How To Get 'That' Vocal Sound

[@Nedvio]

Zach, as always quality content and quality knowledge. Thank you! Amazing music! 🎧

[@boyoterry154]

Mate, your tutorials are so well done. Excellent! Keep going!

[@ozalidmusic]

Love it! Full control over the sound itself… will test it out in the upcoming productions for sure 🙏🏼

[@Gedagnors]

By the way, I use automation line that activates De-Esser/Dynamic EQ/Compressor ONLY where the sibilance appears. And I use the same INVERTED automation line as a reverb send in order to send vocal without sibilances to the reverb channel. It takes some time, but the result is very clean.

[@Notacet]

At first I thougt you’re missing the fact that many de-essers have a very targeted sidechain filters, but as you pointed out Pro-MB has it too. Damn! might be time to take de-esser out of my chain! Some de-essers offer more intelligent sibilant detection though. Eiosis for example. It basically reacts to high frequencies only when there are no low frequencies (body). That can’t be replicated with pro-MB.

[@mattiateora2392]

Thanks for the gems you always bring to your videos!! The track is 🔥

[@arziva1615]

please do more saturation videos on key elements in the mix, because your bass saturation video was gold ! :)

[@motry]

Thats amazing, thanks for that one! Much love from Germany! 🤗 Btw I love that you blurr the tipps and uncover it in progression, that keeps the motivation up for watching, nice retention strategy 🤩Pleases my heart for marketing!

[@antoineschillemans]

BIG Z YOU BEAST GREETZ FROM AMSTERDAM

[@grichu]

Nice track!!

[@ranradd]

Great info on using the compressor. Love the track. On spotify yet?

[@HennyBoyZoo]

When creating a Side Chain Low Frequency using the Free Button, are you applying this to both instances Of Eq Bands or just the primary First one you created? Il gives this a shot next time I'm going to apply a Desser, always love experimenting so this will sit well in my arsenal! Keep up the Great Content Big Z, been watching you for the past 3 years now, you've been a lot of help to me and others! Thank You!

[@rolandgerard6064]

Intructions and the track are awesome. Thanks.

[@jamztoxi]

This is awesome knowledge

[@xrabbz2010]

I usually do it with a dynamic band in pro q 3. Its fast, easy and gives great results. I'll definitely try this method out though

[@ettorel]

Man, that track has a soul!!

[@martijn_thatsme]

Just what I was looking for. I don't like the sound of most de-esser plugins. They are too aggressive and make the ss's sound artificial. Thanks for another inspiring video.

[@andivax]

Good point. But nothing compares with Spectral deessers. Especially with Slavic languages which have different sibilants.

[@MaxHertz-MHz]

been using MB all this time, feels good 😁

[@mdvmusic]

you could also use fabfilter pro q3, you can't adjust the compressor as well as with the multi band compressor but it should work too

[@y.a.267]

Naaaaahhhh that’s just dynamically reducing those frequencies that’s it

[@coen1303]

Sickkkk, dope track too dude

[@2cthetruth]

Maybe next video will be “how to get that vocal sound.” Then the next, “that vocal sound.” The next “how to get that vocal sound to sound like a great vocal.” Then, the next day, “making that great vocal sound covered thoroughly on thousands of other you tube videos.” Then, the following video, achieving great vocals.”

[@martijn_thatsme]

As long as there's room for improvement I don't mind another video on vocals. Big Z never disappoints.

[@2cthetruth]

What is improvement on a subject that can’t be improved upon? There is a point of diminishing returns. Just record with a GREAT vocalist and some good gear and your set.

[@OhItsNoctu]

​@@2cthetruth yeah lol just record with a great vocalist cause those don't need mixing, they just come with radio ready, pre-deessed voices. You're full of shit.

[@2cthetruth]

Never said that you little mushroom head. What you do need to do should be very little if it’s recorded right. A good recording chain can get your vocals sitting pretty good to begin with. Go back to mamas basement with this guy and practice your reach around technique.

[@y.a.267]

@@2cthetruthbruh you’re saying a good recording doesn’t need much yeah that’s true. But that’s only true if everything else is given already like a professional microphone, pre amps etc and much more. If I just use a beginner mic and no acoustics etc there can be the best singer on the world it won’t change much cause I have to mix a lot to get a good sound. Yeah if you have good equipment a well placed mic and good acoustics AAAND a good singer you don’t need much mixing but how many people have that ? Not that much people right ?

[@devinkei1469]

At 4:59 what you can also do if your dser isn't catching the harsh s or t sounds is to duplicate your vocal track, or send your vocal to a "send" or "aux" channel and purposely accentuate those harsh frequency zones by boosting them with an eq and sidechain your real vocal to that duplicated track. Just make sure you turn that channel into a "ghost channel" so no audio is coming out of it. You're just using it to trigger your dser.

[@y.a.267]

Good idea but can sound a little bit unnatural or ?

