Mon Aug 10, 2020 3:26 am
As Charles pointed out, less is more.
It's rare that a track is so bad you need that much processing.
Try doing the NR first and get as much of the hum, noise and such out as you can there. You can do compression/limiting in the channel dynamics setting, no need for soft-clipping. For De-hum I would drop the effect on the clip(s) and do it there, probably the noise reduction too.
If you're having problems with sibilance, try moving a bit further away from the mic, or turn it so that it's at an angle to your mouth instead of perpendicular.
EQ and Dynamics are built into the mixer, try those before you add third party effects, the built in ones are pretty good. That way they won't take up any of your 6 free slots.
Stereo fixer? Is your vocal track not mono? I'd suggest doing it in mono, and you can use the mixer so it plays back across L/R with a phantom center. Stereo manipulation is more for stereo tracks that are out of whack and need some adjustment. You shouldn't be recording your voice in stereo. If you have a stereo mic, choose either the L or R channel and put it on a mono track instead.
If you're just playing around and learning, try adding the effects to the clip instead of the mixer track, you can add as many as you want there.
Hope this helps.
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