"..you really have to ride the fader, stay with them, and keep the voice really aboveWe certainly are aligned in thinking. Compressors and automated level adjusters are the norm for engineers but in my opinion, they are overused and the "easy way out". With Octave Record's new Pyramix system using the phase perfect Zephiir conversion process, we're able to take full advantage of the control surface automation capabilities (a control surface is just a big fancy remote control where no signal passes through it) to ride the faders ever so slightly. It gives me great hope for the future of acquiring wonderful new recordings when true gems like Anderson and Schwartz are at the helm. Click here to read the article written by John Seetoo.and all that kind of thing. It’s a very natural thing to let the voice trail off at the end of a phrase. But in a recording, you really have to counteract that; you have to kind of flatten it out. Now, you could do it with a compressor, people do it all the time – or with limiters. But we would much rather have it be a more natural occurrence, rather than “kind of” fix it technically."
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