[BeautifulBurnout]

Originally Posted by viddy

again, I think it's caused by the person behind the console. A good engineer knows the right mics, the right micing techniques, the right mic preamps, the right compressors/limitors to use, the right processing and effects to use to get a good, full-bodied sound. On that note, you can use as many plugins as you want, but that is no substitute whatsoever for getting the sound right before it even hits the a/d converters on the way into Pro Tools. Sometimes they go as far as running the incoming sound through a tape recorder while they record into the computer, to truely get an analog sound.

Or maybe it could also be caused by the singers having thin, flat voices? I've noticed it too. Maybe it is just a "fashion" to have gutless vocals in things these days.