Waves C4 Multiband Compressor Plugin

[brandondrury]

I was doing some final tweaking on a vocal. I wanted to hit just the low mids with maybe 1dB of compression so I grabbed the Waves C4. Immediately, the entire vocal got DULL! I mean I had it right where I wanted it and it sounded like I just knocked off 2dB from anything above 2Khz. It made the problem WAY worse.

The interesting part is I had all the individual bands on bypass.

When I bypassed the entire plugin, my highs were back.

It actually sounded more like a loss in fidelity than just EQ. I have never seen such a drastic loss in fidelity. I never really paid attention.

Is anyone else having this problem? I'm going to need to use something because I don't really want to have to automate the entire song to cut 1dB from the low mids everytime the singer hits a phrase that sounds deeper.

I may try the Voxengo stuff.

Brandon

[dach]

I don't have that problem... but actually, I like the C4 on vocals alot but can always seem to find something better....

[brandondrury]

I need to look into more. I've got a feeling that something was causing this. I'm not sure what.

I've never noticed it before I've used that plugin for years.

I'll try to repeat it and see what happens.

Brandon