Trackmaster, Voicemaster or Voicemaster Pro?

[EOSPete]

Does increased cost mean big jump in quality?
Would be used for vocals in a project studio. Also have 3060 (with gates) which I think could be patched in to control studio noise
Can't find a download for manual for Original Voicemaster (Would need to be 2nd user - I am watching one (£120) and I know that VMPro (£340ish) and Trackmaster (£180-ish) seem to get rave reviews.
I haven't used either and at the moment I use the pre-amps on my mixer straight into the interface into CS4

Would appreciate benefit of someone's experience.
Cheers
P

[Escape Velocity]

*grin* Thanks - but these are just things I'd fiddle with until I got the sound I wanted, rather than cosmic wisdom from on high. For all I know there's a far simpler way of doing this.

Actually - thinking about it... expander/gates usually work in tandem... maybe expand the signal THEN gate it. Perhaps a multi-band expander/gate would be more useful? If the "anti-transients" (i.e. signals below the threshold level) that keep triggering the gate are in a particular frequency range, perhaps you can use a lower threshold for that frequency and a higher threshold level for less sensitive frequency blocks? With reverbs you tend to get a lot of high frequencies added to the mix...

See... just random stream of consciousness jibberish.

;)


Jez

[EOSPete]

Make a change from my constant stream of jibberish - which I think is something quite different!!!

Cheers
P

[Loki Laufeyiarson]

That kind of makes sence right? I mean: the quality of your sound will be determed by the weakest link in your chain. So if the VM Pro is the cheapest/crappiest thing in your chain, everything else will go down with it. :)