I find it so diffuclt to gain stage before I clear my vocals, cause the boomy frequencies make the vocal so much louder. And after cleaning up, my gainstaging is messed up. Do you have any advice? :(
for gain staging, loudness should not be an issue, because you can simply turn up the level of your studio moniters or headphones to hear your tracks better, or put a limiter on the master track, as far as clean up eq after you do your eq, use the gain knob on your eq to simply level match the source sound, and you can see this here 08:56
I used a hi pass filter earlier when leveled the vocals on the ssl channel strip, and adding to many hi pass fiters can somtimes cause phase issues. My bad I should have mentioned that.
