Compressor Release, Technical Question?
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- KVRian
- 587 posts since 22 Nov, 2005 from Music-journalist/freelance audioengineer from Helsinki, Finland
If you ask me, that it is the one thing you should never do - put a noise gate to vocals (and I don't mean feedback destroyers and noise supressors). If the singer is live on stage but nothing comes thru if the threshold is too high, that sounds really unprofessional. Believe me, I've tried that, but I stopped doing it 5 years ago after the second time I used it, when trying to prevent the feedback that came from the poorly configured PA-system when it was silent.kaufi wrote:If your compressor isn't fast enough to catch your peaks even with the fastest attack, I would set a GATE befor the Comp. At vocals I do this every time. Sounds more pro, but don't ask me how long it tooks me to found out that! (almost a year - coincedence)
If the compressor is too slow, just lower the threshold or put another compressor after it with 0-1ms attack.
Basic EQ tip: highpass all that don't hit subs, usually all but bass and kick