Find that spot, then pull the filter back down a bit. You don’t want to cut into the actual body of the sound. Use a high-pass filter and sweep it upwards until you hear that you start losing body in the vocal sound. The first thing I do when I have a finished vocal recording, is to filter out the low rumbles – especially if no filter/pad was used during recording. You’ll have your own workflow that you like. Equalizing vocals I like to start with the EQ when I process vocals. Laser-guided, pitch perfect vocals are the way to go if you’re recording the next Justin Bieber or Selena Gomez.Īs much as I respect those two artists, I personally do not like that style of vocal mixing, and I will not take that kind of mixing philosophy into account here. When I talk about this, keep in mind that I work exclusively in genres other than teenybopper Top 40 material. Excessive processing and uncritical use of pitch correction can really suck all the life out of a good vocal recording. There is, however, a fine line between polished and artificial, which is something I’ll be addressing in this post. Bottom line: Your vocals better sound good. A majority of listeners do not play drums or guitars, but they all have voices that they use every day. It’s what the listener latches onto first, and it is what audiences relate most easily to. This goes back to what I talked about before: The vocals are the main focal point of a rock or pop recording. While you want the vocals to sound as natural as possible – as we talked about in the previous post – you also want them to sound polished and present and, again, slightly larger than life. Few areas of the mix are more critical when it comes to that final polish than the vocals.

Sounds are slightly hyped to be clearer, larger, stronger than if you just put a microphone in front of the musicians and released that recording without further ado.

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