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<blockquote data-quote="Phil Graham" data-source="post: 90743" data-attributes="member: 430">Re: Some SFN guys do some mixing in Phil&#039;s neighborhood.My wife and I were involved in putting on the neighborhood festival as volunteers (<a href="http://www.kirkwoodfling.com/" target="_blank">2013 Kirkwood Spring Fling Festival (11th Annual)</a>). Since I&#039;m the guy in the neighborhood with production experience, it was an interesting day of applying that knowledge to aid other volunteers (mostly involving electricity). Other than firing and metering the gensets for Mike, Kemper, and Eric, loading in, loading out, and some mixing mid day, I ended up spending the rest of the day configuring stuff or fighting fires other places on site.I do like a lot of compression on vocals, it is the sound of vox on records. The fun thing about the 1066 is that everything is in dB/msec, so you absolutely have to dial it in by ear. I would qualify both my attack and release as still reasonably fast on vocals, and I used over-easy mode. I tend to use ratios between 2 - 6:1 on most sources. If you shorten the attack on vocals to knock down the &quot;bite&quot; on consonants a bit, you can always add back some 12kHz for clarity on the channel strip.As a comparison in a setting with more conventional settings, my Presonus StudioLive 16.4 vox compression settings are:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">2.5:1</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">&quot;Soft&quot;</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">2.5ms attack (1ms for those who shout/spit)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">75ms release (sometimes a bit shorter or longer)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">12-18dB GR depending on the singer</li>
</ul></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Phil Graham, post: 90743, member: 430"] Re: Some SFN guys do some mixing in Phil's neighborhood. My wife and I were involved in putting on the neighborhood festival as volunteers ([URL="http://www.kirkwoodfling.com/"]2013 Kirkwood Spring Fling Festival (11th Annual)[/URL]). Since I'm the guy in the neighborhood with production experience, it was an interesting day of applying that knowledge to aid other volunteers (mostly involving electricity). Other than firing and metering the gensets for Mike, Kemper, and Eric, loading in, loading out, and some mixing mid day, I ended up spending the rest of the day configuring stuff or fighting fires other places on site. I do like a lot of compression on vocals, it is the sound of vox on records. The fun thing about the 1066 is that everything is in dB/msec, so you absolutely have to dial it in by ear. I would qualify both my attack and release as still reasonably fast on vocals, and I used over-easy mode. I tend to use ratios between 2 - 6:1 on most sources. If you shorten the attack on vocals to knock down the "bite" on consonants a bit, you can always add back some 12kHz for clarity on the channel strip. As a comparison in a setting with more conventional settings, my Presonus StudioLive 16.4 vox compression settings are: [LIST] [*]2.5:1 [*]"Soft" [*]2.5ms attack (1ms for those who shout/spit) [*]75ms release (sometimes a bit shorter or longer) [*]12-18dB GR depending on the singer [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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