The Hidden Sauce
How to Kill Plosives at the Source
A plosive is moving air, not sound, so you beat it with geometry rather than EQ. The setup that stops it, and the fix for the ones that got through.
How to Kill Plosives at the Source
A plosive is moving air, not sound, so you beat it with geometry rather than EQ. The setup that stops it, and the fix for the ones that got through.
How to Make Vocals Wide Without Losing the Center
Real doubles beat any stereo widener. Keep the lead mono and centred, build the width around it, and test everything in mono before it reaches a phone speaker.
How to Make Vocals Wide Without Losing the Center
Real doubles beat any stereo widener. Keep the lead mono and centred, build the width around it, and test everything in mono before it reaches a phone speaker.
Vocal Presets vs Vocal Chains: Are Presets Worth It?
A preset is a vocal chain with the reasons deleted. Here is when a preset pack is worth the money, when it will fight your voice, and how to tell...
Vocal Presets vs Vocal Chains: Are Presets Worth It?
A preset is a vocal chain with the reasons deleted. Here is when a preset pack is worth the money, when it will fight your voice, and how to tell...
The Air Band: How to Add Expensive Top End to Vocals
Air is a gentle high shelf at 10-16 kHz doing 1-3 dB, added after de-essing. If the esses come back, make the shelf dynamic instead of de-essing harder.
The Air Band: How to Add Expensive Top End to Vocals
Air is a gentle high shelf at 10-16 kHz doing 1-3 dB, added after de-essing. If the esses come back, make the shelf dynamic instead of de-essing harder.
Transient Shaper on Vocals: Get Consonants Back After Compression
A transient shaper puts back the consonants your compressor flattened, without adding the brightness an exciter would. Here is where it goes and how much attack to use.
Transient Shaper on Vocals: Get Consonants Back After Compression
A transient shaper puts back the consonants your compressor flattened, without adding the brightness an exciter would. Here is where it goes and how much attack to use.
Gospel Vocal Chain: Dynamics That Survive a Full Choir
A gospel lead can move 25 dB between a verse and a shout. Here is the chain that holds that range without flattening it, and the pre-chain move that makes...
Gospel Vocal Chain: Dynamics That Survive a Full Choir
A gospel lead can move 25 dB between a verse and a shout. Here is the chain that holds that range without flattening it, and the pre-chain move that makes...