How to Make Vocals Sound Professional

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Mixing #vocals can be extremely challenging. In this video I share 6 vocal #mixing principles to help you tackle that next vocal mix like a boss.
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[@HomeStudioCorner]

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[@travist.warren5824]

Best teacher I have found on YT regarding mixing. He sticks to the meat and taters, explains in a very simple way. Love this channel

[@mindhive625]

Bro your voice is silky smooth. I could fall asleep to this

[@Luxury_SA]

I came to the comments to talk about his voice.

[@johnbrusseau8145]

A perfect teacher. CLarity without the distractions of unneeded information. Vocal mixing was an inscutable mystery to me until this video. Now I can see clearly. The rain is gone.

[@user-dd7ke6dz4r]

I’ve been searching for this content for 5 years 😢 thank you sirrr !!

[@chemdrum]

Excellent video as usual! Another key take from this: You know you're on the right track if your vocal already sounds great even without effects such as reverb and delay. 🔥🔥

[@tymelyneentertainments7478]

Brilliant!!!

[@johncostopoulos7741]

Greatly appreciated! Excellent tutorial

[@fingereze7202]

Great stuff here Joe! Thank you for sharing. 👍👍

[@K.Martin86]

Joe is in my brain! Always coming in clutch with the right topics at the right time!

[@sorrytopart]

Big Thanks Joe

[@cdevils]

Thank you this is so helpful!

[@MarkDevlin]

An excellent tutorial. Thank you.

[@IntraVortex]

What a great tip on lowering the mid range a bit to accentuate the high. I was too egotistical to have thunk it. Too bad for me. But good for me now! Thx!

[@jeffsstuff6575]

This was excellent, Joe!

[@billholman279]

Good stuff! Thank you!

[@youngeshmoney]

Joe is incredibly underrated and deserves way more followers, I'm happy to see he's grown to 250k+

[@Friops]

Your tutorials are always so easy to follow and understand! They are very hepful, thank you 🙏

[@AhmedAlaaofficial]

Thank you for the video ❤️

[@robladue8456]

Thanks Joe.. you are so helpfull...

[@GregVasquez777]

Great video thanks!!

[@okay1904]

Fantastic tutorial. Thank you. Really good and very practical demonstration.

[@mikewaldron4492]

I always laugh somewhere in your videos. You Nashville guys have a great sense of humour. Would love to see you, if you haven't already, team up with Joe Carrell. He cracks me up too. Though I hardly learn something new in your videos (been songwriting/mixing since the early '90s), you always make me re-evaluate my workflow. Little subtleties and nuances as to why you make a certain eq (or whatever) move, you explain it so well. All the best dude!

[@makethisfood8574]

Thank you, you are a great teacher. ☕

[@rdb232]

Thank you for the lesson

[@jimmyquail1]

Great job joe🙂

[@smonomono4194]

Simple yet masterful video. Thanks yo!

[@studiomacleod]

Super helpful, thanks

[@socialmeaslesinpartnership1252]

Thank you. Most useful.

[@raymondspagnuolo8222]

A lot of useful info. Thanks.

[@gkswift1999]

Joes always got a great approach and easy to listen to. Believe it or not, that makes a huge difference in whether I listen to and watch a channel. There are so many that are not pleasant or interesting, or they are very self-servant in the way they speak, and it makes me leave the channel. Joe's a great teacher and that makes a big difference

[@Vedran-Music]

You're awesome!

[@Nahlidge508]

Watching your vids have been helping make a lot of stuff I've been learning click, and I'm starting to get a better sense of how to approach my mixes. Thank you for these.

[@edgarsnake2857]

Great tips. Thanks, Joe. The mix you were using to demonstrate sounded great.

[@irawardofficial]

Good stuff Joe !!

[@kkrause342]

Thanks Joe. The compression tip in particular really helped me get some extra polish on my vocal.

[@Elvistico]

Great video. Super.

[@songperformer_NET]

Very well explained, thanks for the skill transfer

[@mikebooth9619]

Love your no nonsense approach. It's not magic and that's the message you get across very well.

[@kevinlentz7604]

Awesome ❤

[@unstopology]

Great video, as usual! The moment someone taught me to cut before boosting anything, that was a game changer.

