Pro Vocals with an iPHONE Recording?

[@hampsonpaul3531]

Tour Speed of work is something to behold and your love for your profession is inspiring .

[@TheSakuraGumiLTD]

I keep imagining when the camera stops Bella's voice switches to her natural deep manly low voice 😂

[@mixbustv]

Which it doesn't because that's her voice

[@TheSakuraGumiLTD]

@@mixbustv It's just a funny thought... never known such a cute voice... I'm from England, this is our humour...

[@PeanutButterAM]

😂😂😂

[@AVDRE]

Sounds better than I expected

[@andreiviievskyi2838]

Thanks for demonstrating the process!

[@andreiviievskyi2838]

I think it sounds great lol ;)

[@trashunicorn2308]

She sounds so amazing, there's something so deep about her singing wow

[@robvendetti]

You're describing all the defects... but it sounds FN awesome! Maybe not to your standards David, but you're definitely a pro! 👏

[@mixbustv]

Thank you! 🙏

[@soundhealer8661]

Amazing ! I hope Bella will finally release the soft song she did singing about you. That song is amazing and I don't find it on streaming services. Take care.

[@LeChapeauMusic]

to be totally honest, it sounded worse than i expected! i understand that it's a phone recording, but the mouth sounds were insane, and the s's/t's were so harsh and weird it can't really be fixed with mixing. my opinion is... get SM57's if you don't have much money and record everything with these.

[@titmusspaultpaul5]

Sounds FANTASTIC. Very well done.

[@aspirativemusicproduction2135]

Better good music recorded on field recorder than bad music recorded on the most appropriate equipment. If the music is boring me it doesn't matter too much how it's recorded. That's how I feel about it.

[@rrs731]

Holy!! One, she sounds amazing, two you are a wizard. So cool to see the live mixing, thank you!

[@RockstarRecStudio]

Beyond eye opening. The mix engineer IS everything 🤯🤯 I love how you shaped this step by step, it sounds incredible and if I didn't know, I couldn't tell it was recorded with a phone

[@BrandNewByxor]

4:11 There's a lot of good information in this video to digest, but the first step has already taught me an important lesson. In the past when I've tried to denoise vocals, I chucked them into audacity and butchered them with the noise removal effect in such a way that there was no noise floor whatsoever. But as shown in the video, it makes much more sense to use a gentle denoiser, then manually cut the silent parts, otherwise you end up chopping a bunch of important frequencies out of the vocals in a way that leaves them sounding hollow. No amount of post processing can fix this. Thanks David for the tutorials, it really helps to see the process step-by-step, and thanks Bella for providing great source material

[@tshrdrums]

Amazing! I have written several papers on using phones and iPads for recording, mixing and mastering… the results are incredible and the tools are outstanding!

[@HologramBoy]

She has a unique voice! Perfect voice for modern stuff but maybe also for jazz and swing I can imagine

[@veritas7010]

sounds good

[@MeanTrainingMachine]

I said it before and I repeat it, Bella could recite the alphabet and I would listen. But, you are an absolute master at your craft, I don't know anyone else this good with vocals, at any level.

[@1loveMusic2003]

Honestly with a good performance like that and a good song it's great. You work fast Man.

[@SoundKilterStudio]

Wow! That was interesting! As you said, it didnt sound horrible. But I could hear a couple examples of it "falling apart" once processing started. Regardless, watching you add your effects on the fly was awesome! Very inspiring. Now I cant wait to get home to my studio.😂 Excellent video bro!

[@ollykramer3673]

I was NOT expecting this result, wow guys!

[@jrocket7368]

That was amazing. Both of you. Mind is blown by this engineering

[@larrymann1272]

Wow, to my ears that iphone mix sounded professional.

[@audiosounddoctor5834]

The singer, she has a sweet voice and full of emotions......I think I have to change my android with an Iphone...hehe.....great job!

[@abelgutierrez1283]

Thank you for showing some real time process. We have some very similar workflow patterns. Fun experiment!

