is VX-64 VocalStrip enough?

Actually this is one of Sonar's worst plugs IMOH it def not the only plug you will need for vocals.  Look the deesser, the delay and the ADT are all fine but I have read and it may have been on this forum or gearsluts thats the EQ has phase issues when I was told that I went back and had a listen and there was a problem, whether it was the EQ or some other part of the plug=unknown.

Now I have Beyerdynamic DT990 headphones I can here all sorts of problems in the upper frequency range they also help me hear phase issues now too!!!

Peace Ben 

here you go, so who is right?  kinda extreme opinions...

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here you go, so who is right?  kinda extreme opinions...

The best advice is search for it here and see what others say. The best thing to do is use it and see for yourself. No matter what anyone says its your opinion that matters to you.

"Enough" for what?

Let's turn the question around. What do you want to achieve? I you want to SOUNDZ LIKE THE PROZ then your level of comprehension of the craft under discussion is too low for this to be a worthwhile conversation. If you want something else, then let's kick it around.

its a great vocal plugin.  it works well on other stuff too.        the eq is not for doing surgery, it is a broad but musical 4 band.      that being said, i sometimes need to use another eq before it, and a limiter after it.       so, NO, its not it"   but i still like it and use it daily.

The vocal strip is nice - but know, it doesn't have the best of everything.  It is good for effects - deesser, nicely configured echo/delay and the compander is a goode "all-in-one" unit.  But I tend to use other EQs and compressors on vocals.  So no, I don't think it is the higgs bosum of vocal strips.  The backing female vox is a great starting point for that kind of use, tho.

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The Vocal Strip is a good plug, but Nectar by Izotope beats it to death. Of course Nectar will run you $250 bucks so....

Of course neither will fix a bad vocal performance or even tweak the occassional flat note or timing issue. For that you'll need to use V Vocal or Melodyne. V Vocal works great for some, others have issues with it. Melodyne Essential is easier to use and is a great buy at only $60.00.
You can get trial versions of both Nectar and Melodyne, try 'em out and do your own comparison.
Good luck!

+1 on Nectar

I have also had great success with some of the POD Farm plugins for vocals.

Either way, I have used VX-64 maybe twice in my songs. I think the plug is okay, but I have others that simply blow it away.

I think it's great. At first I used it for quick and dirty adjustments to scratch tracks when demoing tracks just to get the ball rolling. I figured I'd replace all that later with dedicated fx and some more complicated routing.

But, now I find I leave the plugin there more often than I thought I would. It's quite good, and the main reason I swap it out now when I do isn't the plugin itself, it's just wanting more control over the signal. Being able to EQ the delay line separate from the dry signal, for example. Or having attack time exposed on the compressor.

If you use it, and decide it is enough, then it is enough. Open it up on a vocal track and rifle through the presets, find one that sounds reasonable, then see if you can make it better. If everything you try doesn't get there, then it isn't enough...

I've been using it quite a bit lately, all in all, I like it. I don't really use the compander or the saturaters though. As someone else already said, I find i use eq's with adjustable Q's more often, but when i do use the on-board I think it sounds very musical, just a db or two at right Hz goes a long way and can really help the vocal to fit. The doubler works well, i like to use it subtly, it helps the vocal to cut the mix a little. I also like the syncable delay, though I've been wondering how it knows the tempo to sync to? I'm not using the metronome tempo in any of these current projects. Anybody know how this works? Now having said all that, I just installed Voxformer tonight though I haven't had a chance to give it go yet. I want to try something else and the price is reasonable. If it's anything like Elephant, I'm really going to like it. But, it doesn't have a built in delay like VX-64.

I use a PreSonus Eureka coming in: it is a decent preamp and will get the EQ and compression in the ballpark (don't want to do anything extreme when recording).  Singer and mic are 95% of the sound--at least for me.