VoiceAssist: Automatic Or Manual?

One thing many engineers and producers love about VoiceAssist is that it automates jobs they hate. The work that happens before you get to the part of the mix you love. Removing breaths, cleaning noise, and setting levels without relying on a compressor to do a job it was never meant to do. Jobs that used to take an afternoon now take a couple of minutes.

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How To High Pass A Vocal Without Thinning The Sound

Most vocal mixers reach for a high-pass filter at some point. Rumble, mic stand vibration, plosives that survived the pop shield, or the air conditioning that the vocalist insisted was off. The question is not so much about cutting; it is about where, how aggressively, and whether the same setting works throughout the song, or if you're dealing with dialogue, when the talent starts booming out. One setting rarely fixes it; that is the problem this article is about.

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