I only have the LA-610 at present, but it’s pretty much the same compressor (and a sweet pre and EQ to boot). LA-2a is still king of vocal compressors for me. Have you tried the McDSP Moo? That thing is insanely good. We seriously need a better Artificial Intelligent vocal rider Or maybe the variable-mu is the best method yet. A serious design flaw imo because you then need to Write the automation and fix that. Vocal Rider fader jumps down and stays down for a long time. Thinking in terms of 'release' is probably the wrong approach.īut still there's an issue when you have a loud part in the vocal.

Thats the thing, its not a compressor and you can't treat it like one.

Maybe I will delete the Vocal Rider for this project and go for the MJUC. I tend to believe it sounds better than the Vocal Rider and without the need to refix things with automation.Įditing a big podcast series at the moment. The MJUC is currently my fav compressor for taming dynamics without making it sound compressed. Here's an example of the interview recorded on my Sony D-50 using firstly the MJUC and then the Vocal Rider: The Klanghelm MJUC comes very close and is more flexible. Since I am using Ableton for audio editing I have been searching for something else. 100% clean and using the slow settings it works like a fader. The best compressor I know for voices is the McDSP Moo. I always need to correct that via Write automation and changing the envelopes. It doesn't recover fast enough from peaks. The Vocal Rider has in my opinion a irritation problem: the decay is extremely slow (I have been asking Waves for a decay parameter, but no luck). I am still not happy with my config for voices.

That way you get a very consistent sound from your speakers/panelists. My typical chain for voiceovers or discussion panels is:Ĭompressor with large knee (6-12dB) and hard compression (>10:1) ->ĮQ for 'sound' (typical 'smile' for TV/broadcast, not much for live) I usually use it in combination with a compressor and then I mostly don't have to do much more in terms of dynamics. Vocal Rider is indispensable when you're doing a lot of speech stuff.

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