The Hidden Sauce
Tempo-Syncing Vocal Effects: Delay and Reverb Math
One formula covers every delay time, predelay and reverb decay in your session. Here it is, with the numbers worked out at common tempos and the one-bar decay rule.
Tempo-Syncing Vocal Effects: Delay and Reverb Math
One formula covers every delay time, predelay and reverb decay in your session. Here it is, with the numbers worked out at common tempos and the one-bar decay rule.
How to Handle Breaths in Vocals Without Killing the Human
Breaths are not noise, they are timing. Set every one of them to a fixed 12-18 dB under the words instead of deleting them, and the vocal keeps its phrasing...
How to Handle Breaths in Vocals Without Killing the Human
Breaths are not noise, they are timing. Set every one of them to a fixed 12-18 dB under the words instead of deleting them, and the vocal keeps its phrasing...
How to Make Vocals Cut Through Without Turning Them Up
A buried vocal is a masking problem, not a level problem. Here is the three-move order that makes a vocal cut through at the fader setting it already had.
How to Make Vocals Cut Through Without Turning Them Up
A buried vocal is a masking problem, not a level problem. Here is the three-move order that makes a vocal cut through at the fader setting it already had.
Stereo and Ping-Pong Delay for Vocal Width
Two different delay times, one per side, give you width the lead vocal never has to pay for. Here are the note values, the filters and the mono check.
Stereo and Ping-Pong Delay for Vocal Width
Two different delay times, one per side, give you width the lead vocal never has to pay for. Here are the note values, the filters and the mono check.
Carving Space for the Vocal: EQ the Beat, Not the Vocal
If the vocal is buried, turning it up makes it loud and still buried. Cut 2 dB out of the beat at 3 kHz instead, and sidechain the cut so...
Carving Space for the Vocal: EQ the Beat, Not the Vocal
If the vocal is buried, turning it up makes it loud and still buried. Cut 2 dB out of the beat at 3 kHz instead, and sidechain the cut so...
Cleaning Up Vocal Tracks: Gates, Strip Silence and Breaths
Most vocal cleanup sounds worse than the noise it removed. Set the gate range to -12 dB instead of infinity, keep noise reduction under 6 dB, and turn breaths down...
Cleaning Up Vocal Tracks: Gates, Strip Silence and Breaths
Most vocal cleanup sounds worse than the noise it removed. Set the gate range to -12 dB instead of infinity, keep noise reduction under 6 dB, and turn breaths down...