making vocals sound front.

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Can someone tell me how to make some of my background voice sound right to the front? I plan to use this background voice panned to the left and make it sound as if the sound is near and front. Get it? Or I am confusing you guys?
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Nagaba
 
Yo Nagaba: How are things in Franklin Park, Il? I grew up in Chicago.

With regard to your question of UP FRONT VOCALS:

I don't know what you use to record but, #1, you might look into a mic preamp to boost the headroom of your vocal (s).

Next, you might try recording a vocal on TWO TRACKS, or if in digital, you can bounce a one track vocal and make it two tracks. Thus, you will have two vocal tracks to tweak and "push up front" during mixdown.

Watch out for using FX for the background or using too much FX for the background/or vocal. This will give you a rumbling echo but you'll lose the "up front" quality.

Lastly, you will need a good vocal mic to achieve all of the above.

Keep twiddling those dials and I used to work at the Como Inn @546 N. Milwaukee Ave. And, man, that's a long time ago but I'll bet the food is still great.

Green Hornet
 
You don't say what equipment you're using. I've had great success with computer based recording using CakeWalk FX3 Soundstage to adjust vocal placement in a virtual room. This piece of software does an exellent job on mic placement, performer placement, accoustics, echo & reverb.
 
Como Inn... great food. Were you from da South Side or da North Side, my friend?
 
The best way is not to add too much reverb.The dryer the signal the more upfront it will sound. The more reverb you have the deeper it will sound and the farther away it will sound. Another good method is to compress the vocal track so the vocals are a constant volume source. Play with your EQ and add nmore highs or remove the low's. It may sound brittle by itself but in the mix it may be perfect.

Good luck!!
 
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