How to Make Vocals Sound Professional 

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Best teacher I have found on YT regarding mixing. He sticks to the meat and taters, explains in a very simple way. Love this channel

Bro your voice is silky smooth. I could fall asleep to this

You just opened my eyes after 3 months of pain trying to fit vocals in my song, I didn't even know what I was doing. with your instant demonstration using your own voice to make actual sounds that represent those problematic points on eq spectrum is so simple but it's exactly what opened my eyes. And compression, turned out all this time I needed to know why I need compression at all, and you showed that perfectly too. And also using de-esser after compression, I can't believe I put attack at 1 on compressor because just one day hearing all those unwanted sounds from month an esses. My de-esser was at the beginning of the chain. And also when you boosted that low mid-mid to show that boxy sound and high mids to show nasal, it was like a thousand needles put through my head because I heard this sound all these months constantly every day, because without it my vocals kept drowning in mix, and it actually problem with other instruments that I need to solve. I have cheap monitor headphones and earbuds, the next big thing I need to buy is definitely expensive monitor headphones. I hope I didn't damage my ears and I hope I stop being so stubborn

A perfect teacher. CLarity without the distractions of unneeded information. Vocal mixing was an inscutable mystery to me until this video. Now I can see clearly. The rain is gone.

I’ve been searching for this content for 5 years 😢 thank you sirrr !!

Joe is in my brain! Always coming in clutch with the right topics at the right time!

Excellent video as usual! Another key take from this: You know you're on the right track if your vocal already sounds great even without effects such as reverb and delay. 🔥🔥

Big Thanks Joe

Joes always got a great approach and easy to listen to. Believe it or not, that makes a huge difference in whether I listen to and watch a channel. There are so many that are not pleasant or interesting, or they are very self-servant in the way they speak, and it makes me leave the channel. Joe's a great teacher and that makes a big difference

Love your no nonsense approach. It's not magic and that's the message you get across very well.

Your tutorials are always so easy to follow and understand! They are very hepful, thank you 🙏

Greatly appreciated! Excellent tutorial

Fantastic tutorial. Thank you. Really good and very practical demonstration.

Great tips. Thanks, Joe. The mix you were using to demonstrate sounded great.

The most helpful and concise video I have ever seen on this subject. All well described instruction, no fluff.

Brilliant!!!

Great stuff here Joe! Thank you for sharing. 👍👍

Thank you this is so helpful!

Thanks Joe. The compression tip in particular really helped me get some extra polish on my vocal.

An excellent tutorial. Thank you.

Joe I really liked your video. Not only for the content, but the way in which you shot it, Each and every adjustment on equipment was seen on screen with out having to squint at what you where doing. Very nice.

I really love this video... God bless you. Imma gone work on myself 😊 Greetings from Ghana

Watching your vids have been helping make a lot of stuff I've been learning click, and I'm starting to get a better sense of how to approach my mixes. Thank you for these.

Simple yet masterful video. Thanks yo!

Helpful video. I love that you use Studio One. That is my go to software. Just a quick note on guitar tone. After 45 years of playing guitar and listening to others play, I believe that 90% at least of guitar "tone" is in the fingers of the player. A good guitar player can make any decent guitar/amp combo sound awesome and vice versa.

Thanks Joe.. you are so helpfull...

You deliver awesome tips in a simple manner. Great content, Joe, as usual!

Great video as usual Joe. You're my go to source for all things recording.

2:17 is the best thing in this video. Always great content Joe. And I’ve always liked your vocal sound while you’re speaking to us. Great to point out what the source vs the end sounds like, even for your voiceover mic.

This was excellent, Joe!

Thank you, you are a great teacher. ☕

Very well explained, thanks for the skill transfer

Thank you for the lesson

Well done, this was really helpful thanks.

EXCELLENT ! Your analysis on the vocal sound spectrum is very valid and the suggested applied sound treatments are effective. Many thanks !

Good stuff! Thank you!

A lot of useful info. Thanks.

Thanks! Nice song, good tutorial!

