recording and mixing vocals

GATE

goes before comp and reverb

reverb and chorus can come before the comp in the chain too for extra WOW SPACE GARAGE

i use some nice light delay or plate verb and i always pull out resonant frequencies in the lower mids.

Putting reverb before compression would be kind of weird. EQ is important. Also try playing with delay. Sometimes a single short delay, timed to the track (i.e., to an 8th note, 16th note, or whatever) and mixed low can add a lot of depth. Sometimes delay is good without reverb, and sometimes you might want to try both.

reverb before compression is great with a fast release!

also obviously all vocals should be run through a bandpass filter controlled by an LFO set to sample+hold

I used to enjoy taking vocals with effects and gating them, umm, manually -- i.e., by going through the wav file and muting the space somewhat haphazardly between phrases -- which created this robotic Ellen Allieny feel. The only problem was creating intense gramattical disagreements by accidentally chopping off lingering "S" plurals, leading to weird lines about, e.g., "your eye."

do some damping, so if you are in a corner, get two matresses in the corner to deaden the sound a little bit, i always do any gating and anything like that afterwards if you can.

pop/wind shield, coathanger and tights work alright. this is kinda important, the breathy windy sound can really steal space in a mix.

reverb is kinda a deffo on vocals, not having reverb is kind of an effect in itself.

tell me about gating and how it works... plz?

A gate will attenuate or mute a track when the level drops below a certain threshold. It's useful for getting rid of small noise in the spaces between vocal phrases or lead guitar phrases or tom fills or whatever. If you have automation you can also do the same thing by automating the track's level or mute by hand.

You can also use a gate on a send to create an effect, like gated reverb, or gating the send to a parallel compressor or something.

also obviously all vocals should be run through a bandpass filter controlled by an LFO set to sample+hold

― El Tomboto, Thursday, June 21, 2007 4:26 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Can you or anyone else explain this with a little more detail? Also, does anyone know what EQ settings work best? Thanks.

possibly he was taking the wee

eq is dependent on the voice really, but some muddiness can be taken out round 250-350 if required and i always like to do a little boost round 3k and a little air boost round 10k

using my very very favourite eq

http://www.robertraiken.com/pictures/1073.jpg

Thanks electricsound, should this boosts/dips be sharp or broad peaks?

i personally use a relatively high/tight q for cuts and low/wide q for boosts. what eq are you using?

Well I use Cubase SX3 which has an integrated EQ for each track where you can control up to four cuts/boosts independently. I also have a very simple 6-band one that I downloaded for free. I also use Reason but not for EQ. Should I?

i've not used the reason EQ so i don't know sadly

What's the eq you posted upthread?

it's the neve 1073 plugin for the UAD dsp card

otherwise known as the 'make everything sound awesome' plugin

OK that looks really pro (expensive).