Not for everyone, but you can get a lot of really cool sounds of it. When it works, itвЂ™s solid as hell, and it works well on singing vocals and itвЂ™s a wonderful bass DI.Д¬onsider it a dark chocolate preamp flavor in the world of similarly metaphorically-flavored gear. ItвЂ™s definitely not the most intuitive unit in the world, and for voiceover, you can get away with a lot cheaper and easier to use.

It does come on very strongly very quickly, and there arenвЂ™t any controls like knee, attack, or release to fine-tune, as theyвЂ™re all tied into the unitвЂ™s algorithm. IвЂ™ve given it some different output tubes to open up the sound a bit, giving it more headroom and letting the compressor breathe a little more. This unitвЂ™s served me very well over the years. I canвЂ™t imagine a voiceover situation that would require more compression than that going in, unless your voice is an actual bass guitar. 5-1.5 on the compressor, depending on what IвЂ™m doing. The big knobs are your input level, compression, and output. ItвЂ™s just awesome and does a lot, and IвЂ™m very familiar with it, which is why itвЂ™s in my house.) Experiment to taste works well with some voices, other benefit from a more solid-state sound. (By the way, IвЂ™ll say this now вЂ“ if youвЂ™re starting out, or are ONLY interested in voiceover, this unit is too much and not really what you need. I like a little bit to help fuzz out otherwise offensive mouth noises, and to give my sound a little character, since thatвЂ™s what I paid so damn much for. So on the left side, youвЂ™ve got a gain knob, which adds tube warmth to the sound. But since weвЂ™re focusing mainly on VO, I can attest, it treats the voice very well.В In my humble opinion. A lot of folks beat up on it because its compressor can be too dark, too extreme, too flattening, and those are valid concerns. We used on vocals, guitars, as a bass DI.it was used on pretty much every session in some capacity. This sleek, sexy little unit is what I was primarily trained on at CCM Studios in Denver. The Universal Audio LA-610: Good for Voice Over?

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