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Originally Posted by ShadowAMD  Harmonic nature of good outboard compressor can make a track easier to mix, save time with excessive automation and use sc to bring out desired frequencies. There are plenty of renowned engineers e.g. butch vig, pensado etc. Chris lord alge (especially Cla  ) That still track with compressers.
I really disagree with your statement, if you like to do things the long and hard way.. potentially missing out on sonic signatures you desire, then I think its silly. PBC-6A in thick mode, for some low end compressor fun. Or even the classic La2a used on people like beyonce etc.
Your pretty much saying that they are all wrong (there are thousands more at least). If that's the case I don't want to be right.
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To get the "character" compression, you need to hit pretty hard, that's certainly not what you want to do when tracking.
Additionally the original poster was talking about $500 and a TL Audio compressor, both of which are not going to buy you the sort of compressors that CLA, Tony Maserati, Butch Vig, etc, use.
A better option (at the op's price point) would be to buy some good plugin's and use them post recording. Ok, this is not quite the way that CLA maybe doing things, but it will get 90-95% of the effect at an affordable price, the CLA method requires £1,000's worth of choice, vintage compressors and the absolute knowledge of how to use them correctly and why.
Another factor is that the OP is recording his own voice, it's impossible to accurately "hear" what the compressor's character is doing whilst he is singing, that coupled with the fact that it will effect the way he sings are good enough reasons to try and leave it too later.
What has to be remembered is that these techniques had to be used years ago as even a well equipped studio probably only had 5-8 compressors in the room, with modern DAW's this isn't the case any more.