The Beatles' engineers would put a 10db boost at the 1K mark. That's so extreme but it sounded great and gave incredible clarity. It's cool to play it safe by keeping db changes within a 5db limit. But go crazy on a track or two and see if extreme things work.
Dude you have helped me so much! It's like you're the only one online that actually knows how to do this and how to address common home recording issues. Thanks!
When you start by saying to get the sound right at the source, then I know the rest of the tutorial will be filled with great info. Nothing worse then people skipping over the fundamentals. Great job on this video. Cheers
Very helpful and easy to understand. Your tutorials are extremely well made. Recording vocals can be tricky depending on how many instruments there are. It's definitely the part I have the most trouble with. The human voice is the most unique instrument and unpredictable instrument. I'm going to watch some more of your tutorials because I got a few good nuggets of information here. Thanks man!
This is the first time that i ve been told about vocal's EQ by a simple but absolutely useful way. Thank you Rob i will be keep waiting for your updates.
dude ur a god sent this is towards what i want thank you ill try to find what my sound sounds like. thank you for opening up and enlightening all of us by opening up.
yeah for sure after adding that 2.6k up to 3.5 i definitely need some of that it makes your "let it rain" more... uhhh tonality a subtle umhp but clearer yes
Oh wow I was gonna say it sounds like when 2.6k goes to 3.5 like u did your high got a bit higher and crisper and when you dropped your 200hz to 150 hz your lowest flucuation got lower and a bit basser so adding the two hmmmm givnig me a good start point.. idk really understand 80hz but thanks again dont wanna copy you 100 percent but for just sharing this w me and giving me a good start point on where can i improve my self expression. keep it up
I’m so grateful I ran into your video . Been watching other videos about EQ but couldn’t see the difference in my sound . But the subtractive EQ is definitely a game changer for me . I like my voice now on the track ! Lol ! Thank you so much 😊
You're using absolutely blessed preamps to record this video. I'm a minute in and noticing how perfectly dead quiet every pause in your speech is, and thinking about how hard that is to do with nothing but a noise gate.
I'm a fan of the channel, and have commented on a couple vids here. Agree with 4 of the tips entirely, not so much with the 300hz cut one. That's akin to thinning the fundamental so that the overtones stick out, it can work if you mess up with proximity effect, but if you do this on properly recorded vocals you run the risk of making them sound hollow :)
Take a listen to Neil Sedaka's, "Laughing In The Rain" The mix engineer left the entire low end of the lead vocals in. And there's a lot of low boom there and yet the mix sounds great and it was a big hit.
you are the best! very simple explanation! and most useful for people like me, just a beginner!, guitar player but not an music engineer , god bless you!
Yes struggling with cut as prior always boosted 2 to 4, will go back to boosting as I am losing depth or a vital part of the sound with the cut, the bass cut I do use, my desk bass cut plus a bit on the knob sounds good, good video thanks
No shade on this video but I'm so glad I never learned ProTools and had to endure this skeumorphic skittles spaceship phase of their UI. Would've been better had they just stayed looking like a grayscale spreadsheet.
Thanks for the tips was a great help. How do you EQ two tonal voice style in speaking ? One is normal speaking and other style is high intensity or loud speaking style ? How do you maintain considerable level by not sounding pierce even a person is loud.
Hey thanks for sharing this! Just to be clear though, by cut you mean lower the gain on that frequency? I looked "cut" up online and had a hard time finding it in the same context you were talking about. I was able to remix my EQ based on your tips and it helped a lot!
great tips thank you! =D i dont think when you put -10db that it sounds too unnatural but i seen alot of videos and they are in majority where people over do it and they sing under clear sky and sound like its been heavily mixed in a studio and way too much at that... depends on microphones but some effects are usually neccessary but all in good limit... people seem to like that over the top editing though these are some of the most viewed covers on yt so i guess it works on people i dont know lol
Good afternoon, I'm just asking how to eq a bass vocals in a choir. Coz I am a bass 2 singer. And when we used to learn a new piece, I just want to follow someone as a reference. So I want to hear bass more. Thankyouuu
Thanks. I having problems with harness. I looking for a little warm roundness in the vocals. I see a lot of today music are getting recorded without the large mixing consoles like the ssl. Not sure if it’s all my eq or maybe I need U87 ( or similar) and some tubes pres and compressors.
Hi! I have a question, what if the vocals need a lot more than 5 db boost in the 2-6 kHz range? Should I go for more db's or is there a way to get around this?
Great question! Sometimes you just have to do some crazy EQ moves to get something to sound right. With that said, our ears our very sensitive to vocals and them not sounding natural. If you're finding you have to boost that much on a vocal, I would consider trying to re-record that part and focusing on what you're missing sonically to capture it in your new recording! With that said, if you're going for a really bright unrealistic sound, then boost away! Hope that helps! Best of luck!
you have only one vocal track? I' ve doubled mine in recording phase so do i group the tracks and put the mixing chain in the bus or mix every track individually?
I only use doubles creatively like put it on choruses.. but put a double performance take every time sounds unnatural for me because human timing differences is very apparent.. better use a doubler effect if I want it on all the time..
Karthik Nair ikr, thats why i listen to the video by lyrical limonade and not the official audio, they have cut those freq just so you can listen to it lol 😂
Zines I think it’s the same engineer that mixed polo g vocals on first place and finer things They got the same cut at the high mids and a brittle high end
my vocals are not sounding in the mix..... like it sounds like another track alltogether no matter what i do... not the problem of the vocals..... please helh
Hey dude , i have problems with my vocal. they sound like u but not the exemple in protools, like your voice when you explain how eq in the video, full of Bass and resonance. I have a tlm 103 and apollo twin and a vocal booth. i record at 20centimeters of my mic but it sound not clear. Please help me :'(
