The DBX 286s - Should every podcaster own one?

[bigsix]

Thank you very much!!!

[AlBurr]

Microphone connects to the DBX Via XLR.... Line out from DBX into the mixer

Make sure you get a balanced TRS cable for the connection from the DBX to the mixer. I almost made the noob mistake of buy a guitar cable...hey it looked the same to me

[bigsix]

Thanks Alburr, all of my cables are balanced.

[chrisnitzel]

I use a dbx 166XL. This compressors been great. Use one channel for main vocal mic along with the noise gate. The second channel I use for secondary mic when a guest is in the studio. But now the second channel is normally hooked to the computer audio for things like music and skype calls. That was a problem before, the audio was constantly jumping around, it definitely smoothed things out. Another podcast where I'm co-host, they normally want people to mute their mic if they are not talking. But using the noise gate I don't have too.

Thanks for the post! I have 2 Skype machines and I am trying to clean up the audio from them going into my mix. This sounds like what I need.