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What should you be taking into consideration when it comes to limiting the number of plugins in your vocal chain? Keep reading to find out!
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Compressors are some of the most powerful tools available to recording engineers and mixers in the studio, but they also happen to be misused the most often.
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Rock music has stuck with the formula its fans know and love: big, bombastic drums, walls of distorted electric guitars & at the front of it all a singer belting out powerful, brazen vocals. A distinctive tonality comes with nearly every voice in rock that exudes confidence and authority in a way that no other genre consistently does. As the mix engineer on those sessions, how can you be sure that you’re enhancing your singer’s performance to showcase those features?
Truth be told – turning up the gain on the amp and the effects of gain reduction aren’t very dissimilar at all. They both add harmonic distortion and saturation to a signal. They both work to effectively even out the peaks of a signal, resulting in a smoother, more even sound. So if they’re virtually doing a lot of things the same, how does gain reduction stand out from other processes in the recording studio?
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Today, the same aggression and raw performances are there, but the technology has changed the way we approach recording and mixing grunge.
