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Subject: Effects on vocals
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Original Message 1/5 24-Aug-00 @ 05:04 AM - Effects on vocals
Does anyone have some advice on how to get good effects on a main vocal track.
Things like whether to use a mono/stereo track, order of insert effects in a chain, use of Reverb (and good parameter settings), etc in a bus configuration.
Anybody...Im pretty much a novice but would like to step up to semi-pro..hack
Thanks.
Message 2/5 24-Aug-00 @ 02:06 PM - RE: Effects on vocals
so, getting a decent mic, building a decent pop sheild to get crispy tops without sibilance and also to avoid popping from lo-frequency explosives...
then a decent mic pre-amp, mebbe a little compression just to hot it up... then it's down to the placement in the mix & eq, followed/jointly with reverb settings etc - the reverb wants to emphasise the fact the vocal is in a space, but you dont want to over emphasise the lower & midrange frequencies as then it get's too 'deep' into the reverb feild and can also sound boomy - so usually if reverb is heard on the more glossy thin top-end frequencies of the vocal this is enuff when heard to psychologically suggest and sound like the vocal is in a reverb feild without having to suffer any unwanted reverb artifacts....
next delay - IF you add any pre-delay or actual de4lay, make sure the tempo fits the track, the delay taps MUST compliement the tempo & feel of the track as nothing thrwos it worse than a delay with the wrong timing... make the delay subtle to 'fill-out' the vocal... mebbe 'gloss' the vocal up with enhancers or some subtle chorus (also good to help shakier pitching problems) -
but, sitting it in the mix is the overall onjective, and for e3xample some folks spend loadsacash on expensive reverbs that sound awesome IN ISOLATION - but never really sit the vocals right in a mix, as the reverb is so intrusive it sounds wrong - the basic reverb on old SPX90's is still used alot as a reverb for vox, as it is VERY good to sit vocals well, where more lusher 'better' reverbs dont get that always... so overall - use your ears first.
Message 3/5 24-Aug-00 @ 02:29 PM - RE: Effects on vocals
The one I have right now is a rather cheap Shure mic labeled BG1.1. Would this one be considered ok ?
Message 4/5 26-Aug-00 @ 01:26 PM - RE: Effects on vocals
Message 5/5 29-Aug-00 @ 12:40 AM - RE: Effects on vocals
Problem I have with getting the vox to sit in the mix is getting the hi-end right. The audio always seems to be bass heavy that I can't eq out. Add a little reverb, as k suggests, but it reverbs the low-end as well, and that just muddies it up. Maybe I'll try another vocal track, with everything below 600hz filtered out and the reverb on THAT track. You know, throw a little doubling in there. Just a thought - what do you think?
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