5 Tips for Better Vocals

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[@jordanwilliams7044]

What I have learnt is that if a vocal is recorded correctly, sang close to perfection and tone appropriate you won’t struggle to mix it. You barely shave to tune it, compress or eq apart from maybe adding flavour, colour o tonal adjustment

[@sageaudio]

Recording is definitely a big (if not the biggest) part! And what's great is that a decent interface and condenser mic are all you need (also, something to absorb reflections).

[@Elosbyuri]

One key method to use in everything you said, in order to use it effectively, all of this can be changed based on taste ex. over using southe 2 9:30 , it might actually be nice to some ears and some not so it comes back to the taste of the engineer\artist\producer, or the direction of the feeling you want to present in your mix.

[@watben]

Thank for the tips

[@smrecord231]

Thank you 🙏🏽 Sir

[@SiegelBantuBear]

Shukran 🙏🏼👍🏼

[@teddyboamah]

Gems

[@iamalxne]

the term you were looking for when you said "standardrouting" is "signal flow" we use it alot in the AV world

[@iamalxne]

its how the flow of electricity or signal gets processed

[@sageaudio]

Thanks! But that's not what I'm referring to.

[@iamalxne]

@@sageaudio what were you referring to ?

[@sageaudio]

@@iamalxne "Standard Routing" is just the name I'm giving this type of chain/signal flow. Signal flow, as you said, is the flow of electricity (or information in a digital system), so I'm talking about a specific signal flow that starts with subtractive EQ, de-essing, etc., to affect the signal as cleanly and straightforwardly as possible.

[@steamer2k319]

​@@sageaudio I would've gone with "[my] standard signal chain". A 'route' sounds like we're choosing which set of speakers to send the signal to. Like we're going to route it to something 'over there'. E.g., front-of-house mains vs. various monitors, etc.

[@lucienroudet1476]

Niceee

[@prodkajro]

🐐

[@joelgerlach9406]

What then is a better way than using soothe 2 with the vocal sidechained? Are there any other plugins you can recommend, especially if you record over a beat?

[@kristianmarschewski1590]

do you need to sidechain at all? or do you saw it in a tutorial video? most of the time, we dont need stuff like this. and in all the other cases a simple multibandcompressor or a dynamic eq will do the job

[@blinkwater]

pro mb

[@ericb-amuur9897]

Can we see your initial tracking chain?

[@sageaudio]

I didn't track this session unfortunately, so I'm not sure what the chain was.

[@DiamondBlade]

you shouldn't use de esser before the compression, you should do it after comp/comp+eq. this way your vocal will be coherent and won't be eaten and butchered.

[@Elosbyuri]

Doesnt really matter, each case has its features that you can or cannot do this, myself i use narrow bells to attenuate sibilance before i compress and de-ess after the compressor, just so i have more control on what gets compressed, you can also use dynamicEQ to give that highs a bright feeling and then shelf it down before compressing then attend to lows after the compression and this is really complicated on practice, but it gives a certain feel to it.

[@letrichiebe]

2:19

[@rayvontebrightman4190]

It sounded like Soothe 2 helped tho

[@letrichiebe]

0:15

[@Six2Nine]

the unbalanced vocals sound more natural to me. balanced is a bit thin. i think it's to much of taking away the male character of this voice. Would keep this frequency Band. maybe compress it a bit.