1-VOCAL TUNING
2-CONTINUITY of levels = The Waves Vocal Rider / Volume automation
3- SIBILANCE : The Waves Renaissance DeEsser / The Waves Sibilance
4- WARMTH : The Waves PuigTec MEQ5 – The “Midrange Equalizer” = Broad boost between 200Hz and 500Hz
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Softube Tube-Tech Mid-range equalizer
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passive pultec eq style plugin allaince :
-green_cross:Lindell Audio PEX-500
-Bettermaker EQ232D(mastering)
-SPL Passeq(mastering)
-Knif Audio Soma (mastering)
5-Tube compressor for tone :The classic Fairchild 660/670 (available by Waves as PuigChild Compressor) = we are not after compression for level automation here, but want to add harmonics on top of the low mid boost and create a sense of glue ,A compressor after an EQ boost works so well because the two components interact
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Plugin Alliance SPL IRON tube comp / NEOLD V76U73 / NEOLD U17 solid state & with all-tube
6-Light tape saturation can also work here
7-PRESENCE :Various boosts between 1kHz and 8kHz (SSL EQ) : this is were we create the frequencies that make the vocal cut through the rest of the instruments
8-ATTITUDE: CLA MixHub(combines both a classic SSL-type EQ and the BlueStripe compressor into one plugin) : The classic Bluestripe compressor :: his compressor’s job is to tame the mid-boosts we’ve just created. We want to see it work hard and fast, but it needs to have a lot of musicality to reduce the harshness of the mid boosts.
BLUYE 1176
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Purple Audio MC77 Fet Compressor (An ideal recreation of the classic 1176 limiter)
9-FINAL TONE AND DYNAMICS CONTROL : Waves PuigTec EQP-1A here, to boost at 20Hz, and attenuate at 20kHz
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Softube Tube-Tech Classic Channel
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Lindell Audio PEX-500
Mäag Audio EQ4
10-Brickwall Limiter
