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Originally Posted by danno812  I never compress while tracking VO or recommend it. Any perceived benefit from doing so can certainly be achieved during mixing. |
I've never understood this mentality. There are numerous benefits to processing while tracking, for one, you don't have to do it later, two, its recorded to the track, so you can't lose the settings later on, and three, if your client is sitting in the room with you, you want the VO to sound as good as possible during the recording process, so I'll even tweak some EQ. I'm not talking very drastic eq or compression, but if it sounds good now, why wouldn't it sound good later? If the VO sounds great during your recording, the client won't start second guessing themselves and get down on the VO. The auditions they heard we're probably eq'd and compressed too.