working with vocals

[Sharmaji]

dude thank you so much for the little nuggets of wisdom. especially the bit about 1/8 delay. I remember you said you put 1/4 reverb on your default, but I've only ever seen it in ms (ableton stock). What verb do you use for this?

i like logic's space designer; easy to dial in good, realistic-sounding spaces w/o using a huge signal chain. from what i remember waves' IR verb is decent as well.

[BloomingAudioLife]

mad help, thanks!

[Sonika]

thank yooouuuu

[didi]

Cheers buddy, I'm mixing a couple of vocalled tracks at the moment, this is incredibly useful.

[Disco Nutter]

Cheers Sharma!

[symmetricalsounds]

Early on, i'm going for tone-- what balance of compression, eq, and maybe limting will get it feel the right way for the tune? I'm usually looking for it to feel like it lives in the center of the song, tonally fits it right-- if there's a lot of distorted guitars/synths going on, i don't want a clean celine dion-sounding vocal-- and i don't hear atifacts of overcompression, de-essing, eq.

exactly the same way i approach mixing the vocal, tone is everything. once you get that right everything else becomes comparatively simple.

it's all about being able to hear what's needed in the vocal and then translating that into the right combination of fx in the most efficient way. i had a session recently which really bought that home to me, a rap track and the rapper was purposefully going for a monotone delivery, but that can only go so far so i spent quite a few hours using different combos of fx to lift and breathe life back into it whilst still retaining that feel.

got a few tracks i've worked on for vocalists atm, will post them up when i'm allowed lol.