Tinny/Can sounding vocals?

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appledapple

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Hi!

I am new so please be gentle if this is an old one :)

How do you clean up a vocal that sounds like it was recorded in a can/tinny sounding?

Thanks in advance!
 
You can't clean it up. To the computer, the "tinny" sound **is** the recording, and there's no "untinny" version buried inside it. The only solution is to re-record the vocals.

Sometimes you can EQ a track to minimize its problems. I recorded my band with a Korg D888 and got good results, but the Shure SM58 Beta sounded like what it is...an inexpensive dynamic mic. I boosted a bit of the upper range of the vocal, and got an acceptable sound, but not one I'd be happy with for more than a rehearsal recording.

Tinnyness is harder to deal with, because it is probably a sign that a lot of the frequencies that you expect to hear in a vocal are not there. There's no natural sounding way to add them in after the fact.
 
AD?...please tell us what you are using, and how you're using it.????
 
I'm using Adobe Audition 1.5 I am trying to mix someone across the oceans vocal with mine and her vocals are the tinny ones.
 
appledapple said:
Hi!

I am new so please be gentle if this is an old one :)

How do you clean up a vocal that sounds like it was recorded in a can/tinny sounding?

Thanks in advance!
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STOP USING THAT AKG 3000B & FLING IT IN THE BIN SO NO OTHER UNFORTUNATE SOUL WILL BE CURSED WITH IT!!!

little joke, sorry (my first LDC that I saved up for a long long time ago & bought because of the spendid advertising campaign & found that my sm-57 was a kizzilian times better for everything) I've never been able to trust my own instincs since :eek:
 
lpdeluxe said:
You can't clean it up...
Tinnyness is harder to deal with, because it is probably a sign that a lot of the frequencies that you expect to hear in a vocal are not there.
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Exactly. You can't add frequencies that weren't recorded in the first place. Either she sent you an altered version of what she recorded (in which case, get her to send you the original), or ask her to record it again using a better mic.
 
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