Holy Grail Rap Vocal Chain | Logic Pro Edition

In this tutorial, we'll recreate the famous rap vocal chain used by superstar artists like Big Sean, Drake, Dr. Dre and many more... mixing with stock plugins included in Logic Pro X 🎚🎛
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[@asartheloved]

You just saved me a million hours and so many sleepless nights bro !!!

[@ACelebrationofLIFEMendoza]

Thanks so much Sean!!! always such a joy to learn from you

[@KontrabanMuzic]

You so on point with every video and well spoken with detail. I enjoy everything you put out and tons of knowledge

[@SeanDivine]

Appreciate that Kontra! Glad to help.

[@gbengaakinnola677]

the flow is dope man!!!! nice beat as well.

[@jaycole1900]

Learning so much from you Sean. Thanks as usual

[@Nic-tg2ei]

Hey Sean, this is really useful thanks. I don't rap, but it takes my voice into something I can work with at last.

[@SeanDivine]

🙌

[@punkemogeekrock]

Great! Thanks Sean for doing this!

[@tj-introoutrobed8136]

This is great!! Thank you so much, Sean! 👍🏻

[@amenaza1119]

Thanks for all the tips you give us in your videos! Peace

[@KenFoxmusic]

Sounds Great Brother. I love the NT1 as well

[@lotimadeit]

Really informative one💯 Simple and effective🔥

[@JrumBeats]

Crazy dope flows on the beat Sean, God bless you my friend. Wishing you well!!

[@SeanDivine]

Appreciate that bro!!

[@djtortilla5312]

Here to say the same bro!!

[@buckybarz3779]

You sound good bro. Also thank you for getting straight to it. You got a new sub! 💯

[@hesretnu]

Love this so much!

[@dos_theanonymous_one]

Great intel. Very helpful. Give thanx Sean. Nuff respect.

[@jalenboyette1488]

Peace & love from the 704. Great video, appreciate the knowledge!

[@athomesongwriting]

Logic Kicks so much A$$. It has everything you would ever need. I learned a lot from you. Thanks!

[@saint_alpine]

duden you're a life saver

[@xelent1]

Nice work Sean!

[@t3agray]

never stop!

[@kkaner181]

Thank you for this great content!

[@user-fz2mu9co6g]

Sounds good 💯

[@geoenriquez1879]

Preciate this 👌🏼

[@indirecords7438]

Sean learn so much from you bro. For so long you been guiding. Thank you ever so much. Love from India. ❤️💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@SeanDivine]

Glad to hear that Indi 🙏

[@seymourceikemusic6699]

Great video. Thanks for the useful information. ✌️

[@weirdosquaaad]

Real talk I hope you see this Sean, thanks for all the knowledge man. Your vids are always a good watch

[@SeanDivine]

Glad to help Dax! 🙏

[@weirdosquaaad]

@@SeanDivine my brotha ✊✊✊

[@Mrnuttenbutter]

bars alone got my subscription

[@OfficialBXLLY]

interesting. let’s go. cheers bro

[@the-real-rabizzlethedoctor]

I love utilising the Distortion on the Logic Compressor 😃😉

[@buckybarz3779]

Thank you for this. 💯

[@andre.1860]

Always great job 👍 thanks for that video

[@lotimadeit]

How did you watch a 14 minute video that quick?😂

[@frankeyzzz9068]

I like shadowing your mixes/masters 🔥

[@Tirkey24]

Superb

[@JEtienneMusic]

Hey Sean I can't wait to get my hair done so I can rock my Divine Mixing hats. Also never noticed the slight Mac Miller-esque quality to your rap vocal delivery

[@SeanDivine]

Appreciate that J!

[@stephenhobbsmusic]

AYEEE RODENT1 GANG IN THE HOUSE! BEEN ON THE RODE TEAM SINCE THE NT1A WHEN IT WAS NICKEL AND UGLY

[@HamoLive]

dang this made a difference!

[@peezyy3]

That needle on the stock compressor has the fastest response time I've ever seen on a plugin lol. That 144hz monitor refresh rate is definitely working

[@SeanDivine]

LOL

[@McEw]

Song is fire bro

[@iamthemembrane]

You're a dope rapper man! Nice work! Thanks

[@SeanDivine]

Appreciate that man 🙏

[@BradcruiseUSA]

Yeah m8 great stuff all around thank u 🙏🏽

[@yangadjonne5466]

Respect 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@DonHajicek]

Thank you! Subscribed.

[@dspoet1]

This is dope. Can you do a part for fx like Reverb & Delay

[@wendellboynes8072]

Song is dope !!

[@SeanDivine]

🙏

[@caobone]

Thank you for the knowledge man, got my vocals sounding much better 🗣🎙

[@SeanDivine]

Glad to hear it man!

[@aayjay2782]

I'm in Greensboro Sean. Would love to meet and greet about some engineering and rekording tips. And maybe even book a session with you as well.

