Thunderbuss Vocals

Free Vocal Bus.
Even It Out. Keep It Out Front.

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Thunderbuss Vocals

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Even It Out. Take the Edge Off.

One bus, three moves, a vocal that sits out front.

Thunderbuss Vocals runs a fast bus compressor to even the performance out, Smooth to gently dip harsh high-frequency peaks without a full de-esser control set, and Air for a silky 12kHz shelf with soft saturation baked into just the boosted top end. A brickwall limiter keeps it in line behind all of it.

This is the simple vocal bus tool - for a full vocal strip with de-essing and doubling, see Sugar Engine and Voice Pilot.

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Watch the Limiter Hold the Line.

Switch the meter to VU and the needle reads output peak against the limiter's ceiling. Flip to GR and watch the compressor even out the performance instead.

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Smooth, Not a Full De-Esser

One Knob Takes the Edge Off Harsh Peaks.

Smooth is a gentle dynamic dip on harsh high-frequency peaks - not a sibilance-targeting de-esser with its own frequency and range controls, just one knob that ducks the harshness when it shows up. The compressor ahead of it runs a faster attack with the sidechain high-passed at 150 Hz to even the performance out.

Threshold - fast vocal bus compression, SC high-pass fixed at 150 Hz
Smooth - dynamic HF dip on harsh peaks, 0-100%
Air - 12 kHz shelf with soft saturation, 0-6 dB

Thunderbuss Vocals Input, Threshold, Smooth, Air and Limiter knobs

Thunderbuss Vocals VU meters and Meter switch

Silky, Not Brittle

Air That Doesn't Turn Harsh.

Air runs a high shelf at 12kHz, but only the boosted top-end content passes through a gentle saturation stage before mixing back in - so pushing it adds silky air instead of brightening and hardening the whole vocal. Built to keep the lead or backing vocal out front without fighting the mix for it.