Any Tips on How too edit low bass vocals

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Do any of you guys have any tips on editing low bass vocals? I've been trying to boost low bass in a way that will blend with the music and also hide the voice flaws that are often present in really low bass. I'm using Cubase LE 5 and I was wondering if my program would have a tool that would do a 'smudge' effect for bass that has minor defects as a way of hiding them.

Just looing for some helpful tips from you'all...
 
Think you need to get a little more specific.
What kind of defects? Pitch, too dry/doesn't blend?
If you want to blur use short delays. 10-30ms or stays below the range when it starts sounding like an echo depending on the level. Stay mono (behind the voc) to add some thickness or start to pan the delays to get some spread. Detune the delays +/- a bit to make pitch vague..

Interesting your adding lows. Often it's the low pitch/thick tones that make them harder to articulate.
 
mixsit said:
Think you need to get a little more specific.
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Agreed, Do you have a sample we can listen to so we can try to hear what you are talking about?

mixsit said:
Interesting your adding lows. Often it's the low pitch/thick tones that make them harder to articulate.
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Agreed as well, often with the lows your going to get pretty ununderstandable sound. Are you sure you are not wanting to boost some mids? Just because he is a bass singer doesnt mean he is really hitting the low lows. Human voices are roughly in the range of 80 Hz to 1100 Hz. However there will be overtones that will reach in both directions.
 
I hear what sounds like something way too compact/controlled to be just vocal down there (like a key bass blended in?
But again, not sure what you're asking or want to do.
 
I know what you mean; you almost can't tell that it is a human voice, but for the sound I'm trying to get I actually want to have the low bass sounding like what you here in the clip above. Like I said, in some cases it can serve as a cover-up for dry bass or minor vioce flaws.
 
Try making a duplicate of the vocal track.
EQ all the highs out then limit/compress the balls out of it.

Play the original track at normal level, then gradually fade in the new one bring in some more bass.

If you set it up just right, it'll inject some balls into quieter passages and not so much when the vocals start to soar.
 
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