The Hidden Sauce
How to Stack Vocal Harmonies (3rds, 5ths and Octaves)
Thirds for colour, fifths for size, octaves for lift. Here is how to pick the interval, keep every harmony inside the chord, and stop a four-part stack turning into mud.
How to Stack Vocal Harmonies (3rds, 5ths and Octaves)
Thirds for colour, fifths for size, octaves for lift. Here is how to pick the interval, keep every harmony inside the chord, and stop a four-part stack turning into mud.
How to Tune Vocals So Nobody Can Tell
Invisible tuning is not a gentler setting. It is correcting where a note sits while leaving alone how the singer got there.
How to Tune Vocals So Nobody Can Tell
Invisible tuning is not a gentler setting. It is correcting where a note sits while leaving alone how the singer got there.
The Vocal Throw: How Producers Make One Word Fly
A throw is one word sent into a long delay while everything else stays dry. Here is the send automation, the feedback settings and the word choice that makes it...
The Vocal Throw: How Producers Make One Word Fly
A throw is one word sent into a long delay while everything else stays dry. Here is the send automation, the feedback settings and the word choice that makes it...
Why Autotune Makes Your Esses Worse and How to Fix It
A pitch corrector has to guess the note of a sound that has no note, and an S pays for it. De-ess 2-4 dB before the tuner and the artefact...
Why Autotune Makes Your Esses Worse and How to Fix It
A pitch corrector has to guess the note of a sound that has no note, and an S pays for it. De-ess 2-4 dB before the tuner and the artefact...
Clip Gain Riding: Fix Vocal Levels Before You Compress
Clip gain riding is the unglamorous move that makes every plugin after it work. Ride the vocal into a 3 dB window with the compressor bypassed, and it suddenly only...
Clip Gain Riding: Fix Vocal Levels Before You Compress
Clip gain riding is the unglamorous move that makes every plugin after it work. Ride the vocal into a 3 dB window with the compressor bypassed, and it suddenly only...
How to Make Vocals Sound Lofi On Purpose
Lofi is not one plugin, it is four separate kinds of damage. Here is what each one does, the settings that work, and why degrading only one of them separates...
How to Make Vocals Sound Lofi On Purpose
Lofi is not one plugin, it is four separate kinds of damage. Here is what each one does, the settings that work, and why degrading only one of them separates...