voice through LA-610
 

I just want to say: why didn't i think of this sooner????
on many previous projects, i would take all the voices from interviews into Pro Tools and use plug-ins to compress, de-ess, and EQ them separately, and then output it all again with a limiter on the master fader (a Howard Massey L2007, which i think is really great). really time consuming, but i thought i was getting the best out of each individual voice, male or female.
The last project, i decided to just try running the final voice audio track through my UA LA-610. WOW! so easy! with very little tweaking, it made every voice sound warm, present, and cohesive, all at a uniform level: all with the same settings. I still used the limiter on the master fader, but more subtlety. The LA-610's tube pre, the 'musical' EQ and the fool proof compressor make for wonderful voices!!!!
It sounded great and saved me hours of tedious tweaking.
Again: why didn't i think of that SOONER???

*i do not work for Universal Audio*
(but it works for me!)