On Tuesday 02 June 2009 17.49.32 Ricus Vincente wrote: > I do compress vocals, but to too aggressively, and like Roger Nichols, > I ride the fader til I get the vocal to sit in the mix nicely. Very interesting. I have heard some recordings lately where the fader is used instead of compressor on vocals, and it sounds much more dynamic and clear IMO; and the Roger Nichols related stuff is always great, I love Steely Dan. :-) The Swedish Laleh - which sings with extreme dynamics - use the fader and she sounds fantastic. All this current over use of compression makes vocals and (recordings generally) sound like a working circular saw when it's cutting wood. I know that they do it on order to be heard on lousy radio stations and noisy environments, but it should be prohibited. :-) Or they could at least make a HiFi-version for every recording. Jostein _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
