can I highend compressor, used as an insert be enough for the whole mix?..

[tunesmith]

Yo dude...

Ren Comp is ok for vox and stuff... but if you have the diamond bundle, you're gonna want to have a go with the Linear Phase Multi Band Comp and L3.

As for an external...

People swear by a few stereo comps around here, including

Alan Smart C2 - I had one of these and actually sold it, not because it sounded bad (it sounded great) but because I figured out that I wasn't doing much 2-bus comping and I wanted a different flavor for my vocals.

Manley Vari-Mu

CraneSong STC-8

[activexjava]

Originally Posted by tunesmith

Yo dude...

Ren Comp is ok for vox and stuff... but if you have the diamond bundle, you're gonna want to have a go with the Linear Phase Multi Band Comp and L3.

As for an external...

People swear by a few stereo comps around here, including

Alan Smart C2 - I had one of these and actually sold it, not because it sounded bad (it sounded great) but because I figured out that I wasn't doing much 2-bus comping and I wanted a different flavor for my vocals.

Manley Vari-Mu

CraneSong STC-8

thanks for your comments .. actually I am not sure how far can I go with software .. for example I completely abandoned the plugin verbs .. eventhough I have IR and Wizoo W2 .. which sounds good ..but I wanted more stability .. so I went and got a lexicon PCM-91 .. which is one monster unit .. but this is good enough for the mix .. not sure what else I should get ...

[robmix]

When in doubt, rent a few things and try them out.

[slaves666]

I have a pair of LA-4's that I like a lot. A distressor works great, 2 even better.

[username]

if you've got good converters it's sometimes worth the extra conversion stage to go down to the compressor and come back up..

also remember if you have one highend compressor you can use it on multiple things as you track..

I'd much prefer to have one realy nice stereo compressor and the waves stuff than 3 or 4 reasonable ones