Need help mixing these vocals?

[Seafroggys]

Just recorded a female soprano over a rock-esque song, and I'm having the damnest time trying to mix her in. I can never get the vocals to sit right. She wants to redo the vocals at some point in the future so this may be a worthless activity, but I want to at least get this right so it makes the next session a bit easier.

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For what I have running on the vox right now, if I recall correctly htis is my chain:

UAD Pultec-Pro....boost at 5 khz, dip at 2 khz (the "guitar" is strong at 2khz and they were interfering too much)
UAD LA-2a.....slammed almost all the way up
Electri-Q......high pass filter at 150 hz or so
UAD De-esser at 8.5 khz or so

Sent to a UAD EMT 140 reverb

 

[Flubly]

I'm not sure if I'm missing something and being stupid, but I don't hear any vocals in the song that link goes to: "Now Is The Time".

 

[Seafroggys]

Shit I'm a moron, I uploaded an old old instrumental mix. Should be updated now.

 

[jerberson12]

The strings and other instruments are fighting with the vocals. You made the intruments more brighter than the vocal. It is supposed to be the other way around.
You may have cut down too much on your de esser. You only use de esser if needed, the comp may have de ess it a little bit. You need to brighten up the vocals. I usually dont cut on the high freq. I usually cut the middle and the bass of course.
Also easy on the vocal reverb.

 

[Seafroggys]

Think you're right about that, didn't think of that. The upper end of the strings and the vocals clash like no other. Tried to go for 'strong' reverb because of the tone of the vocals but you're right that it may have been too much. Thanks for that assistance.

 

[Seafroggys]

Finally got a chance to get into my studio for a remix, link updated (may have to clear cache though)

Removed high end bump from strings, added a bit of 16khz to the vocals with the pultec, dialed out a bit of reverb and bumped up the fader 1-2 dB. Minor touches but I think it came out much better.