Anyone else use Edison to level out vocals?

[Zknight78]

Just wondering if anyone else does this. In cases where the singer has a lot of dynamic and/or has to really belt certain notes/phrases, I have a hard time getting it to sit right in the mix just because the volume is all over the place. One thing that I have started doing is going into Edison and manually editing the volume by selecting phrases or even sometimes individual words and using the amp (alt+a) feature to boost or cut in 2db increments. And obviously the goal isn't to make everything the same volume and take the life out of the performance, but just to find the really loud or quiet notes and bring them down or up a little. Listen, boost, listen again, boost again if needed, etc... Just wanted to ask around and see if anyone else has done or still does this.

Also, I have a decent understanding of compressors and know that this is their primary function, I just like to go in first and tame the audio a bit and THEN let the compressor do it's thing. That way it's working more gently and I'm not having crazy amounts of gain reduction to tame the peaks.

[donkeytugger]

I usually find that a little chat about mic tec...

[Zknight78]

donkeytugger wrote: I don't do this in a wave e...

[donkeytugger]

Zknight78 wrote:donkeytugger wrote: I don't do ...

[Spivkurl]

I try to avoid volume editing like this in edis...

[JackySwing]

Hello , I've never worked on any vocals becaus...

[JOJOLO]

Why not automate the volume (volume multiplier)...

[donkeytugger]

JackySwing wrote:Hello , I've never worked on ...

[JackySwing]

I think there's quite a lot of that goes on all...

[Zknight78]

JOJOLO wrote:Why not automate the volume (volum...

[donkeytugger]

JackySwing wrote: I love stories like that. I ...

[sdh]

An outboard compressor/limiter or two to deal w...

[Lee.]

Didn't use Edison, but I used a volume automati...

[steevm]

As others have said, compression and volume aut...

[Zknight78]

steevm wrote: Don't do destructive editing in E...

[steevm]

Zknight78 wrote:steevm wrote: Don't do destruct...

[Michael Dow]

Absolutely i do TONNES of volume editing on voc...

[L. Scott Knight]

I do this too. Sort of manual compression. So...

[JOJOLO]

Yes , volume automation in the playlist is very...

[jetnaik]

I find volume automation tedious. I feel Newton...