vocals EQ or no? no one seems to know, suprisingly?

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Hey guys just help me out with what you would do... currently produce hip hop music, and i recorded this one new dude, an hes the bomb, and after the whole mix down everything was amazing. I used a good compressor, normalized, voice doubling, panning effects, but in the end compared to some of the more professional artists, it seems like his vocals need to get a little dryer, an not sound like he was right up to the mic, which he wasn't it just seems like on words like co(min) MIN in the word when the volume of the song is loud, seems to have some louder effect. i need the vocals a bit dryer it seems, EQ??? thanks fer yer input...
 
It wouldn't be uncommon to have to go in on phrases, words of even down to parts of words with volume automation to finesse stuff like that. More so if it's correcting mic and singing technique.
Not sure what you mean about dryer'. Typically it's less effect/room or doubling. I'd think 'up on the mic' to be dryer normally (at least more intimate) than back off the mic.
 
midwesttribune said:
Hey guys just help me out with what you would do... currently produce hip hop music, and i recorded this one new dude, an hes the bomb, and after the whole mix down everything was amazing. I used a good compressor, normalized, voice doubling, panning effects, but in the end compared to some of the more professional artists, it seems like his vocals need to get a little dryer, an not sound like he was right up to the mic, which he wasn't it just seems like on words like co(min) MIN in the word when the volume of the song is loud, seems to have some louder effect. i need the vocals a bit dryer it seems, EQ??? thanks fer yer input...
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Sounds like a compression problem. Also, can you explain why you normalize the vocal track?
 
midwesttribune said:
Hey guys just help me out with what you would do... currently produce hip hop music, and i recorded this one new dude, an hes the bomb, and after the whole mix down everything was amazing. I used a good compressor, normalized, voice doubling, panning effects, but in the end compared to some of the more professional artists, it seems like his vocals need to get a little dryer, an not sound like he was right up to the mic, which he wasn't it just seems like on words like co(min) MIN in the word when the volume of the song is loud, seems to have some louder effect. i need the vocals a bit dryer it seems, EQ??? thanks fer yer input...
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If you want it dryer you need better sound proofing. Closer to the mic means dryer, further away means more room ambience (wetter).

Eck
 
ecktronic said:
If you want it dryer you need better sound proofing. Closer to the mic means dryer, further away means more room ambience (wetter).

Eck
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He said it already sounds too close to the mic, and too wet. All the compression and normalizing is doing is bringing it farther up front and INCREASING all the ambient noise, isn't it???? Room treatment would help, but I'll bet you he has compressed the crap out of it - especially since he normalized the vocal track. Why??!?!?!?!?!??? :D
 
i think im going to lay off the compressors a little bit, and also when i said normalize i meant like at the louder areas of the vocals i dimmed them down a bit and brought the softer up so its not up an down up an down with the vocals.
 
That's what the compressor is for. You don't need to normalize your tracks. Take NL5's advice.
 
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