Mixing Backing Vocals

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[@sageaudio]

Thank you so much! Great to know you're enjoying the lessons so far! I'm looking forward to adding some more in the future.

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[@sageaudio]

That's great to hear! Thanks for watching and keeping up with these videos.

[@Desertphile]

Thank you. I am a vocalist, and mixing is a vast mystery to me---- which is why I let engineers do their magic "hands off" from my input. I know how to articulate "esses" and how to work a microphone regarding distancing so that engineers need not put much time fixing my mistakes. Whatever a sound engineers tells me to do, I do: it's their job to know these things. Regarding isolating each Sibilants to another track, that seems like too much work to me--- it's the vocalist's job to do it right so that engineers need not fix it.

[@sageaudio]

Thanks for watching! That's great of you to take that into consideration, and try to make their jobs as easy as possible (some artists don't think that way haha). The editing is time consuming for sure - creates a good sound, but at the expense of extra time hunched over the screen.

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Thanks for watching - glad to hear you enjoyed it!

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[@Tom-tv4ok]

ah yes finally I've been waiting a long time for you to do this in depth

[@sageaudio]

Awesome! I hope it helped

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[@sageaudio]

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[@PatrickObiang]

Awesome! Bravo!

[@sageaudio]

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[@marvybeats]

This was helpfull❤

[@TRAVHILL]

I have a song with roughly 15 backing vocals. Should I do a track stack and do all my processing on the the stack channel?

[@charliebetperez]

that will more than likely cause a myriad of issues

[@alexstyles9141]

Great video but the reason you want to add autotune prior to eq is because auto responds better off of low frequencies and actually offers more information so the autotune can do its job better.

[@GloveBunniesVideos]

Great video! I was just having these issues with my backing vocals. Thanks so much. Would you say that Pulsar's free (for now) W495 EQ would be a good substitute for the P440?

[@sageaudio]

That seems like a good substitute! I'm going to try it out myself

[@uwimanasamuel447]

Thanks again

[@sageaudio]

Thanks for watching this one!

[@nathanbenjamin5598]

Impressive

[@sageaudio]

Thanks for watching!

[@wellens_artist]

One quick comment on the trick to place the backing vocals around the stereo field : I find that it does a tremendous job in stereo on headphones, the positioning feels 3D. But when the mix collapses to mono, this trick causes some phase cancellations and the volume of the back vocals reduces considerably. That's ok if it's just a double that enhances the lead, but when it's for harmonies, I found that sometimes their volume is so reduced that they feel way too low once the mix plays on a bluetooth speaker for instance. I used to use this trick, but I stopped because of that. I'd have to mix the backing vocals too loud in order for them to be heard on a bluetooth speaker. It sounds really cool with headphones though.

[@sageaudio]

I see what you're saying! Yeah it's not the best with mono compatibility so I guess it just depends on which listening experience you want to prioritize. I'm okay with it since headphones/earbuds are such a popular way to listen to music, but I can see wanting to preserve the amplitude during mono playback.

[@Maesdy01]

Helpful

[@sageaudio]

Great! Thanks for leaving a comment

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Whoops! I just put it in the description

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[@BandoLyrix]

This song sounds like a TIKTOK hit 🎉

[@sageaudio]

Awesome! Thanks for watching

[@ortizgrant1652]

Is that de bruyne silhouette in front of mic ?!

[@sageaudio]

Haha I don't think so - but it does look like him now that you mention it

[@ratnacomposerstudio]

psychoacoustics was really interesting. thanks. sometimes i want grit in my backing vocals, i also keep modulating while i track them as per the tonal quality i desire in my backing too.

[@sageaudio]

It's cool stuff! Yeah some distortion or grit helps too - the harmonics and soft knee compression will make them dense / make them more uniform and full.

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[@sageaudio]

Thanks for watching!

[@nicooviedo8978]

Necesito que tu contenido también sea en Español. 🙏🏻

[@sageaudio]

Si seleccionas configuración, subtítulos y traduces, obtendrás subtítulos en español.