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Icone
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Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Leuven, Belgium

Mostly, I put some reverb and EQ. Sometimes some delay if it are more 'voxes' than vocals.

In some cases, you'd also need a de-esser if the vocalist has a kind of sharp 's' to it

I hardly put any compression on it as vocals are often meant to be dynamic 'components' to your music. Compressing them will take away some (or all) of that.

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Sep-22-2007 14:53 Belgium

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Pjotr G
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Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Netherlands

EQ, reverb, delay --> in the mix

when I pre-edit the vocal track I deal with compression, and manually getting rid of anomalies (cutting unwanted sounds; usually by hand)

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Bipolar Bear

Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Dublin

Bah - nobody has mentioned a channel strip? Features vary between models/plugins but they usually all have some sort of band equaliser, a band compressor, a de-esser and some sort of band saturation/overdrive stage.

Its my first port of call for any vocal recording straight off the bat.

Sep-22-2007 17:11 Ireland

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I<3acid
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Registered: Sep 2007
Location: ny slum

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Originally posted by System101
ok compress after and ruin the other FX have fun

how about i compress where it sounds best, which is different in many different situations.
by best sounding i do not mean most generic.

you can really bring out some fucked up things when you use compression creatively. Not saying you cant be creative with it in the front, but having "rules" is going to really narrow opportunity.

if vocals are recorded right you shouldnt need to compress them at the beginning anyways.