Do THIS To Give Your Vocals More Presence

[@HomeStudioCorner]

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[@LonelyStarOfficial]

Bro why is the gain so overboosted

[@matthewjohnson0627]

“Save to playlist > Sound Mixing”. Just like almost every video you put out Joe. Thank you so much!

[@carmvecchio]

Great explanation of PRESENCE. Your use of dynamic EQ is da bomb.

[@intrick]

Joe, this is a really focused, practical and easily absorbed video that directly helps people address what I think is the one thing that makes home recordings sound “homely”. I am well on the way to getting pro sounding vocals at home ( thanks to you and a few others who post great content). I appreciate you!

[@stevencourtney6440]

Joe- you are a master teacher! Thank you.

[@BenStaniland]

you are just genius. no bullshit just straight education! just what people (like me) need when they’re like a deer in the headlights 👏🏻

[@scottzartman]

I like this. Very simple and to the point. I find myself many times not being able to get the vocals to sit on top of everything else. Thanks Joe!

[@peterelfman]

Excellent, and timely, as always.

[@DrProgNerd]

I love dynamic eq....it's my go-to for a lot of problem-solving. I use FabFilter Pro MB to de-ess. I never thought about using dynamic eq to de-ess. It's so obvious, I don't know how I missed it. Lol !!! Thanks, Joe. BTW: I'm still working through the bonus mixing material in your Home Mixing course. I'm having a blast and getting my reps in. Money well-spent. Cheers, sir.

[@raymondspagnuolo8222]

Another really useful video!!!

[@christinathomastaylor]

Great video thanks

[@dannyharpermusic]

Thanks Joe!

[@P.A9165]

useful advices,THX !

[@GlennDawson-fb5bm]

Thanks Joe

[@MikeFromDownUnder]

Thanks for sharing this! 👍

[@STORMMusic-co7jl]

Very good tutorial! Thanks!

[@bengrimshaw4811]

Brilliant video. Love your delivery and how everything you show us understandable and do-able! Much appreciated 👍

[@trippsmithmusic]

Informative and helpful as always, Joe! Thanks ✌🏼

[@IC3RTIF1EDI]

Love the new camera angle

[@jimdandy5808]

Thank you. Ive wanted to learn this stuff for years and had no idea where to start. Ive learned so much from this channel. This helped very much. Thx again.

[@ronallen2458]

Camera angle - great, Lighting… not so much. Content - Stellar.

[@PabloSorribes]

I still get surprised at how well you can explain stuff like this, and you also gave me a few ideas to try out. Great video, thanks for sharing your process and your tips!

[@deeskushun]

thanks joe,

[@reyescisneros1785]

This helped a lot! Thank you.

[@Aptmusicuk]

Really interesting this thanks a great help for my vocal mixing

[@stanleyassor3172]

nice thanks Joe

[@nashse7en]

In good Mics it's called the "presence" frequency but in 50$ MICs is called the dentist drill frequency of death. 🤣

[@michaeltablet8577]

Thank you so very much!

[@joncwolf5666]

Thank you!

[@kermasingh9002]

Great camera angle

[@kyronnewbury]

Have we heard it a million times? Yes. Is it a great reminder? Yes.

[@brianpylant4617]

Would love to hear the whole song!

[@Mongoosh]

After i don't know how many years. My presonus audiobox is failing. Mic imput 3 is a goner, my next soundcard is going to be a motu 824 already bought a shit load of preamps to go with But that is not why i was here. Because of the new sound card i was thinking about presonus and overal it was a good experience (if you forget the driver and loosing vsl options, aldo the new driver is good not for this soundcard) This youtube channel and studio one are things I'm so happy having discovered. So many good tips. you have given. And studio one. If you look at tools like pipeline. I've never had outboard gear work with this mutch ease. but i digress i just wanted to say thank you in general

[@jttech44]

After all this, you can also access tremendous mojo, especially for, um, "dynamic" vocals, with a multiband compressor. Also, I really appreciate your sober, honest take on signal chain. Far far too many "just do it this way" takes out there, and it does people a disservice to give them a one-size-fits-all idea just because it's easier to explain. Personally, I find myself running pre and post compression alot of the time, usually one of the more "colorful" compressors first, and maybe touching -3db max on the loudest parts, mostly at 0db, then the rest of the processing, then usually a multiband for vocals/guitars to help out the tonal changes that come with dynamics if they need it. Multiband is also really helpful on a mix bus, sometime side chained, so you can do things like make a nice hole for a guitar to sit in while it does something cool. Those kinds of things would have been done by hand in the past, but you can automate things a bit that way. You can do some really fun things with series/parallel compression, might make for a good video =]

[@jmasno5]

Joe, I would definitely use the clip gain feature built into studio one for "s" and hard consonants. It takes more time, but the results are phenomenal.

[@matthewjoshua0025]

The new camera angle is nice

[@RobbyBensoneo]

thank you, thank you, thank you!

[@mikimhs]

Question for soundman estimates for a live performance with monitors When a guitar player arrives with an acoustic guitar that has a pickup to connect to a DI box And the guitar also has volume and EQ buttons What is the right thing to ask the guitar player? Will all the buttons be on the middle? Volume button at 50%? Will the IQ buttons be flat? One of my concerns is that after I have stabilized GAIN, the guitar player may during a performance change the position of the buttons (for reasons of his own) without me having control over it, but this will affect the color of the sound, and even cause feedback Thanks Miki

[@stormsofevermore]

Thank you, Joe for all of your videos and the work you put in over the last 12 years. I am finally to the point to release my first single and music video, "Proud American" and you were a big part of that. My sincerest thanks and gratitude for your teachings and guidance throughout these last 12 years of my life. You have been very helpful, inspirational and you are amazing person. Thank you for always being there for me.

