I am hoping someone can shed some light on the proper order, and hopefully some general settings, for processing vocals. I am specifically referring to compressing, normalizing, noise gates, limiting, pre-limiting with gain, etc. I have an okay handle on reverb and such but these other areas are a bit daunting. Which of these need to be done? What is the order of operations? Are there general settings that you would recommend? Are they different for ballads versus uptempo songs?

Sorry for so many questions but I simply don't understand the settings on the different features. The help guides give general settings that are mostly geared toward instruments, and even at that, I find it confusing. For example, it might say that in order to make something better/faster, you need to increase the threshold. So, if the threshhold is in negatives, does increasing mean adding more negative or reducing it? Lol. This stuff probably makes sense to everyone else, but it flies right over my head.

If I at least had a general ballpark for the settings and such, I would feel much better. Thanks for everyone's help.


Ricky

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