[@robvendetti]

Thanks! Nice song, good tutorial!

[@tdcmusicnow5312]

Awesome stuff It's a continuous learning process 😎

[@tigerfightsmonkey9268]

Thank you! Great video. Liked and subscribed.

[@benharrison7244]

Well explained at a good pace. Subscribed

[@Arian-abbas]

Great video.. You solved all my mix problems.. Thank you very much.

[@herosbride2834]

Great video as usual Joe. You're my go to source for all things recording.

[@jeremythomas2865]

2:17 is the best thing in this video. Always great content Joe. And I’ve always liked your vocal sound while you’re speaking to us. Great to point out what the source vs the end sounds like, even for your voiceover mic.

[@RickRand00]

Joe I really liked your video. Not only for the content, but the way in which you shot it, Each and every adjustment on equipment was seen on screen with out having to squint at what you where doing. Very nice.

[@juggernautlila]

Where has this video been. Thank you sir!! Incredibly helpful

[@motyyahav1]

you are awesome thanks

[@carkymane]

This right here is the ideal tutorial.

[@ChrisDerMann]

Thanks Joe for no bs and cuttin straight to the point, very good explanation! :D

[@mcbryant2]

great summary

[@johnlance3860]

Joe! Thanks for demonstrating how useful and great sounding the Tube CB is! I have most of the popular compressors available today and I still use the Fat Channel Tube CB all the time. It's really a great compressor.

[@stefanoguidone]

Hi Joe, thanks for this video and for the many I watched lately. Definitely got to subscribe to your channel for such great content! Thanks

[@noahseeton]

Thank you Joe, just used the de-muffling technique on a track I'm mastering and it turned out way better.

[@setordziprincedoe4576]

I really love this video... God bless you. Imma gone work on myself 😊 Greetings from Ghana

[@Meesamitch]

Hey mate i have watched a few of your vids now and they are always helpful and you have a really good video style. Keep up the good work

[@TS_Moss]

The tutorialis great ... but the voice is fantastic!!

[@Ghostie.]

another banger video. You're definitely one of the reasons I picked Studio one to learn with.

[@gkswift1999]

I've been with Reaper for 17yrs, but seriously into trying studio one after so many great reviews. Is it free, or have a trial?

[@benit6913]

That overall volumen trick like it a lot, thxx great video

[@mattkeating1396]

Just found your channel / videos - really great videos - learning from the start and great explanations.

[@joon.giorachoi]

thank you, bro.

[@Harrison94music]

Your videos are great man, I’m a sound engineer student from Scotland, thanks 🙏

[@uzaysametaydin]

Thank you

[@abewhere79]

Tq joe❤❤❤❤❤

[@alynfordmusic]

Thanks good tips

[@nelsontsokakwazvinoitika2723]

so nice bro

[@bevenfive224]

wow nice tutorial

[@michaeltablet8577]

When I get ready to mix I ask myself. What would Joe do?

[@precisionsoundworksstudio]

Key compression terminology… make it , “berr berr!” 😂🙌🏻 Great vid, Joe!

[@MUSASHI-BLACK]

NICE

[@MrTheMoondog]

Thanks

[@marcotrosi]

when you mentioned Volume automation I had my own "oh that again"-moment, as I just came from the Audio Mountain youtube channel who just released a video on that topic. It's a new channel and I can only recommend it. And he also started using Studio One.

[@mephiirampoza4434]

If I would afford it, you would be my producer! I like all your approaches on mixing. God bless you

[@JohannesBraunias]

You have an excellent speaker voice. No EQ and compressor can create this voice. So sometimes, it's really a matter of the source 🙂

[@NikArcher]

IMO this is the hardest part, especially if you work on your own vocals. here, at the end of the clarity chapter, I even think the vocals sound metallic? like in a can or as if there was a funnel around the mic :o but maybe I hear it differently tomorrow :D

[@JoeStuffzAlt]

I honestly was shocked how far people pushed compression, and it indeed made things sound better once I found it out. Without another one of your videos, I wouldn't have thought of using that strong of a compressor level. I do agree with the levels. Sometimes I hear an over-processed vocal and in the past, I thought that over-processed vocals were heavily autotuned (and they could have been). It turns out fx like compressors can make it sound autotuned as well

