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Compressing the vocals

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Compressing the vocals

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If there is one instrument that greatly benefits from compression, it's the human voice. Most singers are unable to sing every word or line at the same level, so some words get buried as a result. Compression evens out the level differences so you can better hear every word. In this movie, I will show you how to set up the compressor to do just that. The first thing we're going to do is listen to the vocal just by itself, so we're going to solo it. (music playing) Now let's listen with the track. (music playing) A couple of things. The first is that this track was already compressed when it was recorded, so it's fairly leveled already. Although towards the end of the turnaround in "never like this before," we start to lose some of the words there. Another thing is you can hear a lot of sibilance, and that's an excessive amount of S's and that's because of the way it was compressed originally, but we'll talk about that in another movie and how to get rid of it. So what we're going to…

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