Best vocal plug ins

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As a recording engineer from the old school of tape and analog mixing can some one tell me some of the best vocal plug ins and techniques to achieve a modern vocal sound in the final mix. I am ok working with artists and recording a sweet sound, but final polishing like stutter, pitch changing and frequency sweeping are new to me. Thank you. :)
 
What genre are you working in?
I don't use any stuttering techniques/gimmicks.
I do use pitch correction where necessary; That's either PT elastic audio or Waves Tune.

Other than that it's eq/verb/comp 90% of the time. The other 10% has delay. ;)
 
I'm with Steen. Your terms are actually new to me. lol! Please explain more as to what you are looking to do with the vocals, and what genre. :)
 
Thanks for your interest. I am thinking Pop Asia style or Gangdam Style. I know how to record everything from folk to opera classic style with reverbs, delays or natural church type reverbs, just modern vocal tricks like tuning up and down on the run, frequency shifting etc. Listen to the vocal sound on this. HIT-5 - Running (MV) - YouTube
 
Here is a quick video about Waves 'Morphoder' that might lead you in the right direction.

There are many product's that will give results like you are looking for (like the video you posted uses).

'Vocoder' is the search term you should probably use to Google software for this effect.
 
Thanks that really helps, also I noticed Waves Supertap also has a nice vocal exciter preset that would be of use. I use Cubase 6.5 so no prob using these.
 
Russ56 said:
Thanks that really helps, also I noticed Waves Supertap also has a nice vocal exciter preset that would be of use. I use Cubase 6.5 so no prob using these.
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Cool man. Good luck on your 'pop' mixing exploration. :)

I have been there myself. Love the basic bass/drums/guitar/vocal, but there is some fun in venturing out of our elements. In the end, it is what the client wants/needs. I end up liking almost everything I have messed with, even if out of the genre I listen to.

Wait, all I listen to anymore is what I work on... lol
 
I've seen some vocal stutters and such added in mixing. It was much easier than I would have thought. Basically just copy and paste the start of the word you are wanting to stutter and then move around to adjust timing.

The person I was watching was also doing things like doing the stutter with automated panning so it would bounce between speakers. Took him about 15 seconds to add each one.
 
Who needs stutter plug-ins when you can get Roger Daltry?
 
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