Seconding the compressor. I often start with the Classic Compressor and use the second vocal preset. It can be found on jcspro40's website I believe (I hope I got the name right so you can find it in his signature on his posts). Its a fairly simple compressor with decent presets as starting points. Adjust the threshold and compression ratio to suit. These are often the first two I tinker with.

When doing this, and this applies to other effects too, remember the sound goes through the track settings first (including slider), then thru the Track FX. Then you can send *some* of that sound to the AUX (using AUX dial for track), and then both the Track sound (after Track FX) and the AUX output get sent to the main out (A1 in lower right of mixer for most users). That is the routing for the mixer.

So if you want to reverb them, set a reverb up in the AUX section of the mixer and use the AUX dial on each vocal track to feed the single reverb effect. That way they sound like they were all in the same room, you can change the reverb for all the vocal tracks at once, and you can control the wet dry mix manually by adjusting the AUX out volume dial to match the dry being sent from the Track.
For this reason (the routing mentioned above) it is wise to set the 'wet/dry' mix ratio on the reverb effect all the way to wet when using reverb in the AUX position. Otherwise, if you let the AUX send more dry out, it is sending more dry again to the main out. It's better to have the out from the Track (which also gets sent to the main out seperately) be your dry. Avoids some complexities (and problems) when mixing.

Last edited by rharv; 08/05/11 04:45 PM.
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