[@lavinchi6709]

Спасибо✨🎸

[@zivaikarumazondo6639]

I like the beginner and the you

[@abaldaju]

Are going to hear another EP soon? Staredown was beautiful one 🙂

[@paulfrank8738]

Fantastic information presented in a great way. But I did have a thought about compression. The compression you used seemed perfect for smoothing out the dynamic inconsistencies of a singer. But it made me wonder if that amount of compression would be too much for a style of music where vocal dynamics are a more important part of the music. (And, the singer would have to be good at performing those dynamics.)

[@QuantumNomada]

i subscribe becouse you use Studio One, and make good content 💯

[@kimbapx]

0:06 sounded like McCree from Overwatch lol Also, I liked how you said "don't do the exact same thing, learn the bigger lesson."

[@altermore]

4:45 I'm using dynamic EQ thing for this frequency range ☺️

[@MichaelMarkky345]

Hey man, love your content! Would love to have you do a video on mixing two-track beats. I can find none using stock studio one stuff anywhere and I'm need of learning. So, if you haven't already done such a vid, please consider it!

[@HomeStudioCorner]

I would but that's not something I do. But honestly, mixing vocals is mixing vocals.

[@Dedwoodco]

wow you are a goddamned vocal scientist. i have a really hard time wrapping my head around how all those frequencies work in production. I am a professional singer but producing vocals on a DAW is so overwhelming to me. sometimes i feel dumb when watching guys like you at work. it would help if I knew what the hell plug ins you were using hahahah

[@HomeStudioCorner]

They come with studio one. I almost never use any 3rd party plugins.

[@shaynekant8959]

Great video ! Do you still recommend using the Presonus Studio-live series consoles ???

[@personalwatching9312]

Brilliant as always Joe. How do you find air hockey affects the vocal?

[@HomeStudioCorner]

Adds a nice “airyness” to the vocal

[@personalwatching9312]

@@HomeStudioCorner hahahaah I'll pay that

[@tdz69]

When you turned off the eq on your voice just speaking….wow. Such a huge difference.

[@michaeldavis9954]

Would like to hear this kind of thing with a big baritone voice instead. They might not be common in contemporary pop, but thankfully there’s more to musical life than that.

[@lowke14]

We all knew the get it right at the source was coming 😂 but it definitely is crucial

[@mookiiieeee]

Didn’t know presonus made a cl1b emulation. Sounds good. Wonder if it has the frequency response of the unit emulated as well (has a very slight smiley face eq)

[@IvejohnLe]

Thanks so much for this video. I am looking for the best reverb/delay for vocal (something sounds like the one they are using in America got talents) what do you suggest? I appreciate your help.

[@Ramzo16]

Only correct vocals vid I've seen on KZbin in over 15 years

[@MJ_Pictures_Studio]

Hi Sir I'm your big fans, i learn lots of technique from you. please make choir vocal mixing and timing . pitch correct. Tutorial

[@gabrielthesingingpilot]

7:00 did you warm up your voice sufficiently? Were you sufficiently hydrated? I find i get this when i dont do enough of above. Great video! What are your thoughts on automation as opposed to compression? Ive read some engineers on certain voices use no compression at all as it sucks the life out of the vocal (as you mentioned) i try do automate to bring offensive volume peaks down then subtle compression (3-Db max gain reduction). Cheers!

[@0010Kev]

Great info as usual Joe. I do have one question/request. Since you're a man all of your vocal videos are dealing with male vocals. The main vocalist in my little group of music friends is a woman with a powerful high voice. There isn't so much of a problem with the lows in her vocals as there is with harshness and sibilance. Man..her sibilance can get wicked! I've learned so much from you I've gotten pretty good with eq'ing out the harshness but it's hard to balance the de-essing. Is there some way you could do a video using a female voice sometime? Thanks...you're awesome!

[@HomeStudioCorner]

Principles are exactly the same. It's just the frequencies are a bit higher on a female.

[@JulioSerrano2015]

Thanx! very useful advice in your vid. Is it me or did you use some autotune in the original vocal recording?