Multiband Compressor

[Switchcraft]

I like the C4 on vocals. It really brings its presents out.

[Realtugs]

Tis the Season

[Waylon]

the C4 on electric piano ( not rhodes nessaciarly, but piano samples) traly helps deal with the transient respopse in the mids for me...

I use multiband alot as a "dynamic EQ"...

[Revelation]

Originally posted by Switchcraft
I like the C4 on vocals. It really brings its presents out.

Why not just use the Ren Vox, or Ren compressor? What does the multiband compressor do with vocals since it is a single freq'?

[Telecastr]

i like it on bass and/or kick sometimes.

[MASSIVE Master]

I barely ever touch MBC's unless there's a particular reason. Unless the client says "just make it really loud" or something. I suppose it comes in handy for that.

I'd say that I use them in mixing much more than in mastering generally.

[Kenny Gioia]

Originally posted by Switchcraft
I like the C4 on vocals. It really brings its presents out.

Just in time for Christmas.

Or did you mean presence?

[Kenny Gioia]

Originally posted by Revelation
Why not just use the Ren Vox, or Ren compressor? What does the multiband compressor do with vocals since it is a single freq'?

I may be confused by what you are thinking but Vocals are not a single frequency.

A sine wave is.

Using a 5 band C4 can basically de-ess the vocal while also controlling the lows seperately from controlling the nasalness.

It can really help a singer who has very rapid changes in tone.

the c4 has been pretty helpful for me with boomy acoustic guitars and a rhodes piano i did with an overpowering low end.

[joeq]

sometimes I haul one out on 'problem' tracks - often rhythm guitar or piano, but honestly, half the time I end up taking it off, starting over and finding a different way to solve the problem.

I keep trying to think of multiband as an 'EQ alternative' or whatever but usually it leaves me dissatisfied. YMMV