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rasmusklump · Post by **rasmusklump** » Mon Sep 08, 2014 1:06 pm

For vocals I only use these two:

http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/CA-2A

http://www.pspaudioware.com/plugins/dyn ... ldtimerme/

Both are very light on cpu and don't introduce latency and have customer friendly copy protection without c/s

Halma · Post by **Halma** » Tue Sep 09, 2014 3:04 pm

Maxwell Smart (with 4ms of latency it should be suitable for live performance) and ReaComp.

Both pretty low on CPU, ultratransparent and free.

Regards
Sebastian

shane1980 · Post by **shane1980** » Tue Sep 09, 2014 4:04 pm

You may check this one, it has a special designed compressor for vocal
http://www.supremepiano.com/product/vocal.html

realmarco · Post by **realmarco** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 12:44 am

you can't use a compressor plugin inside a DAW for live!

there is sound-card latency
if the other tracks and main buss have plugin fx add their latency to your vocal or worse..guitar performance.

you'll quiclky realise that you can't sing live thru a plugin.

this is the Main reason why you have to rent real Compressors

itneveris · Post by **itneveris** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 1:39 am

Dumb question I'm sure, but whats to stop someone from using a guitar stompbox compressor? Too dirty?

Mister Natural · Post by **Mister Natural** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 3:25 am

realmarco wrote:you can't use a compressor plugin inside a DAW for live!
this is the Main reason why you have to rent real Compressors

or buy something like this : http://www.zzounds.com/item--TCEMICMECH

played around with one & found it sounded pretty darn good for $150

best of luck

nineofkings · Post by **nineofkings** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 4:07 am

I use a FastTrack onstage (thankfully only for 2 inputs) and track through a bunch of plugins whenever the song needs it: compression, delay, reverb, sometimes amp sims. The latency is miniscule, assuming the plugins themselves are zero latency.

For no-hassle, extremely functional, pretty transparent compression for mono vocals, I use CamelPhat Free all the time (NOT CamelCrusher). It's the quickest, feels-like-cheating one-slider compression ever, but it works in almost all use cases where the source is a mono vocal. For diverse types of vocalizing like you're describing, it should work very well and is the easiest compressor to work with on vocals.

scintillator · Post by **scintillator** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 5:59 am

izonin · Post by **izonin** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 8:33 am

Depending on the soundcard, you can achieve low latency with a laptop. Best case scenario is if it has a Firewire port. BUT you said that you scream/shout occasionally. That's gonna overload the A/D, and can't be fixed with a DAW plugin. A cheap 1176 clone off of ebay is your only solution.

izonin · Post by **izonin** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 8:34 am

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rasmusklump · Post by **rasmusklump** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 12:27 pm

realmarco wrote:you can't use a compressor plugin inside a DAW for live!

With 48 samples latency on my rme interface I do this dayly and have no problems at all.....

rasmusklump · Post by **rasmusklump** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 12:30 pm

izonin wrote: BUT you said that you scream/shout occasionally. That's gonna overload the A/D, and can't be fixed with a DAW plugin. A cheap 1176 clone off of ebay is your only solution.

Of course it is possible: just set the gain right...

realmarco · Post by **realmarco** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 11:19 pm

itneveris wrote:Dumb question I'm sure, but whats to stop someone from using a guitar stompbox compressor? Too dirty?

nothing , but you'll need some cable adapters though

realmarco · Post by **realmarco** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 11:23 pm

rasmusklump wrote:
izonin wrote: BUT you said that you scream/shout occasionally. That's gonna overload the A/D, and can't be fixed with a DAW plugin. A cheap 1176 clone off of ebay is your only solution.
Of course it is possible: just set the gain right...

the point of a compressor is to attenuate the Dynamic range. without a hardware compressor you won't be able to prevent digital clipping distortion of your sound-cards' analogue to Digital converters

realmarco · Post by **realmarco** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 11:30 pm

rasmusklump wrote:
realmarco wrote:you can't use a compressor plugin inside a DAW for live!
With 48 samples latency on my rme interface I do this dayly and have no problems at all.....

Point of hardware compressor is no latency whatsoever

48 samples ? that can't be right

did u do the cable-from-from-out-into-input and measure the recording delay test ?

Need a light compressor for vocals (used in real-time/live onstage)