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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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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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At their core – Gain Reduction Deluxe & Gain Reduction 2 have all been developed for just that purpose: the reduction of gain. But what exactly does that entail, how does it work, what makes it different than everything else, and most importantly, why do you need it?
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Vocal compression is one of the few subtle techniques used in the studio that have been carried from decade to decade in the studio. Even before hardware compression was introduced, engineers would naturally overdrive their hardware or tape machines for an organic, natural compression – what many today simply refer to as saturation.
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Lead vocals deserve thick and present in just about any major music production. Sometimes, that requires you to record layer after layer of vocals making them harmonically dense and filling out the frequency spectrum. Other times, all it requires is a single, well-recorded voice with some post-processing that helps ...
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