BTW, any suggestions on smoothing the vocals out without making sound shittier than they do already? i admittedly have only OK mic control, and much less so when i start belting it out. i do stay back from the mic to hopefully reduce sibilance, but my style is kind of unrefined, and seemingly with a fine line between "delivering with power" and "just plain yelling". consequently, my levels are kind of all over the place. i am working on it, though!
i have two compressors on the lead vocal--- one is low ratio/fast attack for a saturation of sorts (which usually works pretty good for me), and the other is at more like 4:1, but with a more relaxed attack. i know this is probably bass-ackwards to some folks, but i have had at least decent results with this method in the past. not exactly hi-fi, but it seems to control dynamics without mooshing the consonant sounds so bad. intelligible vocals are very important to me, even if they end up being a little hot in the mix. i wish i could master the "motown" parallel compression thing, but making it sound natural has been sort of elusive to me.
also, the background vox. like a queefe, i mixed them to a stereo track to make mixing easier. heh, yeah right. i realize that they sound different solo'd than they do with rest of the track--- of course, i sub-mixed them without the music. i tried mashing the crap out of them, but it sounded terrible. i still have the individual tracks, so i guess a remix is the best answer. the falsetto harmonies are way too loud IMO, while the "whispered" stuff is just lost.
anyway, feel free to comment, or to tell me i suck or whatever, lol.
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. im tryin, bobby!
