. 2-4db of lightning fast limiting on a vocal's peaks, into 1-2db of slow attack soft knee compression, to tape. Then another 4-8db med. attack while mixing, 0-3db on the 2bus. Everything low ratio, 1.5 or 2:1.
Keeping the ratios low, attacks on the slow side and dialing the releases to breathe with the pulse results in a luscious, thick sound, totally controlled, but with enough transients and motion to still be full of life.
Nathan is dead on: keep it conservative while tracking, you can't undo compression but you can always add more later. Fletcher's on it too: top-notch comps are indeed a gift from god. Then again, so are top notch pre's, and eq's, converters and a summing bus... tape's not too shabby either, come to think of it.
u b i k
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