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I was listening to the Beatles "Hey Jude" yesterday, and thought "Man those drums sound like they have mufflers on them" - because they have mufflers on them. :D I found a Waves plugin I didn't know I had called "Vocal Bender" and you can get some pretty wild results with it. I found a preset...

Back in the heady days of the start of HomeRec, following the invasion of internet trolls, a branch of home recordists broke from the pack seeking a kinder gentler version where trolls would be less welcome and called that site "Recording Project" - affectional known as "RP" where this remained...

I did wind up splitting the track and adding an effect - slight thickening. Plus I pulled WAY back on the limiting. I moved my studio recently into a more muffled room - and so I'd been hitting the volume harder. Wrong. Oops. :D

In the vocal, Dave?

Good note on the echoes. I'll attend. I wondered myself. I'm still adjusting to the changes myself. I think it's better than it was.

Circled back around to this one, and again - thanks to the folks here for the thoughts regarding better framing the lead vocal. I decided to employ a detuning/doubling/ADT effect on the lead. You'll hear the difference immediately. Does it better suit the piece?

Plus I tend to loathe having to fiddle with all the automation points later if I decide to ultimately move to a different gain stage scheme. I then just delete the whole envelope rather than fuss w/ it. It's easier just to adjust the gain, set, and forget.

George Martin had a production trick where he'd layer and effect different passages in a song to lend subtle production lift to sections. It could be quite effective. Putting different parts on different tracks and making them sound slightly different (for the same singer) is the easiest method...

Yeah - they're 3db too loud in the quiet passages but when I roll the track back down, they wind up diving under the chorus vocals too far. It's not hard to automate it. I'm just wondering if I can maybe get away with a different technique by separating the parts on different tracks etc ...

I am in similar frame of thought. The issue is the in/out of the music bed makes it hot then buried - then hot - then buried. I'm playing w/ several factors at the moment ... trying to gain pinpoint clarity.

I've come around to heavily effect VERY dry sounding vocals. I'm mixing these days, Dave - as if the singer is sounding like they are standing right in front of me in my speaker. I want the performances to be clear. I LOVE all the rest of the instrumentation, but time after time I am reminded -...

Me and a friend doing a song I finally got around to reworking some nuance parts that I remembered I always wanted to change. Any/all comments welcome.

Nice meandering mood song - but this leans into ambient stuff ... there's not much more than floating along w/ it as background music. Mix is fine.

LOVE the time signature! Nothing is "wrong" w/ the mix. I'd probably have mixed the vocals more forward - but that's MY style. It sounds like it was mixed by a guitarist. Not a crit - an "observation". :D Great texturing in this - keeps the listener engaged. I REALLY want those vocals more...

While at it, pull back the "stereo" effect on the vocal and get the singer focused center stage forward. It sounds like half the vocals are rear left of the stage and the other half are front forward right. It puts the main vocals in disparate time zones. Get it all cohesively in the middle and...

I'm a bit pitch sensitive - and some of the higher one "strained credibility". :D Nice groove. Mix is really quite good and balanced for what the piece is - but some of the notes just need to be hit a little more on point.

I'd been listening a lot to Tom Petty mixes a lot recently and the vocals are right there as the main focus. These vocals ARE the song, and yet all the instruments are in the way in front of them. This is a good mix. But I'd bring the vocals more out in front of the instruments.

That's like me down in the 200 hz range, but kind of the opposite. I had tubes in my eardrums to drain them as a kid, and there's a hole in my hearing in that range resultant. So I tend to overdo the low end to compensate - which I also realize, so I over compensate in the other direction. :D...

Agreed. Although I missed it a mix time - and I've not yet circled back to correct, I believe what folks are getting at is the vocal sounds a bit layered on top of the song, rather than embedded in the song - and I think that's my preference for rather dry vocals coming into play. In other...

Big time seventies era writing. Good thoughts - particularly regarding introduction of the bgvs earlier. @Trojka added a bunch of similar earlier embellishments to a recent piece ... where I'd left it stripped - and it was exactly the right call. I lean towards a "less is more" bent in my...