Clip Gain VS Vocalrider?

[Kaleb Formz]

SO I've been wondering for a while. I love clip gain I feel like its a way more musical way to automate than manual pencil dot automation. I feel like sometimes I get cough up with increasing volumes of certain beginning and end phrases getting real anal when sometimes it doesn't really sound natural. With Clip gain It just sounds way more natural and pleasing to me. -Plus it's faster.
So I bought Vocalrider a while back and and when I use it , I don't know maybe i'm no good at it yet but it just never hits the mark for me. I know some people say its just to get you a good start but I've never really had pleasing success with it.


My question. Am I just not good at Vocalrider or has anyone else had the same experience? I know it's a matter of preference, but I don't want to say no to Vrider right away and have someone tell me "Bro..the way it smoothly rides that fader is so...on point.. you're missing out" Lol idk.

Thanks

 

[Kaleb Formz]

Bump!

 

[Kaleb Formz]

Over 400 no one??

 

[Kaleb Formz]

I think doing manual automation beats the Vocal Rider everytime.
I use the Vocal Rider though, since it's faster for me and I usually compress the fuck out of vocals anyway.

Just automate that stuff if it makes your dick hard.

Lol my god I thought I was in the phantom zone or something. Thanks for the reply! Yeah I think I'm gonna switch to just manual completely I just didn't want to find out if i spent more time learing Vrider I could save a lot of time but Idk it's never hitting the mark, even close for me. Thanks again!

 

[RedDog]

Hand automation. Especially if you're compressing to fuck anyway. broad leveling strokes, you can eyeball these in reaper, then the compression becomes more of a saturation and coloring tool. you can pin the vu from here and automate pushes manually to work with a dense mix.