Beginners Guide to Mixing Vocals in Studio One 6 

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Couldn’t agree more. This completely changed things for me. Thank you

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This is so true. Layers, melody and performance is 70% of a good sounding vocal!

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Manually most of the time! Studio One is ARA compatible so VocAlign works great too

Yup! It’s for pitch correction! Melodyne essentials comes with Studio One Professional

It’s a stylistic choice! I prefer the aggressive one second. I want to control the peaks before doing anything else!

@@ProducingInTheBox Thanks Andrew. Another question not necessarily related to the video. Hopefully not a dumb question but I noticed on the vocal tracks looks like recorded in stereo ? Did the vocalist sing into 2 mics ?

@@sgg6927 nope! I have a stereo channel (for stereo plugins I might add) but have a mono input!

​@@sgg6927 FWIW it's pretty crazy that "some" rules don't seem to apply when mixing in the box. Stereo being one in particular. My Studio One DAW gets audio this way: live church sound to mono mic channels to the audio mixer, then from an aux master stereo mix to studio 68c USB interface, Studio One DAW, 1 dry stereo input that sends to a stereo FX channel where my surgical and broad EQs go to several serial compressors plus saturation and de-esser, and the original input 1/2 dry send to a Delay/Reverb and ducking compressor, and finally input 1/2 sends to a stereo widener with EQ, then the master bus with my meters and D16 Frontier limiter. My point is if you manipulate mono inputs correctly then you can get stereo out.

Using one compressor to mix lots of vocals won’t react the same way as 1 compressor and 1 vocal! I wanted the compression to be triggered ONLY by the individual tracks. And the bus “glues” things together!

@@ProducingInTheBoxMany thanks for the clear explanation, Bro~

You could try to run everything through a bus and it’ll work. But be aware that multiple tracks will affect the compression differently! Just keep that in mind!

Because I want some of that dry vocal hitting the reverb as well!

Sidechain compression is your best bet!

​@ProducingInTheBox what about automation of the send levels?

Yes...they're all stock plugins.

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I like to treat my vocal bus a little bit differently than the individual vocals! A little compression goes a long ways on entire bus because there’s just so much signal hitting that bus

@@ProducingInTheBox Maybe you address this in another video.... but would you mind elaborating on your vocal bus compression approach? e.g. ratio, att, rel, total reduction... thanks again for the great vid :)

This is a GREAT question! This is because all of the vocals together will increase the volume and affect the compression differently. If I wanted to compress them and EQ them all at once, I would’ve started right on the vocal bus! Because I want a little bit more control on how the compression hits the main vocal vs the harmonies and BGVs, I added them individually! After I do all that, I will add a compressor to the entire bus sometimes. Only compression a LITTLE bit! Thank you so much for this question!

@@ProducingInTheBox thank you for the answer 🙏

I was about to ask the same question?

@@Bashanvibe he answered the question 😉

In studio one I can separate them so if I make changed to the lead vocal it doesn’t change the plugins on the others! But yes I agree with you haha! I’ve been there

They were recorded mono. But when I bounced the stems they rendered in stereo. But nbd cause there’s no phasing issues yet haha

This are just the basics that you do on every vocal

@@rubenn7212 if u do all ur vocals like this they arent gna sound as good as they could but everybody has a different taste

@@slowmotionradio73 what would you change or add ?

@@rubenn7212 let me rewatch it and ill let u know i watched this a couple weeks ago dnt really remember but if ur asking cus u genuinley want to know ill do it

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