like a NUMBER_TOKEN it's got all the bottom end and mid-range push of a NUMBER_TOKEN with the top-end air or top-end sizzle of like kind of like a cNUMBER_TOKEN kind of a like a more airy uh NUMBER_TOKEN anyway one of my favorite vocal microphones that was the microphone that i used to track these vocals i think it's absolutely incredible and i'm i'm blown away by how this microphone sounds now the song largely dictates uh what type of compression what compressor we're going to use and how much compression we're gonna use example a really soft acoustic vocal or a soft piano vocal sort of thing is gonna get much less vocal compression than a really dense hard-hitting rock song or a rock rock country tune or like a really modern dense pop mix those songs though that dense aggressive hard-hitting close in your face kind of songs they're going to get much much more compression and more aggressive compression than the softer mortality more natural organic sort of music now in addition to the actual settings and how hard we're hitting the compressor every type of compressor has a different sort of sound so all the famous models of compressors you've seen throughout history they have a character to them and a lot of the plugins even the transparent plugins there's a particular character to them even if that character is that it's transparent and so i think it's important to try out different compressors on every song if you want or find out the compressors like experiment try a whole bunch of compressors out and figure out what one you think you like best and if you're not sure just continue that experimentation song after song after song after song and you will eventually find ones that you end up leaning into more than others and that's awesome that's a good thing now for me personally the vocal compressor is an NUMBER_TOKEN and i promise you it's not because universal audio is sponsoring this video it's actually because that's what it is and i'm pumped to have them sponsor this video because it's my favorite vocal compressor a huge percentage of my favorite mix is coming up we're done by chris lord algae and he famously uses a blue stripe of vintage blue stripe NUMBER_TOKEN on his vocals he also famously has like NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKENs and instead of turning the knobs on them he patches a different one in but that's a whole other conversation so some version of an NUMBER_TOKEN plug-in or hardware has been on my vocal in every single mix nearly every single mix for the better part of my entire career so we're talking thousands of songs here uh the la-NUMBER_TOKENa is a fantastic choice for more chill ballad style stuff softer stuff it's a much softer more round pillowier compressor laNUMBER_TOKENa is great for that stuff and another one that i really like is the fab filter compressor for a plug-in transparent ultra transparent compressor really like that compressor and i also use the fabfilter multi-band compressor on pretty much every single vocal chain in addition to the NUMBER_TOKEN and when we get into pro tools in the minute we're gonna i'm gonna go over all of these details and show you guys how i set it up and let you hear it all so one of the techniques that i use all the time i
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