[@devinkei1469]

​@y.a.267 yeah it can if overdone. I only do this when the dser or multiband compressor/dynamic eq isn't reacting the way i want it to. It's also a good way to trigger soothe2 the way you want it to be triggered.

[@samsam2235]

Brother alwas making my life easier with his tutorials.

[@mixingmadesimple]

sick.

[@ScouseHouseClassics]

Will give this a whirl. I have been using Triple D

[@brianmartin7710]

I like your channel and your producing skills are really incredible. Thanx a lot. But I dont think that dresser are a ripp off. And many famous mixer still use them. Not just because they are used to it. IMO sometime classic "Wideband" de-esser sounds better and more natural then a multi band de-esser. On the waves you can swich to wideband. I often have the feeling that band separated de-esing sounds a little bit strange. But anyway, using a Multiband Comp like the MB-Pro is a good choice for many cases.

[@aaronbazil]

I love to use it for sidechain as well

[@piseyrio_gaming8531]

You always have a great 🎉 sharing ❤❤❤ thank 🎉

[@franbert6218]

It’s sounds so much better. How about using a dynamic EQ?

[@y.a.267]

Won’t do the job properly cause most EQs don’t have that much control. If you have a multiband try it out cause every multiband can do this

[@walidjaziriofficial]

i like that red mic in your left hand bro. what brand it is bro?

[@Get_to_the_Point]

On the rare occasion that I have an S that is out of control, I just lower the volume in automation (just at the S because its always at the beginning or end of a word). It sounds good to me. Am I doing something wrong ? Newb here.

[@Swiftopher755]

Nothing wrong there!

[@Get_to_the_Point]

@@Swiftopher755 Thank you Chris !

[@DominicSJarrett]

Nothing wrong at all. However, sibilance is really quiet but sounds loud to our ears. So any compression you do will also increase the sibilance. So you may end up needing to either do more automation or add something like a desser or multiband comp after the compression in the chain.

[@Get_to_the_Point]

@@DominicSJarrett Thank you for the warning. I didn't know that.

[@Nicenigel14]

The vocals in this video sound like the guy that voices Posidon in Epic the Musical 🔱

[@d0grent]

what do you think of using soothe2 to de-ess?

[@MORIAH_B]

What headphones are you using?

[@GetSongsDone]

Also, you independantly turn sibilants down in Melodyne

[@Gedagnors]

Thank you so much!!!

[@jamztoxi]

Nice one

[@phonkaholicc]

We have the old way, the new way but what about the ocky way?

[@oldtimer666]

What about soothe 2? I have been thinking a lot about investing in soothe 2 for dessing

[@yeezythabest]

That's a lot of money just for deessing..

[@Swiftopher755]

It's really good for sidechaining aswell, like kick and bass etc

[@oldtimer666]

@@yeezythabest Bro but the clarity you get from it is not even close to any desser in the market also its a multifunctional tool can be used on a lot of things

[@Pattarns_Music]

@@oldtimer666 Soothe2 is absolutely the shit. Best de-esser, I've tried several. Also the way it can turn harsh synths into pleasing ones is unmatched. Same for smoothing highhats etc. And it just works even if the notes played are all over the octaves without manually setting and automating a ton of EQ-cuts. Getting it on black friday is def worth it. Only downside is the Ilok.

[@oldtimer666]

@@Pattarns_Music Hope it goes down in price in black friday eagerly waiting

[@JanBaars]

u look good, dude.

[@EdokLock]

Why are you not matching the gain tho ? How can our hears hear the difference if the volume is different 😅

[@meryll7701]

noice

[@walidjaziriofficial]

great tutorial bro but hope Waves will not complain you hhhhhh

[@lukasroman3641]

Is it an AI vocal ?

[@rumariomusic]

You should generally not use De Esser or Multiband Compressor. It is much better to do it manually. I usually don't need more than 3-4 minutes per track in Reaper.

[@marknesium]

manually? explain.

[@nunu9849]

​@@marknesiumYou need to automate volume of specific words

[@2cthetruth]

You should just have a great singer singing a great song and you should be set. Don’t complicate a simple process princess.

[@DominicSJarrett]

Neither is "better" or "worse". It's just down to both personal preference and time efficiency. I use multiband compression on vocals pretty much all of the time. So it's much more efficient to just use the same multiband compressor for additional dessing since I'll already have that multiband comp anyway.

[@rumariomusic]

​@@DominicSJarrettOf course, it always depends on the quality you expect. I always attach great importance to the quality of the vocals. Then you can invest a few minutes in it, because the result is simply better

[@dakr-q2g]

for the one readiong, jesus loves you, and will save you if you repent and turn to him

[@ronmoes42]

De-esser = multiband compressor = dynamic EQ plugin it's all the same :P

[@2cthetruth]

It’s all redundant bullshit with a different name.

[@y.a.267]

Dynamic EQ is not multiband compressing, with multiband you’re compressing specific frequencies but with dynamic EQ you’re just turning them down dynamically.

[@MartinQuerns]

De-esser still sound better

[@25kmMusic]

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