Big Sound For Vocals On Their Own?

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TripleM said:
You've received a lot of good advice. I'll throw out one more idea - stereo delay. You need to be careful with it because it can really screw up phasing if over used. But if you don't go overboard, it can help make something sound bigger. I really like it for something like a guitar riff. Might work for a vocal too in some situations.
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Thats what I was going to suggest - just 7 - 13 milliseconds on one channel can really widen the vocals.
 
I like this effect- it's a lot like chorus, but less gritty: Duplicate your vocals, Take an autotuner to one of them, and detune it by very little. Your vocals will thicken up right away, and there'll be no weird delays on consonants. Add a third and detune it a little more for even thicker effect.
 
Can you post a rough recording of what you have so that we can hear your concept, instead of using our burnt out imaginations...TV...TV... BEER...TV.
 
m.g. eddie said:
Can you post a rough recording of what you have so that we can hear your concept, instead of using our burnt out imaginations...TV...TV... BEER...TV.
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Nope! Just go with this instead .... BEER .... TV .... BEER .... BEER. Then you'll get it. :D
 
Hey dude.

Yeah, I've been trying to nut out nice sounding vocals for a while too. I've been trying to make the cleanest vocal recording, with good level, into a vocal mic (Rode NT1A) and my best efforts still seem to sound flat and lifeless compared to any recording you point at.

I always have to remind myself that there is a tonne of serious knowledge that I don't have regarding technique, frequencies, "the whole industry" etc and really are just trying to gain a bit of info from the forum here to help push experimentation in a different direction.

The guys here are great but really, how much can some of the pro's here pass on to someone like me who doesn't have any serious background knowledge. (You know, an in depth idea of which frequency does what to which type of sound, which I imagine the pro's would know straight off)

I recently had a win with my vocal sound and managed to fatten them up without really changing the overall sound of them, and I'll tell you what I did - but remember, I'm an unskilled engineer stumbling around in the dark and if there better advice out there, take it.

I took the original mono signal, split it, panned one left and applied 30ms delay, panned one right and applied 70ms delay, then blended the original back in so that it was the majority of the signal.

Then to that original centre (main) part, I messed with the EQ. The EQ was fairly important for taking out the muddy sound and controlling how much the "s"s and "t" stood out, sort of controlling clarity of vocals. Suddenly, the vocals didn't have to be louder than the rest ofthe music to be clearer.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
FM
 
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