Is there a way to delay certain frequencies...

[Carbona]

....Once something has already been mixed? I've got songs mixed, but I don't have the original recordings, and I want to add a little delay in the vocal range without delaying the highs and lows...is this possible?

 

[indravayu]

....Once something has already been mixed? I've got songs mixed, but I don't have the original recordings, and I want to add a little delay in the vocal range without delaying the highs and lows...is this possible?

The Izotope Ozone plugin has a section where you can add a slight delay to certain freq. ranges s - but I am not sure if it's the kind of delay you are looking for.

- Chris

 

[mattamatta]

You can bring it into a multitrack setup, duplicate the track, and run one through some eq to cut out all but the frequencies you want, then put a delay after that eq filter, probably set all to wet, and mix that in with the original track.

Might be somewhat useful.

 

[Carbona]

Yup, I tried that way, but couldn't get the vocals to sound any better than a bad phone connection...it basically just added static to the mix.

 

[xstatic]

Hopefully you are aware of this, but delay on a whole mix, even in just certain frequency ranges, certainly won't make the vocals stand out. Dyanmic EQ'ing is waht you should be looking into, or multiband compression paired up with a decent parametric EQ. Delaying any frequencies will also highly affect other instruments. Typically it would just muck up the instruments which in turn would take attention away from the vocals.

 

[Davenhurst]

That's going to be a tough one.

You could spend many hours with a signal generator, maybe a vocoder and some delay and artificially reproduce the vocal frequencies you're after, then whack the lot into a multi-tracker and get mixing. Weird though.