Vocal Peak Limiting

[Jaymz]

Hey up laddies!

Im going to record a vocalist in a few days time and I want to know how to stop the bastard screaming his head off and me clipping to shit. I know its using a compressor/peak limiter? But this is my first time doing anything properly I can't run my VST's in real time with the input echo on (Sonar) because of the latency, however I can turn the latency down but then I cant play back the audio (drop-out).

Any suggestion?

J :Smokin:

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

If it peaks while you're recording, whether you're putting a limiter in your host won't change anything, it has to be limited before it goes into your soundcard. Either use a hardware analog compressor / limiter or just turn the gain down on your channel.

 

[Jaymz]

If it peaks while you're recording, whether you're putting a limiter in your host won't change anything, it has to be limited before it goes into your soundcard. Either use a hardware analog compressor / limiter or just turn the gain down on your channel.

Ahh got ya! Thats what ive been doing up until now, lowering the gain and hoping for the best. Ah well maybe the next purchase will be a hardware compressor

Cheers Brett

 

[smy1]

Don't worry about turning the gain down. Just record in 24bit and you should be fine ...

 

[LSD-Studio]

Ahh got ya! Thats what ive been doing up until now, lowering the gain and hoping for the best. Ah well maybe the next purchase will be a hardware compressor

Cheers Brett

get the safe sound audio P1.
Great Preamp, AWESOME compressor and for you safty..a limiter on the output

 

[smy1]

get the safe sound audio P1.
Great Preamp, AWESOME compressor and for you safty..a limiter on the output

Arndt from Digital Audio Service recommended that to me, too ... are you happy with it in combo with an SM7b?

 

[Jaymz]

Thanks for the recommendations, always a help! Ill look into these

 

[Jaymz]

Dosent look like I can get hold of ome of those safe sound audio P1's in the UK

Any other ones to look out for?

 

[Metaltastic]

I find that hard to believe, seeing as how it says here that they're hand-assembled in the UK!

http://www.frontendaudio.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=1901

 

[Jaymz]

Well ive googled it and found nothing so if you will supply me with a UK link then fair enough.

 

[derfbonker]

Teach him some mic technique. When he gets loud he should pull away from the mic, and vice versa.

 

[Jaymz]

Teach him some mic technique. When he gets loud he should pull away from the mic, and vice versa.

Ill give it a whirl

 

[Jaymz]

The Focusrite Trackmaster Pro seems to be a nice bit of kit for £150, anybody used one of these?

 

[Suicide_As_Alibi]

The Focusrite Trackmaster Pro seems to be a nice bit of kit for £150, anybody used one of these?

Yup, I've got one - it's solid enough, nice for vocals. I've put everything through it; mic'ed cabs, cello, violin, DI bass and it all comes out sounding clean and not too coloured.

Steve