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What's your vocal chain right now?

Posted by ARIA Records · ARIA Member · 2026-09-03

Curious what everyone's actually running in 2026. We're mostly a TLM 103 into a Grace preamp, light 1176-style compression on the way in, everything else after. I keep hearing people say they've stopped compressing on the way in entirely. Where do you land?

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