[@jonathanliu-chan238]

Great demonstrating, thanks so much

[@ritchelllim2571]

This was really fun to watch Bella is an amazing singer, was not expecting that voice hahaha Also, great mixing I especially loved your creative use of effects I’m curious though: The original audio file from the voice memo, was it an m4a or did you record lossless? It’s just interesting to me how I could hear the audio start to fall apart as it was being processed and it got me wondering if the original file was lossless to begin with…🤔

[@mixbustv]

M4a

[@ProdSwelly]

this was a good fun video especially now considering the up trend in new people recording with their phones now .

[@Frankie_G_]

Thank you

[@DreamsongsProductions]

That's a lot better than I imagined and you did great with the shaping of it. It's not a U47 😜 but for a Pop song that doesn't need too much body and freq info it works... Me at my next gig - Artist - "What kind of Producer are you, you forgot the mics..." Me - "Don't worry guys, I got this..." 😅

[@mbpublishing9195]

This was pretty incredible, not gonna lie

[@emilybeats6556]

Wow! Thank you for doing this guys!

[@TrueFallacy]

Sounds incredible, in spite of being phone audio 🔥

[@mixbustv]

🙏🙏

[@ArielNora]

I was about to say Bella would sound amazing even thru a phone.. wait, she just did!

[@alessandrosummer]

Cool! I agree this ain't bad, but not the best. Especially the dynamics were really too inconsistent - would it have been a bad idea to run them into a distressor to transparently equalize the volume?

[@AniFlameofGod]

Get you a man that looks at you like David does Bella, favorite couple ;-;

[@MrSasUGames]

Nice! Btw. What is the name of this standing acoustic screen which You used? 😁

[@w-hisky]

This was very interesting, thanks for trying this! 😎👍

[@erkamau9629]

One time I got a very good live demo with Fostex AR 4i, stereo mics interface for iPhone 4 and 4s, only 15 € today, incredible, pity not compatibile with newer iPhones...😢

[@erkamau9629]

You are really a master, personally I prefer a minimalistico approach, less is more. After a cleaning phase pass the correttive one and finally touch to colouring, only three different revs/delay. For example curious you use pitch correction in the middle and not at the start, after cleaning. I also thought You used Lava to vitual change mic 😊anyway the result Is great, miracle..and Bella voice Is very particolar...💪

[@mixbustv]

Thank you 🙏 I used it in the middle because I really go by instinct, and if something worries me (in this case harshness) I want at least to take a pass at that first. I already know the pitch correction is not gonna affect that and the other way around. But no other reason than that's where my thoughts went to first

[@nashse7en]

I have funny friend that always have the latest iphone, latest playstation and all that, but he can't buy a 50$ mic and keeps sending me his iphone rap recordings with a youtube beat on the background. That video made me remember him. 🤣🤣

[@LoveMeBack]

Who’s we? It was all you! It came out great. I hate using reverb, because I can’t. It’s either to “reverby” or I don’t like the tail(artifacts). And that’s just with one reverb?!

[@MariJu1ce]

guess it works if you want to take the fix it in the mix approach

[@Makiguli]

What are the Refs of the 2 lights you have on your speakers that moove with the sound ? i love them ! thanks in advance...

[@mixbustv]

Not available anymore

[@Makiguli]

@@mixbustv thanks for ur answer... so sad... they are amazing...

[@Remixed_By_Mus-T]

realy nice made

[@PharaohLawLess1]

Sounds good to my ears…..sometimes you gotta use what ya got

[@TzoHill]

Good stuff David. You still hitting the gym? Looking good 💪

[@soulofwaves]

Hi David, I've seen people saying that when we have such wide dynamic range in a vocal recording it's a good practice to manually chop the recording and adjust gain in every clip to make it more consistent, it's very time consuming but is it something you would recommend?

[@mixbustv]

It's not really time consuming (people are lazy) but I don't like it. You can hear the noise floor/signal changing when you do that. If a singer has a wide dynamic range, you record in blocks and set the gain for each block. That of course, if you don't have analog gear because if you do you just compress on the way in.

[@soulofwaves]

@@mixbustv thanks, makes sense, with no analog gear then would be better to stick to automation to control the dynamic range (appart from the processing of course)?

[@Promomoguls]

Iphone ohh yeah!!

[@nugatio1199]

Slay

[@BellaKellyOfficial]

❤❤

[@mixbustv]

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