How It Was Recorded

Gear · compressor

dbx 166

Records it appears on · 1

  • The Real Thing

    Faith No More · Album, 1989

    • Lead vocal · Input chainVerifiedCompressed Patton's vocal on the way to tape, using one side as a compressor and feeding it back through the other side as a limiter.
    • Lead vocal · Mix effectsVerifiedUsed again on Patton's vocal during mixing.

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Universal Audio dbx 160 Compressor / Limiter

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Waves dbx 160 Compressor / Limiter

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Models the dbx 160, an earlier relative. It gives the dbx style of compression, not this unit.

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