[@floyboymusic]

This stock preset sounds goooood! Ill be using it

[@SeanDivine]

Have fun 🙌

[@DreErdna]

Dope!!! U killed that verse too!!! #Spittin

[@SeanDivine]

🙏

[@Jvaldes609]

Man you are amazing!

[@SeanDivine]

Appreciate you J!

[@mikenorrismusica]

Cool-isimo video. Stock plugins in Logic are just fucking fantastic.

[@jacksongroves7667]

Thank you bro love your lyrics all praise to The Most High

[@SeanDivine]

🙏

[@EvangelicalDj]

I appreciate what you do Bro

[@happysinha]

Thanku so much ☺️

[@kendallhoulder5139]

THANKS SEAN !!!!!

[@SeanDivine]

You bet :)

[@dieserbenni4864]

thx

[@raphaelfernandez6818]

Perfect video, perfect timing. Thanks Sean 🙏 just a quick one too, im having a bit of difficulty getting a specific type of vocal to sit right in an otherwise chaotic mix (think NEW MAGIC WAND by Tyler).. the voice is pitched down and very croaky (like a “morning voice” almost). How do you think I should add some body to the voice without it competing with the heavy bass and busy midrange within the synths? The top end of the vocal is really shining through but I’m just having trouble with cutting that body through in the master..

[@SeanDivine]

Thanks! Depends on the instrumental mix. I'd start by turning down the synth or EQing out the mids interfering with the vocal... or sidechain it :)

[@Darksagan]

Damn sounds nice.

[@47Libra]

Nice

[@RomeoRuizMusic]

Hey Sean. Thanks so much. I’m new to learning mixing and am a new subscriber here. I appreciate the time you put into the videos. I’m wondering, and I know this may be a newbie question , but can you get similar results with some of the Waves plugins like the Q10 for eq and some of the CLA compressors ? Thanks so much. I have a Mac with older versions of the waves diamond bundle that was given to me running Cubase 6.5 as a gift so I’m trying to really optimize what was given to me. Really appreciate it a lot.

[@PRODBY24X7]

I would say yes just find the alternatives

[@candormind3159]

Sounds like a nice song

[@SeanDivine]

Thanks!

[@kingzthevessel7281]

Great video.

[@SeanDivine]

Thanks!

[@gnarlyrides]

Great vocal chain. Thanks for this. What‘s on the bus 2?

[@timstrel1]

Nice verse my man!!!!

[@SeanDivine]

Thanks man!

[@jakestoneshow]

I had a Rode NT1 ! For my vocals I didn't like it and I had to do a lot of EQ to get it balanced. So, I tried a different pair of pants on and I got a Neumann TLM 103 and it's been a game changer for my vocal tone/ range.

[@WestSideChris805]

I'm in the exact same boat with you 😂 Exactly like this.

[@SeanDivine]

Nice! I'm a bit surprised you prefer the tone of the 103 if you didn't like the NT1. The 103 is very top heavy and has a whistle in the sibilance, in my experience :) Whatever works though, every voice / mic combo works differently!

[@jakestoneshow]

@@SeanDivine i did notice it was a little top heavy so i flipped it upside down and threw it an PF8 globe thingy and so far im reeealy liking the tone. I had a lot of overly low bass issues with the RODE - I still have it though

[@SonOfGilo]

That reaction at 10:73 after flipping the bypass after adjusting the EQ + Drive LOL. Looked surprised yourself lmao...

[@j-new6278]

Dude nice job, good information. Nice flow too. Think I heard Charlotte an MB on that... I'm over in MB. You doing shows? I'll come out

[@SeanDivine]

Thanks J! Hopefully at some point!

[@SharpChaotic1]

Do you do mixing services for pay if I want a specific sound

[@MixingInActionStudios]

Can you do a studio one version?

[@brandonhenry8271]

Gratitude mista

[@deadlycontent503]

need this for waves or a new preset pack

[@byronmarshall7398]

If I used the Antares Mic Mod, instead of doing the pre-process of the EQ at the beginning of the chain, will it give me a similar result?

[@SonOfGilo]

Whats the proper way to get several songs (EP/Album) to all match volume levels in preparation to drop a project for streaming.

[@ThinIce365]

It's interesting to me that you have an attack of 0 for the compressor. I'm still learning about mixing, but I've normally only seen such a fast attack used with parallel compression. My understanding is that if the attack is too quick you lose some of the transients, but maybe you can tell me more about your decision making. Appreciate you bro

[@SeanDivine]

It depends on the context of the vocal. Generally speaking, in tracking I’d use a slower attack. Here with a softer opto comp in the mix stage, the fast attack will work to tame some of the sharp transients. I’m also doing a more noticable gain reduction for effect. The opto is usually used more subtle in the analog realm :)

[@lesasduzouglou8412]

I really appreciate your videos sir but I'm in Africa and I don't speak English so for a French speaker how to do it? for your Masterclasses. I really want to learn you are the ideal person

[@davidsmarttmusic3744]

💪🏿

[@Starkillers]

This was a fun back-to-the-basics tutorial if you owned a 1073 what would you use to get the saturation from logic's version vs say the UAD version ?

