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carvin
New member
I am having trouble with mixing vocals. It sounds as if they are not connected to the song. Any suggestions
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mallcore pop
Hard Nipples!!!
Add a bit of delay or reverb, maybe a little light compression to tighten them up.
Good luck!
Good luck!
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NYMorningstar
Recording Modus Operandi
Hey Carvin, welcome to the BBS. What does "not connected to the song" mean? Give a little backround of your project, your recording techniques and equipment, and you will have a much better chance of receiving info that will be of use to you.
Track Rat
Just Your Average Sized Member
I'll go out on a limb here and say compression would be the first step and reverb/delay to taste.
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baba
New member
hi,
I'm not sure what you mean by 'not connected' but here is a little trick I often use that works when the effect plugins seem to not get it.
Manning1 posts some great articles on this board so I copied this technique from one of his posts since it explains in detail how to do this:
2. on vocals for vintage. try doubling your vocals ie : singing your
vocals twice, and heres a twist, and requires LOTS OF EXPERIMENTATION.
take a vocal track and copy it . then slide the copy a few
milliseconds forward in time. on the original vocal track now
cut the lows a bit (EXPERIMENT !) , and on the copy cut the highs
but boost the low mids by various amounts from small to a bit more.
LET ME EXPLAIN. the overall purpose here is to delay the LOWS(BASS) just a bit. THIS ILLUSION can add warmth to a vocal track if its done correctly.
i believe from what i hear some console vendors have
experimented with similar concepts in recording consoles.
the concept seems to thicken the track and affects psychoacoustically how the listeners ear hears the song.
but remember we are talking about very small millisecond amounts.
the overall concept i call "delaying the bass".
try it on your next song !
you can try similar concepts on guitar tracks as well.
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alright, that was Manning1's advice! when I use this trick, I never pan the 2 vocal tracks totally left and right, it seems to widen the stereo image to much. try panning one a little left and the other a little right until you get the sound you want.
hope this helps! keep reading
baba
I'm not sure what you mean by 'not connected' but here is a little trick I often use that works when the effect plugins seem to not get it.
Manning1 posts some great articles on this board so I copied this technique from one of his posts since it explains in detail how to do this:
2. on vocals for vintage. try doubling your vocals ie : singing your
vocals twice, and heres a twist, and requires LOTS OF EXPERIMENTATION.
take a vocal track and copy it . then slide the copy a few
milliseconds forward in time. on the original vocal track now
cut the lows a bit (EXPERIMENT !) , and on the copy cut the highs
but boost the low mids by various amounts from small to a bit more.
LET ME EXPLAIN. the overall purpose here is to delay the LOWS(BASS) just a bit. THIS ILLUSION can add warmth to a vocal track if its done correctly.
i believe from what i hear some console vendors have
experimented with similar concepts in recording consoles.
the concept seems to thicken the track and affects psychoacoustically how the listeners ear hears the song.
but remember we are talking about very small millisecond amounts.
the overall concept i call "delaying the bass".
try it on your next song !
you can try similar concepts on guitar tracks as well.
============>
alright, that was Manning1's advice! when I use this trick, I never pan the 2 vocal tracks totally left and right, it seems to widen the stereo image to much. try panning one a little left and the other a little right until you get the sound you want.
hope this helps! keep reading
baba
Son of Mixerman
Mix Junior
carvin said:
What kinda music are you talking about?
Like Track Rat said, alot of times compression helps glue it back in...if.
If there are alot of acoustic instruments you will need reverb to glue it into the space, if its like what I did yesterday, you have 2 compressors working overtime to keep it crushed like the guitars, Bass..etc. It depends on the context of the voice.
SoMm