[@jamesbrethauer6772]

Have appreciated your content over the last few years. The new camera angle is pretty and artistic but distracting. Vision is naturally attracted to light sources and competition for attention should be diminished where possible. Keep up the good work

[@mark12.31]

Lots of ways to do it, as you said. I recently heard someone suggest inserting a HPF on the vocal first to get rid of the low junk, then compress, then EQ. His reasoning was that the compressor might unnecessarily compress if there was a plosive on the low end and it would 'mess up' the compression in that case. But, it's still a case by case basis...if recorded properly ("right at he source") then hopefully there wouldn't be any plosives to cause any issues. I guess.

[@jttech44]

That's a simple way to do it, HPF first, then the rest of everything. There are, however, lots of options in terms of compressors now, and many can be "keyed" to not pay attention to low frequencies, which saves you a whole plugin slot and lets you deal with it all at once. Workflow wise, that can be better, fewer things to click and adjust. The other option is to use an analogue pre that has a HPF built in, and pass that into your interface. Usually that's also done with nice pre's. I have a buddy who has a really nice avalon console he uses for that, 8 channels, so, full drums is possible, really nice overall but spendyyyyy, and, not really necessary.

[@DavidMaurand]

my work is choirs fighting violins and pipe organ mixture stops for high frequencies - I add 's' otherwise you'd hear nothing. (vowels, as they say, carry the tune, consonants provide the meaning.)

[@PharaohLawLess1]

I have the Maag EQ2 that gives a nice air and lift which I need after I record vocals with my Avalon vt737sp

[@zwiff2459]

nice tutorial!! :) whats the name of the song? really like it!

[@HomeStudioCorner]

Listen by Joe Gilder

[@jean-simonlemire9193]

bro stay with five finger death punch you were so good in bad company

[@soumyadeepnathbarbhuiyan4945]

Me in my early twenties: "Joe, what's that piece of equipment behind you?" Me in my early thirties: "Joe, what's that gorgeous-looking watch you're wearing?"

[@HomeStudioCorner]

😂 cheap casio from amazon

[@GeorgeAmodei21]

Yeah but your Dynamic is on 15+K ? where DeSr usually is lower to Catch the "Ca..", "KA's", "Taa" & "S". Just put another BEll & sweep to find thosae problematic Issues then Tunrn them into DYNAMIC Processing or simply put another Plug-In below your EQ for DeEssing. They all work :)

[@questyeong]

Hi Joe, do you adopt the similar approach for bgv, typically for pop a cappella arrangement?

[@danielpopa718]

i have to take into account the raw track and switch the order of those 3 accordingly and then see how it sits in the mix? im curious. and oearning at the same time

[@michaelbonesmusic]

Might be a basic question but can you explain more about de-esser and EQ, to me I use EQ to help with sibilance is a de-esser somehow different than EQ?

[@WhatDoesEvilMean]

How do you deal with a kind of zzzzzing sorta thing on the vocals? It’s super subtle, but I can hear it. It’s just at the edge of an electronic kinda sound? It’s not distortion. It’s just this slight zzzzinging here and there.

[@KINGxDAVID94]

Joe eq an sm7b for spoken word please

[@guitarz99]

I always high pass first , no point in compressing low end you dont need messing up the high end compression, 2K is painful , you learn this doing live sound on a large system.

[@sepperoxx]

guilty of the plug-ins, Giuseppe Coppola

[@Borderbeach]

Any tips on EQing and compressing with SM7B? It feels pretty hard to find the perfect balance for it.

[@Durkhead]

Boost at around 3k and then widen the q till it fills in and sounds right

[@paulgrant8665]

The raw vocal example looks like it is clipping. Am I missing something? It also sounds like it is distorted

[@HomeStudioCorner]

I get this question a lot. It’s just zoomed in.

[@larryayres4592]

Why is your vocal waveform severely clipped?

[@HomeStudioCorner]

It’s not. It’s just zoomed in.

[@thehighdeath5562]

Love your stuff, Joe. But didn’t you just remove about $3,000 worth of “warm low end” from that expensive mic?

[@HomeStudioCorner]

Yup. Go listen to your favorite albums. The lead vocals don't have all that low end.

[@HomeStudioCorner]

Yup. Go listen to your favorite albums. The lead vocals don't have all that low end.

[@thehighdeath5562]

@@HomeStudioCorner Totally agree with that. I guess my point was that all the warmth and bass response in those expensive mics isn’t really necessary in many cases.

[@HomeStudioCorner]

Agreed. I honestly didn’t enjoy mixing the vocal from that mic. I’ve got $300 mics I like better.

[@elisitacarlos5371]

I will like to hear the different between a real singer with school and technic and someone without it like that guy. Remember people who doesn't know how to sing generally they don't know how to breathes, how to project the sound or how to make the vocals cord vibrate when the air is passing through the cord and keep the note vibrating for a certain of time

[@HomeStudioCorner]

"That guy" is me. And I actually had several years of vocal training in college. 😂

[@kimchristiansen2397]

This so called "raw" vocal is already compressed to hell and back. What a scam video.

[@MrCool144]

Bros ears are fried if he thinks blasting isolated treble is normal.

[@ElQuinnMcClarty]

Thanks Joe