How Is My Effects Chain?

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Aux1 (Compression) - Bombfactory BF-76/Vocal Rider (though, I'd like to replace the BF-76 with the Softtube Fet, just got it)

Aux2 (Reverb) - ProToos D-Verb or Waves TrueVerb

Aux3 (Delay) - ProTools Mod Delay/SoundToys Echoboy

Aux4 (EQ) - Waves Bundled ssl EQ

MASTER - Waves Bundled UltraMaximizer/ssl EQ

That's pretty much all I use, and that's just for two track/mixtape vocal type ish. Is that order ok and am I missing anything that might be of value to add now (d-esser? gate? expander? exciter? etc.) I'm releasing a project soon and need ANY advice I can you guys can provide.

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Actually reverse that order. Have your EQ first followed by Delay , Reverb and Compression. Try that out and see what you like about it. Reason being is because you have compression first and then everything after you are only compressing the original signal and not the effects on the signal so all the frequencies you have riased in the EQ department are not being compressed.
 
Actually reverse that order. Have your EQ first followed by Delay , Reverb and Compression. Try that out and see what you like about it. Reason being is because you have compression first and then everything after you are only compressing the original signal and not the effects on the signal so all the frequencies you have riased in the EQ department are not being compressed.

They're on different aux buses, not serial.
 
BTW...how important is adding a De-Esser in the effects chain?
 
They're on different aux buses, not serial.

Too true! My bad. Mis-read his post.

Well then to answer your question. That chain looks pretty good to me. You MIGHT want to put a gate on there for vocals but I personally wouldn't. Your good to go.
 
you say you have all these effects on aux tracks... Compression and e.q. should be used on the inserts of the audio track. Compression, because its a dynamic processor, and e.q. isn't "really necessary" but it depends on the mix also. e.q. can clear things up for background vox or add more presence.
but the rest is fine. I can see why you used bus compression, but you should compress the vocals before they go into the bus compression. same with the e.q.
 
Don't think anyone can answer this question without hearing your mix...if your mixes are "good" then it doesn't matter what your chain is does it?
 
You should only put a compressor on an aux if you want to parallel compress the audio.

You can put the Waves C4 Sc compressor on an aux and use it as a sidechain De-esser also but that's pretty advanced mixing..
 
Actually reverse that order. Have your EQ first followed by Delay , Reverb and Compression. Try that out and see what you like about it. Reason being is because you have compression first and then everything after you are only compressing the original signal and not the effects on the signal so all the frequencies you have riased in the EQ department are not being compressed.

I would do it the other way around (apart from the fact that in his case it doesn't matter)

If you eq first and then compress, the compression brings what you cut off back up, not all the way but still

if you eq after compression, you still get a compressed effect but without the freqs you want, or with if you boost.

I actually do both signal-eq-compression-additional eq
 
Id always have delay and reverb after any other kind of processing. Compression after delay/reverb would lengthen the delay & bring out the reverb tail.
 
Id always have delay and reverb after any other kind of processing. Compression after delay/reverb would lengthen the delay & bring out the reverb tail.

Thank u for the tip...makes alot of sense.

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Don't think anyone can answer this question without hearing your mix...if your mixes are "good" then it doesn't matter what your chain is does it?

I always figured the order of the chain was important...the mixes are pretty good but I definitely feel as if they can be improved greatly even with the slightest tweak. I recently used to use like 5 master type effects til I realized I was just muddying the sound. One maximizer and EQ sounded worlds better.
 
Thank u for the tip...makes alot of sense.

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I always figured the order of the chain was important...the mixes are pretty good but I definitely feel as if they can be improved greatly even with the slightest tweak. I recently used to use like 5 master type effects til I realized I was just muddying the sound. One maximizer and EQ sounded worlds better.



why would you use a maximizer? no offense, but thats sorta idiotic.turn the beat down to get the vox to be heard. or gainstage it right.
 
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