How to Make Thick Vocals

[@OmgItsAlexOfficial]

The MV2 is still a secret weapon. Awesome to keep any bass stuff pinned and steady too.

[@ahmaanhunt]

ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!!

[@binaryaftershock]

MV2 acts like L1 Limiter pretty much the same

[@JTFuller]

GREAT SCOTTTT!!!!! I had to rewind some of that...

[@rick_amsterdam]

Great straight to the point video. Thanks for the time stamps!

[@MuhammadRahatLatifTousif]

You are welcome

[@Se7eNTh1rte3N]

Why are you not mixing with the music? Kinda hard to get the vocal to sit in the mix when there isn't a mix you're mixing to

[@danecustance2734]

Thanks thats levled up my vocals.

[@sageaudio]

Awesome! Thanks for watching

[@incthunder33]

Thank you!! This is amazing!!

[@Chuthasan]

OMG this is real gem

[@TISTWORLD]

Awesome vid break down in enough detail short time no bs straight easy helpful content thank u boss !

[@doreldumbrava2627]

Foarte, foarte utile şi mau ales gratuite. Mulţumesc din suflet..!

[@nerolifong1824]

a lifesaver

[@Henle_]

Your videos are so easy to follow, and I often rewatch certain parts many times. Besides the OTT, are there any free upward compressors similar to the MV2? Thanks!

[@inspirationalinspirations6463]

Melda Mcompressor with custom shape or upwards compression preset

[@inspirationalinspirations6463]

General Dynamics JS plugin in Reaper is probably the easiest to use

[@Henle_]

@@inspirationalinspirations6463 Ayo didn't see those presets, thx.

[@Henle_]

@@potatochipappi Good to know, although I don't normally use FL

[@timpilney2197]

Vola sonic anomaly

[@hallsaga9719]

Wow consistency ✅✅

[@sukhi.rockstar]

I luv this channel 💕💕💕 thankyou for amazing knowledge 🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@JOEL-zz1cc]

Sage audio , God bless u 🙏🏽

[@sageaudio]

Thanks for watching Jo El! SageAudio.com

[@shubhrasinha268]

Gain compensated examples would be helpful!

[@BLARSpot]

at 6:57 since he's using the fader I assume he's sending the parallel signal through the bus at unity gain. Any reason why to do that over controlling bus amount through the channel?

[@doneboyremo]

You're not a fan of the CLA 76 / RComp or Rvox? I see you use the fab filter pro c compressor consistently. Might just add it to my arsenal to hear the difference 😅

[@abrotherinchrist]

What's the difference between the MV2 and Oxford Inflator?

[@sageaudio]

They both introduce upward processing - inflator also adds some harmonics, but how it works exactly is still a little mysterious to me. From reading the manual a few times the most I could gather was that it prioritizes bits of data with positive values (1s over 0s) which translates to signal being prioritized over silence. As a result the inflator increases quieter details similar to the MV2, but the means by which it does so seems different. SageAudio.com

[@doneboyremo]

Hi, thank you for the vid. Just a quick question when you say the attentute 2.5k range on the EQ and refer to the low fq range as its fundamental.... What does fundamental mean in this case? 😅

[@walfmusic]

Thank You for the videos 🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@salassandoval]

Reverb also make things further away, the opposite of thick

[@sageaudio]

That's true! But when set to shorter settings it can create a denser sound. SageAudio.com

[@bossselva1]

at starting saturation which plugin u used in it ??

[@sageaudio]

Infinistrip by PSP Audioware! SageAudio.com

[@robertvondarth1730]

Is there a hardware based up compressor?

[@stansontheBeat]

am so fast boy!!

[@sageaudio]

True! Thanks for watching! SageAudio.com

[@Paradoxers333]

Is it possible to do it with free plugins

[@magicaloctave9509]

Fantastic 😃

[@Tiebuaudio]

I got here so quick👍

[@sageaudio]

Haha you did! Thanks for watching! SageAudio.com

[@salassandoval]

But compressors eat low end, i think it can bring forward but not thicken it.

[@sageaudio]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! That hasn't been my experience with compressors - since they're attenuating the full frequency spectrum, and post compression amplification will bring up quieter details from the lows as well as the rest of the frequency spectrum. SageAudio.com

[@salassandoval]

@@sageaudio i think is always important to remember that after compression, of course depending on the settings, you usually want to recover transient and low end with other devices or Plug-ins after the compression. Let's talk more about it! Cheers.

[@RafaelBernatto]

I don't think your definition of upwards compression is quite right... You said: "It captures quieter parts of the vocal, compresses them and then amplifies them." MV2 is a weird example because it doesn't have a threshold to work with.. It ends up compressing everything, not only the quieter parts. Of course, the noise floor will go up by the exact value you set.. On your example it was 10.8 so the noise will be 10.8dB louder. The definition of upwards compression: when a signal goes below the threshold it gets amplified. In theory you will reduce the overall dynamics but you won't alter the louder parts (above threshold). What's happening around the threshold will change depending on ratio and knee etc. So, things might get weird if you have a hard knee in addition to a high ratio. Your signal might get too loud right bellow threshold. Except that with MV2 you won't be compressing this way because the threshold is fixed and really really high. Sometimes it appears to be higher than 0, even. With Pro-MB, for example, you can work more conventionally and it will make more sense if you like the math around threshold, ration, knee. In summary, upwards compression is fairly simple but MV2 will compress everything because of the way it was designed (not allowing you to set up a threshold)... Not with Pro-MB, the latter will not change the loud parts (that escape above the threshold). Opening MV2 and Pro-MB on PluginDoctor is a really good way of not only comparing the two but to understand upwards compression. I hope I made sense. Non-native English speaker here.

[@mansosound]

Still dont like that mv2. Never did.

[@aidancues]

I swear I'm missing something here! Need a fresh brain to explain! Was playing about with the MSED on a vox track and my vox is in mono and your example is in stereo.....at what point did you change from mono to stereo in your workflow? I have to be missing something !!! Feel like an eejit!

[@sageaudio]

Hey Aidan! Sorry I don't think I explained it too thoroughly - when you add temporal processing like delay, reverb or chorus, etc, it more times than not cause differences between the left and right channels making the track stereo. With these differences we get a side image! SageAudio.com

[@mansosound]

Who said louder aint better

[@yashukumar8489]

Which saturation plugin has been used in the first part of video ?

[@funkyneo]

i need to know too

[@sageaudio]

InfiniStrip by PSP Audioware! SageAudio.com

[@andrewdressler6173]

Upward compression

[@sageaudio]

Thanks for watching - true, that'll make the vocal sound thick

[@andrewdressler6173]

@sageaudio thanks for tip I wrote the comment so I would remember. It's a helpful tip.

[@govindasoniofficial2239]

❤️❤️❤️

[@rafachox5804]

❤🔥🙌

[@DivineDisciple7]

Mv2

[@fuzzmanx]

Please fix the title!

[@fuzzmanx]

Thanks! Just want the best for y'all!

[@marksierra4694]

Reca

[@lahattec]

PLEASE do not stream at 60fps.

[@helsinkioslo836]

Thats a crappy vocal clip to start with.