How to Mix Vocals to Sit Perfectly in the Mix

Want to get your vocals to really sit in the mix? I have a few dope mixing techniques that will have your vocals sitting perfectly in your next mix.
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3:00 Leveling the vocal
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[@sarahtonin4649]

Another great job, and what a fine vocalist. I often do use the Vocal Rider as a first step, but I only use it to write an initial automation track, because it only takes a few seconds. That gives me a rough automation, based only on the amplitude of the wave. So then all I have to do is use my ears, which I do trust, to fine tune the automation that Vocal Rider wrote. I also use the clip gain feature during the mixing process, which is essentially the same in Studio One, my DAW of choice.

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[@lorenzomoore1252]

I’m a beginner for sure mixing my own vocals for some reason my vocals has been really louder than the actual beat but I’m about to try this technique hopefully I can get my vocals to sit in the beat tight thank you for all the gems you share big bro

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[@fateone_hsm]

Try adjusting your mic levels you should do mic check in every studio wavy showed me that if adjust your levels before recording

[@makmusikchi]

your mic input is probably set too high. Also, the beat may have been bounced out too low. i like to make sure my vocals when recording are at about -5 to 0db. Your beat should sit around 0db to leave some headroom for the vocals. And when recording i leave both the beat and vocal tack at 0 then mix. I should mention that i also send my mic input into a bus track with a compressor on it and then bus that signal to an audio track to record.

[@jaysRiddum]

Set volume to -12db before recording vocals. Thank me later. That's how pros do it

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I struggle with this a lot. I usually get the track sent to me so I have to mix my own vocals and that can be tricky. Thanks so much for this!

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Great vibe bro. 💯, automation are not just for the vocals !! Use them every where and also on reverb/delay bus

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Aye this legit was helpful, thank you dawg.

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I Love your videos bro thanks for making videos tryna help us out with the vocal mixes we be tryna work on

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Her vocals sound angelic and smooth

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I find vocal rider does an incredible job. You can also write the ride as automation and tweak it if needed.

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Vocal rider is obsolete. Nectar 3 has that built into the input of the signal now. And you can get nectar 3 PLUS for $50 right now normally about $500....Vocal rider is $29 and cant compare to be Nectar....EVER!!!

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Ima be real, my favorite plug in to sit vocals in the pocket is easily wavesfactory trackspacer with the side chain… nothing compares… especially for A 2 track beat… don’t have to eq much in the presence range for the beat

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What is your vocal chain going in and do you use 44 or 48 sessions???

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i built a vocal chain that sounds good to my ear but now I want a more humanized less autotuny vocal and tighter vocals

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Turn down the attack an release on ur auto tune setting. If u can't then try the old tpain plug in where u can go from soft(which is little to no auto tune) or hard which is the opposite. A lot or all the way. Tighten it up how? In the mix? Try some reverb/delay

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If you go to the clip right click the menu pops up....go to clip gain, hit show line.....you can then have it there if you need it.....Now all you have to do is lower what you want w/o the hot key......Just another option.

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How do I get the clip gain line through the clip so I can see it

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Right click and choose to show clip gain line

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I feel like my waveform doesn't visually get smaller like yours does when I automate volume

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Hey Wayne, I’m having a problem that I cannot solve no matter what I try. The instrumentals I’m loading into pro tools are crackling, clicking, and popping. I have no effects on it’s just a clean session with the beat only. The beat had no crackling, clicking, nor popping before uploading into pro tools. I’ve listened from email, phone and on laptop in the media window but only get this feedback from protools and I’ve tried bouncing the track and I still have this problem after bouncing. Is there anything I can do? Please help.

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tried increasing the buffer size in protools ?

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Pay attention to the rate of the file you are importing. Every now and then files don’t convert correctly