So its like using audio detection and finetuning it a bit. So it 'recovers' from high peaks way too slow. Must say that the only issue with it is that the decay is rather slow. Once the vocal rider we just mentioned does its job. The last plugin in my signal chain on podcast tracks is Vocal Rider, which automatically keeps dialog levels steady and does so without the coloration of compression. Waves Vocal Rider is a handy tool for getting a vocal more constant in level. But I don’t understand the argument that it does something totally different than what you can accomplish with compression. The Waves MV2 isnt specifically a vocal plugin, but its especially useful when mixing vocals. Maybe it’s easier to use, maybe someone wants to argue that compressors can be difficult to fine tune to get the same effect without coloring the sound in a different way. I’m not saying the vocal rider is useless, I’ve never used it. That’s true if the threshold is set somewhere between the peaks and the average audio level, but if you lower it even more and set the attack and release to the fastest value, don’t you just get the same behavior as the vocal rider?
When you turn down the volume you are lowering the dynamic range, by definition, because the quietest possible sound doesn’t change but the loudest ones get lower.īased on that gif it seems you actually mean to be making a different argument - that compression lowers just the peaks without affecting the RMS level. In this free video tutorial, brought to you with the support of Waves, you will learn how to control the vocal track dynamics using Waves Vocal Rider.This plug-in is a great compressor plug-in alternative. What plugins are used for mixing Which is the best autotune Should I use mono or stereo plugins on vocals What plugins should I. Dynamic range is “the ratio between the largest and smallest values that a certain quantity can assume.” The highest peak to the quietest sound you can hear.