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there's not much in the 'placement' of an sm7, other than how on axis you are
contrary to what everyone is sayng above, i'm not saying you're using 'too many' plugins, use as many as you like. however i am thinking that you probably aren't using them correctly
and i think it's fine to chain a few compressors, using each one quite subtly.
try:
EQ (just cutting and HPF) -> 1176 -> LA2A -> another EQ for boosts if necessary -> de-esser if necessary
bus your reverb, or experiment putting it before/after the de-esser. if you do bus it, try a de-esser on the reverb bus.
that's not many less plugins that he's using now, but i do NOT see this as 'too many'. i would just do a few db of reduction with each of the UA compressors, and experiment using them switched around too. alternatively, just one of them might work really well, so you can just experiment with bypassing certain things and turning up the compression on the non-bypassed compressor. i haven't used a software la3a, but it's possible this would take the place of both these compressors if it's anything like it is in real life. then you'd only need one compressor.
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