How to Mix Vocals to a 2 Track! (Pro Secrets Revealed)

This is the last time you'll have to search for "how to mix vocals to a 2 track beat".
Kevin "Black Pearl" McCloskey gives his A-Z approach when he's only got a 2 Track beat to work with.
Considering he got his first, Number 1 Billboard Charting Album ("KIRK" by Da Baby) that were mostly 2 Track beats, we'd say he knows a thing or two about this topic.
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⏰ Time Stamps:
0:00 - Tip Number 1
3:02 - Low Band
4:07 - High Band
4:30 - Mid Band
6:20 - Balancing Vocals
7:01 - Tip Number 2
10:10 - BONUS Tip
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[@ManManGrindHard5]

new to mixing and my jaw dropped when you show'd you could side chain eq the 2 track to pillow the vocals. I appreciate that GEM!!!

[@DerekRiver]

I seen another way somewhere on KZbin where you can actually side chain and eq the exact frequencies your vocals land

[@ManManGrindHard5]

@@DerekRiver I thought that was what he did

[@JackDenning]

BRO thank you!!

[@5bmbooba183]

both jorden nd him is my favorite 💪🏾🗣 yall too good💯

[@Luan_araujo91]

Stunning.

[@qua1ntZz]

Fine idea dude, sounds legit))

[@mixedbyrg5481]

Fire! 🎚🎛

[@carlos-ni4hn]

Yooooo this video absoluty crazy a big one i love the 2trk beat and this is tge video 😮😮

[@MyAudioAcademy]

Let’s goooo! Happy to hear this was helpful my guy 🤙 Anything you’d like to see covered next? 🤔

[@carlos-ni4hn]

@@MyAudioAcademy What I would like to see personally would be to see engineer Jason Goldenberg in this channel teaching us how he deconstruction of the nba -Vette motor song 🔥🔥

[@GauravhMUSIC]

Amazing

[@jonsvn]

thank you for the explanation .

[@MyAudioAcademy]

Absolutely! Thanks for watching 😎 What's some topics that you'd like to see next?

[@carlos-ni4hn]

​@@MyAudioAcademy I would like to see in the next video how to work the voice with the adlibs to leave them in their place, if possible it will be in the dababy vibez project from the kirk album

[@shawnsteven1869]

yay !

[@JiiNxMusic]

Yeah this was perfect fr.

[@MyAudioAcademy]

Yessssir 🤙 Got any topics you’d like to see next?

[@whostroubled]

Yo goat, should I be messing with the sustain at all on that Neutron 4??? I never know. Only fiddle the attack with confidence lol. Let me know

[@zineddinemnasri9956]

one Q pls, what do you think about smack attack from waves?

[@Cactus3700]

Think you can use something like TDR Nova to get the multiband effect for free

[@ilovewoe717]

Are you doin all of that on the master channel or separate

[@ProdByAdamSki]

He’s doing that all on the two track beat not the master

[@ufomusik2132]

Damn bro you only used two plugins if Im not mistaken shit 😂🔥🔥🔥

[@MyAudioAcademy]

Simplicity is the secret sauce 🏆🎯🎛️

[@BOODA575]

are there any 2 track mix examples on the course

[@MyAudioAcademy]

Yes 👍 There’s a Bonus Training in the course where he breaks down BOP by Da Baby, which is a 2 Track mix.

[@adriantm8572]

lets say the low-end is very heavy, should i decrease the attack instead, what about sustain, nothing mentioned about it

[@Kevin-rb3lv]

Great question. You can just bring some of the transient detail out in the top to balance out the bottom end. I wouldn’t recommend taking it away with a transient shaper because you’re going to lose some punch at the mastering stage BUT every situation is different. Sustain is really useful on individual sounds but I find there’s too much information happening in a 2 track to really isolate what you want it to affect so I typically leave it alone. Hope that helps!

[@MyAudioAcademy]

@@Kevin-rb3lv Boom! ⬆

[@ManManGrindHard5]

@@Kevin-rb3lv you should drop content!!!!

[@adriantm8572]

@Kevin-rb3lv thank you!

[@ohnorrrrr]

What daw?

[@sejohfrogi]

wow

[@xaronwhite5376]

Learned alot off of this video. Would you soft clip the 2 track instrumental?

[@kevinmccloskey48]

I would not typically, bordering on never. Most two tracks are already over compressed so soft clipping them will cause you to lose headroom and dynamics (even when clipping is presented as a way to get loudness without sacrificing dynamics, but not exactly the case) the goal is to get more dynamic range out of the beat and not less. if I do use a clipper it would be in the mastering stage not directly on the two track but you never know. If I needed to I would.

[@xaronwhite5376]

@kevinmccloskey48 Thank you Great response by the way... So if you soft clip on the mix bus or mastering stage is there a certain amount of clipping you aim for or is it just until it sounds punchy?

[@enriquemccomas6273]

This wasn’t shit show the low end

[@MyAudioAcademy]

Would you like soup with that?

[@LA_marr]

Bro can I send you guys a mix on discord for feedback