4 New Tricks for Cleaner Vocals 

yo that detuned soothe trick is big brain af

Yes, not enough “on-off” comparisons to hear the difference. Thank you, though. Appreciate the tutorials, keep ‘em comin’, Gianni❤

This is so brilliant in vocal mixing musically

Some really useful tricks again, thank you very much. Just a quick note to your otherwise amazing presentation: I would prefer if you could do the comparison switch one or two times more often, so there is more time to focus on these sometimes subtle enhancements.

Dude, this video came at the perfect time

The Soothe2 detune trick really cleaned up a vocal I am working on currently......Thanks!

That first trick with Soothe: smart!

That soothe trick wasn't subtle at all. Sounded great when you put it on. Thanks!

Great tutorials, I wish you'ed adjust the before and after listening time to longer sections. This vocals first line tonally a lot more full bodied than the after coming line that sounds very thin in comparison. The difference is so big that it's hard to hear what actually is happening. I find the best before and afters are those where the exact same line is looped between before and afters. You will get all the newbees to hear the subtileties a lot easier. But still top notch tutorials though🙌 Thanks for all the goodies!

Always look forward to these next-=level techniques.

for the first Trick you can also use Scaler EQ for this trick if you don't have the cash for Soothe 2

I love your videos and I want more vocal tutorials but also a in-depth sound design series I feel like you could teach me that better than anyone

9 years into professional music production and mixing 1. soothe technique I'm like "whatttttttttttt?????????????????" *brain melts*

Bless YT recommendation! Instantly subbed

thank you so much💟

Excellent!

soothe trick seems nice, i would give it a try

Great video

Yoooooo the detune trick 🤯 have to try and see that

Thanks. Best/Mathias

I don't see why using a detuned sidechain for soothe would be any good. As you showed, soothe reacts to the detuned frequencies and attenuates "resonances" in those areas, leaving the general vocal frequencies alone. So it basically attenuates more in the high end because the frequency differences are small compared to the bandwidth applied by soothe. Effectively this results in a duller tone which is audible in the video. Personally I would add a high-shelf afterwards to balance the tone out again. Why apply that "trick" for then?

De crackle also works great to get rid of wet mouth noises but like declick it’s demanding on the cpu.

Great use of the parallel compression! On the send of the main vocal do you mantain the reverb or just the clean vocal?

Ive did the p comp trick isolating the highs but never the mids like that, gonna give it a try

On the first trick, it might be interesting to use a mix of +50 cents and -50 cents (minus 3 decibels each) for the side-chain input. Or alternately, it could be interesting to subtract an auto-tuned version of the performance from the original and feed the delta into the side-chain. Maybe it'd be a smoother, less-jarring retuning?

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there’s a few problems on the soothe2 trick but it is a creative trick having a copy of the vocal which is identical will track the same issues the vocals track the same frequencies but just offset by +1 the duplicated sidechained input should have unipolar values and a way to decide how much the spread is what i suggest instead is having soothe2 in delta mode and dry/wetting it with the original signal, but to be honest as nice as it sounds in theory it will most likely sound like phased out dogshit best fix is just probably manually automating out problematic frequencies or putting it into melodyne to edit the harmonic levels

Unfortunately if you're not careful de-click removes fry, and in this example it does a bit at the end. In my experience it's best to select problem spots only in the RX standalone

Have you tried assigning RX as your audio editor in Logic? You can then use SHIFT W to pull any region into RX and when you’re done processing the audio you go into FILE and OVERWRITE the file. I’ve never had any latency issues with that.

Could I use rvox for the side chained mid frequencies boost thing?

What’s an alternative to soothe?

My favourite compressor for transparent compression without much distortion is Toonboosters compr 4.

What is the point of that soothe technique? You're tucking away resonances where there aren't any. If you had stuck a formant filter on up a 5th or tuned the trigger vocal down an octave at least it would correlate with the vocal being treated in some way. I'm going to try it, maybe I'll eat my words..

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I can't compare something which was not level matched.

The first trick is the dumbest thing I saw… what’s the point of trying to fix problems by not trying to fix them. Most of the problematic frequencies that need to be attenuated are created by the pitch of the vocal recording.