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Recording Vocals

Recording & Mixing

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The Benefits of Printed Compression for Vocal Tracking

The added benefit of printed compression is with the headphone mixer the performer you'll often find that vocalists get a more sort of proximate in your face vocal sound. Be careful though unless you really know what you're doing as a general guide it's best to start with only providing no more than maybe 6 to 8 dB of gain reduction at most and only that gain reduction impacting the louder notes. With a relatively fast attack and a medium to slower release due to the vocal performance having a slower metering sounds like this.

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