How do you treat a Shaky/Wobbly Vocal take in post production?

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Hey everyone! Newbie here in audio recording. I’d love to get your thoughts on a vocal take of mine:
Raw Vox Take

I’ve noticed my voice tends to sound shaky, especially on sustained notes. If you were mixing this kind of take, how would you approach it?

  • Would you use Melodyne (or another tuning app) to smooth out the wobbly parts?
  • Would you leave it as is and just mix around it?
  • or does this kind of vocal performance on audio recording normal or acceptable?
  • Or would you ask the vocalist to re-record the part?
Any feedback or advice would be super appreciated. Thanks!
 
silentfall10 said:
Hey everyone! Newbie here in audio recording. I’d love to get your thoughts on a vocal take of mine:
Raw Vox Take

I’ve noticed my voice tends to sound shaky, especially on sustained notes. If you were mixing this kind of take, how would you approach it?

  • Would you use Melodyne (or another tuning app) to smooth out the wobbly parts?
  • Would you leave it as is and just mix around it?
  • or does this kind of vocal performance on audio recording normal or acceptable?
  • Or would you ask the vocalist to re-record the part?
Any feedback or advice would be super appreciated. Thanks!
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You doubled your post.
 
Not at a place where I can listen to the clip I'm afraid.

The sort of snarky, flip, but honestly probably best answer here is "hit delete, then practice and re-record so it's not shaky." That's probably best practice but maybe still not super helpful.

Is your issue pitch wobbliness, or volume wobbliness? If the former I guess yeah you can try some sort of auto-tune apporoach though I'd really advocate for practicing your pitch control and just accepting it'll be a little while before your pitch stabilizes.

If it's volume, again... this can be practiced, but careful use of compression (and in particular, I like parallel compression here - taking your vocal track, duplicating it, and then absolutely smashing the copy with a compressor or limiter than mixing it behind the primary vocal far enough that it "fills out" the weaker amplitude parts a little more without destroying the dynamics of the original) can definitely help.
 
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