Compression Trick for helping Pop and Rock Vocals to Shine! 

This is really cool. I do something that I think has a similar effect. I call it "parallel upward midrange compression." You need an EQ plugin with adjustable bands like Fab Filter Pro-Q3, and you need Waves MV2. You set up an aux. You put the EQ first on the aux. You set it so that it's cutting everything below 800Hz and everything above 8kHz. Then you feed that into the Waves MV2 with the "upward compression" turned halfway up. This means that you're feeding a bandpassed signal into an upward compressor. Essentially you've now got an aux that is boosting nothing but low-level midrange detail. You then feed your tracks into that to taste. It works great on a lot of instruments (vocals, drums, bass, etc.) -- really anything that can benefit from more midrange detail and consistency. It seems like your trick is accomplishing something very similar. It's creating a very dense and consistent parallel track that's focused on the midrange. I want to try your trick to see if I like it better, or if it's just enough different where both tricks can be useful. Anyway, love your channel so far. Only watched two videos. Hope to see your subscriber base grow, and I look forward to more great tips and tricks.

Looks like you are actually attenuating at 10K on the second EQ, but it sounds great anyway and seems to really control the potential sibilants that would jump up from the LA2A. I happen to be mixing a song that would be perfect for this. Thanks for posting!

Love your video's. Especially using LUNA.

Another great vid, would be great to see some UAD Luna tips, many thanks

Man... you are AMAZING!!! This video is the VERY FIRST to clarify to me why so many have conveyed the importance of "controlling dynamics". I never fully understood that it truly was dynamics (as opposed to a solid vocalist singing loudly then softly, etc.) Your video showed me the impact of taking a blue vocal channel & blending with a red, to translate into "dimensionality" of dynamics. INCREDIBLE!!! ...However (and I apologize for this, and do not at all want it to come across as arrogant or demeaning to the very real value of the video for what it already provides), I would as that you edit it... ...Please append an added portion about "HOW" the mechanics of sandwiching this leveler in between 2 Pultecs, and how each of the settings in one processing effect is impacted down the chain by the next... how does that make the 2 channels sway around one another to expose the leveled, bright radio-voice blended within? I feel like "IF" I understood that "mechanically"... then I would truly be vested with a crucial portion of the "Rosetta Stone" of vocal dynamics processing. Please. :-)

Super cool process! Got an 80's flavor pop balled will be trying it on! Thanks bud!

My go to working in the box is a leveler like the summit audio tla-100 to even everything out but in a more natural reactive way to the audio. Gets to where I need to be faster and less hassle on the mix bus/groups and master. Good tape saturation as well is a must. For me anyway.

This earned you my subscrib!

This is great tip, i always use parallel compresion but i am going to try this. Can you translate the settings from the pultec to fabfilter pro q 3 in terms of boost and attenuation for me please.. thanks for a great vid.

Well...I'll be trying this today.

Awesome vid! Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge!

This is very cool and weirdly before I watched it today I already experimented on a latin percussion bus, which features mega bass durdos and snare like tambourines using 2 UAD Pultecs and an LA 2 'sandwich'. I boosted the bass first, attenuated the HF then the LA 2, then did the reverse and boosted the HF with the second Pultec and it sounded awesome. I had the idea because I wondered what would happen if you boosted and cut but not in the same plugin instance. Was a good guess. But now I will try on vocals! I've implemented your LA2 gain staging trick religiously since I saw that video,

Serious video mate, i saw something vaguely similar on ozone when i needed to make my vocal more exciting and punchy but unfortunatly it diddnt have that tube brightness you get from pultec/La/pultec wombo combo. More videos please, I would love to see your console 1 workflow.