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Strident Linear
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My advice would be to work with what you have. You're looking for something that doesn't exist. Anything that de-emphasizes the "boxy" region, as you put it, will have a scooped midrange. By nature, a scooped midrange means the highs and lows will sound exaggerated in relation. But then you say you don't want that.
So you have to decide what you can live with, and then use something like
dynamic EQ to get you the rest of the way.
Personally, I think the boxiness should be the easiest thing to EQ out, so you could start with some of these other options they've used in other studios, and EQ out what you don't like. Or you could go the other way with something like the TLM 102 and work the EQ (or dynamic EQ) to tame some of the proximity effect and sibilance you're not liking (Keeping mind, by the way, that doing that might bring out some boxiness).
Yeah maybe because of lack of knowlegde something what I say sounds a little bit out of logic 😁 in case I am recording myself too I know for example that I really dont like how my voice sounds with U87 and I much more prefer TLM102 over myself. 103 sounds good too, but a little bit too harsh for my sibilances. SM7B sounds too dull on me too. I know I can use saturators, mb comp, parallel comp, even splitting vocals to 3 auxes low/mid/high and treat everything different and etc. but when vocal already sounds good with suitable mic, there is much more less to do in post production. Also I understand that every voice is different but in my case and I have for now two later maybe more artists with low voices, harshness/boxyness in them and looking for some options that mostly should work on this kind of vocals
