Here is part 1 and part 2 of this review.
In this continuing series reviewing VPre we are going to look at the Compressor section.
Again VPre has an excellent tutorial on this section
Compressing a Voice Recording with VPre from Bennie Cook on Vimeo.
The compressor section does what it says on the tin and I did like the separate limiter section and there appears to be a significant amount of headroom in this section so it can cope well with sudden loud sections like laughter. I did find it easy to over compress with this section but thinking about it that may be because I didn’t get the artifacts I would normally expect. That said I am not sure the compressor section will become my compressor of choice, I just love Waves Renaissance Vox with about 4 to 6dBs of gain reduction. I spent time a/b ing between the two and although I could get VPre close it never got the exact sound I like from the Ren Vox.
More on VPre in subsequent posts – next the metering section.
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