[@SeanDivine]

For the logic version, you get the saturation with the output drive. On the UAD, there's modeling happening under the hood and also depending on where you set the preamp gain.

[@lequidbit9385]

Ive been using this the last couple days and it works really well. Can you give more details on the pre optimizing process? Maybe an example of you doing it?

[@SeanDivine]

I'll see what I can do!

[@lequidbit9385]

@@SeanDivine Thank you.... These videos are gems. Appreciate you

[@pharaohonthetrack2008]

Can you do an advance industry Migos x lil baby x Future style vocal chain mix with only waves plugins?

[@BZDthemc]

Did you have a plugin on bus 2 , just curious what the intention of sending bus 1 to bus 2? Love your content been following for years and you've made the learning process much easier. Thanks Sean!

[@SeanDivine]

Glad to hear it’s been helpful 🙏 bus 2 is a very small plate reverb, just to add a little space!

[@GloveBunniesVideos]

Great video! Really helps to have these listed out. How different would a pop vocal chain be?

[@SeanDivine]

Not that much different in terms of overall tone / approach. The core of most vocal chains aren't genre specific... compression style, effects processing are where the approach changes the most in my experience!

[@GloveBunniesVideos]

@@SeanDivine Thanks!

Hello, I have a question, how do you compress the voice so that it looks flattened?

[@SeanDivine]

That's the result of tracking with compression. The idea is to control the dynamics, being careful not to "flatten" them too much :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmixYp6qmZuqkM0

[@DarkDekuVigilante]

what did he have on bus 2 that he was sending to the vocal chain?

[@SeanDivine]

A small plate reverb :)

[@outdatedproductions6703]

Should I record my vocals with this vocal chain or no?

[@royalinvasionproductionstv6370]

So usually I put a neve preamp plugin on my USB mic input in Reaper(FrontDAW), if I also use a eq/preamp like the one show here, I can remove the other as that would probably be too much saturation right?

[@SeanDivine]

No rules. Whatever sounds best but yes, 2 saturated neve pres would be a bit much for my taste.

[@akablenzy]

Thanks bro! One question, whats in bus at the end of the chain?

[@SeanDivine]

Just a light reverb (space designer) to add some space!

[@ankeviousoliver4472]

Imo id love to see your distance/mic placement and if you have a chain for recording. The sound is really clean.

[@SeanDivine]

Thanks! Recorded the vocal at the computer, just as you see me in this video (with an NT1 mic and light compression). This video may help - kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHKnaayGeJelgZo

[@ankeviousoliver4472]

@@SeanDivine oh yeah that was very helpful. Ty

[@larrytan73]

why do alot of studios use a hardware pultec and a 1173 instead of the software.. is there a difference!? thanks!

[@SeanDivine]

Generally, it’s the tubetech / 1176 and 1073 :) there is a difference between hardware and software but it’s become more subtle. Just depends on what you’re going for!

[@beatdivisionbyjorsidesign3727]

At 12:43 a send to bus 2 appears, is that the reverb we hear?

[@SeanDivine]

Yes, it's a 1.0 sec plate reverb :)

[@MrRezikee]

Beat?

[@pradapasco4004]

whats on bus 2? thx

[@SeanDivine]

Very small reverb (plate in Space Designer)

[@redtyga10.o39]

Yssir

[@OSdahl]

What mac do you own?

[@SeanDivine]

Macbook Pro 14 Inch kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZ3RkJSeg697rtE

[@officialtonymoncanna6475]

Where would I put a noise gate?

[@SeanDivine]

First!

[@l_ord9]

Great in-depth tutorial. Quick and easy to grasp. Thank you. Also there was a bus send you were adjusting. What was that doing?

[@SeanDivine]

It’s a very small plate reverb

[@l_ord9]

@@SeanDivine Thank you Sir.

[@ProducerRyan]

Clutch

[@AZANlA]

the vocal sound like that pop rapper jack Harlow

[@icanja]

What is the mic?

[@SeanDivine]

NT1

[@pacobestsofar8819]

Whats up Sean just wanted to shoot you a message reguarding some mixing and mastering just wondering if you provide your services? Would love to get some work done by you! Hope to hear from you soon!

[@SeanDivine]

bit.ly/divine-mixing-mastering

[@xyadxyad1168]

Hey I noticed at the very end you sent Bus 1 to Bus 2 but didn’t show the effects on that channel. Was that just a bit of reverb or some other effect?

[@SeanDivine]

Yep, light reverb (.5 sec plate) just to give it some space!

[@xyadxyad1168]

@@SeanDivine Thanks, great video as usual

[@CSkibaRun]

Hey Sean. What was on Bus 2?

[@SeanDivine]

Space Designer (very small plate reverb)

[@pakk10_]

336 ❗️

[@-NOVA-2023]

There’s always something missing in my stock plugging 😢 I don’t have the DEsesser 2 Also on my compressor my red light isn’t flashing like yours

[@SeanDivine]

Backup your system and update Logic from the App Store :)