How to Compress Vocals on a Yamaha M7CL

[@TimmyP1955]

I prefer the sound of the Yamaha and Behringer comps with the knee at its hardest.

[@sonidofish2011]

Hello the videos are very good and I state videos like these you can do more like piano keyboard tubal accordions thanks

[@kpeel1357]

Do you compress background vocals?

[@OwnTheMix]

As always, it depends. One of the downsides of compressing anything is that the noisefloor (background noise outside of the closely-mic'd source) volume is increased while the closely-mic'd source's volume is decreased (at least the peak volume moments). In most stage layouts, the background vocalists appear near the drummer, whose loud drums and cymbals tend to overtake the microphones of the background vocalists. Therefore, when you compress the vocalists, the drum volume (and usually the cymbal volume most) increases. So...you can compress them, but generally, it causes more problems than it's worth.