4 Mistakes to Avoid When Compressing Vocals
4 Mistakes to Avoid When Compressing Vocals I recently came across a great article by Rob Mayzes at The Pro Audio Files about vocal compression, and the common mistakes people make. The article simplified concepts that can often feel overwhelming. Since vocal compression is something I’m sure most of us could at least use a refresher on, I’d like to go over the concepts brought to light by Mr. Mayzes and include some of my personal experience as well. The vocal sound you are trying to achieve will vary by genre, but a cornerstone of modern vocals is consistency in level and clarity. Most of us recognize a compressor as the solution to this problem, but attempting to achieve a modern, punchy sound with a single compressor can often lead to over-compression. This leads us to our first common mistake: 1. Relying on Compression Alone Naturally, the human voice …
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5 Tips For Getting Huge Drum Sounds
5 Tips For Getting Huge Drum Sounds Grammy nominated and Spelleman Award winning audio engineer, Matthew Weiss, has blessed us with a few tips on how to get huge drum sounds. He clarifies that he is referring to the “huge” sound that fits with more rock, pop records that are using either acoustic drums or a live drum feel. However, his tips will inform any curious producer or engineer and understanding other styles can only take your skills to the next level. I’ll summarize his five points below. Embrace The Space – to get character and energy in your drums you need to embrace the space in which you’re recording. Even if it isn’t acoustically perfect, it is working with those inconsistencies and quarks that will MAKE your sound. A controlled space can very easily sound dead and boring. Fake It If You Can’t Make It – if …
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Free Self Adaptive Limiter from D16 Group – Frontier
Free Self Adaptive Limiter from D16 Group – Frontier Easy, Multi-Purpose and Free Frontier is a new Self Adaptive Limiter from D16 group. It’s a very simple plugin with the same familiar design all D16 plugins share. It is offered as a free download if you have a D16 account (also free). divider style=”clear” A few words from the develeper Multitude of applications “Quality and performance makes Frontier a perfect tool for almost any studio situation. Its simple and clear interface in combination with excellent sound quality will surely be appreciated by any engineer looking for efficient way of controlling dynamics of a channel, bus or even master output. Frontier can be used as very transparent mixing / mastering limiter (at certain settings) with just licking the loudest amplitude peaks, or can be utilized more creatively, as sound shaper, when more extreme settings are at stake.” Self-adaptive “Algorithm for automatic …
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