Yeah, there's different compressors. But I'm betting it's my singing, because I looked at the wave in V-vocal and some parts looked like I was gargling... my voice is recovering though from all the allergy and chest infection crud so I should be able to recut very soon.

Had a very cool day today. Last night the female vocalist, Julianna, emailed me her vocals for a western waltz. I played it and was blown away by her quality but the rendition sounded too punchy. I asked her about it and she said she wasn't used to singing that high (key was D). We went back and forth and she suggested transposing to E. I did, and then realized not only was that the better key for the song, but I had the wrong root (A instead of D) in the original! I rescored in E, correcting the goofs, and shot her back a rough result. She came back with clear, dead-on vocals that would make Emmylou Harris hang her head in shame. Ok, maybe not... but Julianna is awesome! When I get some backing cowboy-style vocals on this I've got dynamite.