POP VOCAL CHAIN | with ASHER ODDE

Castle Row Studios presents Odde's tips and tricks for building a modern pop vocal chain. Vocal chain plugins, EQ, adding saturation to your vocals, everything you need to give your pop vocal mix that sweet presence and studio-quality sound.

[@elizabethsteele4633]

I'm a retired film rerecording mixer - started back before there was any automation --- nothing , nada . Mixed mostly on the Neve DFC ( digital film console ) and later on Euphonics and Protools . We film mixers ride the faders like demons and I've noticed that music mixers usually leave the faders alone and do things " wide swath " with plug ins . I usually used an 1EQ , 1 compressor ( Waves R Comp ) and the Lexicon 480 reverb . The real stuff happens with the faders . Thanks for showing how you work and sharing some of your tips .

[@squadronbeats2108]

Clarity but not the harshness. That’s a super important aspect to get good vocals. Great way to describe it!

[@castlerowstudios]

Totally agree!

[@elmi9889]

amazing content, the difference its that sometimes home studios like my case we dont have that quality sound in microphones and preamps so we need more tricks to get something closer to this result.

[@hoggboyy]

I can't wait to try widening the ambience! I don't know why I never thought of that.

[@kelvynification]

The track is super cool:)

[@charli3boy]

I thought his computer fan noise was my laptop. I had to stop the video twice to check hahaha

[@lamarasamuel]

It takes watching this to realize everyone has their own style. And its okay.

[@squadronbeats2108]

This video inspires me to get better at using multi-band compressors.

[@castlerowstudios]

They are very helpful!

[@itsnomaDMusic]

This sounds f*cking amazing... and this dude has great energy! Curious what's on his main bus though 🤔

[@castlerowstudios]

Thank you!

[@Reggi_Sample]

I struggle sometimes with wondering if I cut too much midrange from the vocal. Seeing this man cut 1 db, dynamic cut 2b, to then ssl eq cut another 6db of the low mids made me feel at ease😂🎉

[@neek8306]

this is a great chain

[@castlerowstudios]

Thank you!

[@gabilaofficial]

Remember u from the Patrick cc videos...a super fam of ur work from those,u got my thumbs up & sub

[@castlerowstudios]

Thank you!

[@asherodde]

@@castlerowstudios Tnanks Man! More Content on Its Way!

[@agustinsilva175]

so in Ableton you put all those plug ins in a a same return track or you place them in the same vocal track?

[@utoydwair5568]

I start school soon and i believe then all of this will make sense. Honestly it seems like everything can be done from a laptop now and a mic. So ready to sang. What should i be doing to prepare for audio mastering production school?

[@castlerowstudios]

Be ready to learn obviously but more importantly be patient with the process of improving your craft!

[@utoydwair5568]

@@castlerowstudios thanks for responding. So my question should have been the best way to be patient with learning my craft while meeting so many that seems to become more excited than me when seeing my excitement about starting school till they are already trying to hire me. I have a history of being like well ok since I'm learning i guess i can use your project as my class project. The work gets done and i learn but it seems so much harder than just learning normally. Do people throw themselves at you to do every little job? Im sure they would if they could always find you but how do you handle that? Do you put them on a wait list? Back burner them for some time, because that just came to me that i may need to do.

[@Ivan23indagame]

Thank U)

[@Darksagan]

Nice.

[@castlerowstudios]

Thank you!

[@elizabethsteele4633]

Interesting . De - es to warm it up and then Saturn to make it sizzle .

[@xelTonE]

Gread stuff

[@castlerowstudios]

Thank You!!

[@philiasjefferly7273]

How we can get the ptx or the ptxt of this song?

[@castlerowstudios]

This song is not available for public use, but soon we will have an online course that offers downloadable course files. But you can check out the completed song on all platforms. The song is called "Girl in White" by Metra.

[@Zarabozo]

Not exactly a description of your vocal chain; more like post processing. I was hoping to hear about your microphone, which hardware it goes into, interface... and then, the ITB processing.

[@figlermaert]

Super obnoxious way to start a video

[@artv4nd3l4y]

This guy has no clue what he's talking about

[@BukanIbuMu]

He's a pro