Great video, as usual! The moment someone taught me to cut before boosting anything, that was a game changer.

Joe! Thanks for demonstrating how useful and great sounding the Tube CB is! I have most of the popular compressors available today and I still use the Fat Channel Tube CB all the time. It's really a great compressor.

Hey mate i have watched a few of your vids now and they are always helpful and you have a really good video style. Keep up the good work

perfect teacher

Hi Joe, thanks for this video and for the many I watched lately. Definitely got to subscribe to your channel for such great content! Thanks

Well explained at a good pace. Subscribed

Where has this video been. Thank you sir!! Incredibly helpful

Great video.. You solved all my mix problems.. Thank you very much.

Awesome stuff It's a continuous learning process 😎

Thanks Joe for no bs and cuttin straight to the point, very good explanation! :D

Thank you! Great video. Liked and subscribed.

you are awesome thanks

Thank you for the video ❤️

Great job joe🙂

Great advice- you can put into practice right away with any DAW.

The tutorialis great ... but the voice is fantastic!!

Awesome ❤

I always laugh somewhere in your videos. You Nashville guys have a great sense of humour. Would love to see you, if you haven't already, team up with Joe Carrell. He cracks me up too. Though I hardly learn something new in your videos (been songwriting/mixing since the early '90s), you always make me re-evaluate my workflow. Little subtleties and nuances as to why you make a certain eq (or whatever) move, you explain it so well. All the best dude!

Super helpful, thanks

Good stuff Joe !!

Great video. Super.

great summary

Just found your channel / videos - really great videos - learning from the start and great explanations.

That overall volumen trick like it a lot, thxx great video

Great video thanks!!

thank you so much fo your videos

You're awesome!

Joe, do you double the vocal tracks or single take? Good tips.

This right here is the ideal tutorial.

Thanks good tips

u r the best

Your videos are great man, I’m a sound engineer student from Scotland, thanks 🙏

Thank you

Thank you Joe, just used the de-muffling technique on a track I'm mastering and it turned out way better.

another banger video. You're definitely one of the reasons I picked Studio one to learn with.

so nice bro

thank you, bro.

Joe is incredibly underrated and deserves way more followers, I'm happy to see he's grown to 250k+

wow nice tutorial

Thanks

Thank you for the video. I may try a bit of higher mid removal on a vocal I am working on now which has a similar sound as you referred to in this video. For vocal compression I use a 1176 style compressor set to 1 to 2 db of reduction, and then an LA2A style of compressor set to 6 to 7 db of reduction. Also, referencing tracks while I'm mixing is essential to me. I'm still learning, but these techniques have worked for me. Cheers.

What a great tip on lowering the mid range a bit to accentuate the high. I was too egotistical to have thunk it. Too bad for me. But good for me now! Thx!

Tq joe❤❤❤❤❤

when you mentioned Volume automation I had my own "oh that again"-moment, as I just came from the Audio Mountain youtube channel who just released a video on that topic. It's a new channel and I can only recommend it. And he also started using Studio One.

NICE

Key compression terminology… make it , “berr berr!” 😂🙌🏻 Great vid, Joe!

I like the beginner and the you

You have an excellent speaker voice. No EQ and compressor can create this voice. So sometimes, it's really a matter of the source 🙂

مرسی 🙏

Спасибо✨🎸

I honestly was shocked how far people pushed compression, and it indeed made things sound better once I found it out. Without another one of your videos, I wouldn't have thought of using that strong of a compressor level. I do agree with the levels. Sometimes I hear an over-processed vocal and in the past, I thought that over-processed vocals were heavily autotuned (and they could have been). It turns out fx like compressors can make it sound autotuned as well

When I get ready to mix I ask myself. What would Joe do?

Are going to hear another EP soon? Staredown was beautiful one 🙂

i subscribe becouse you use Studio One, and make good content 💯

4:45 I'm using dynamic EQ thing for this frequency range ☺️

IMO this is the hardest part, especially if you work on your own vocals. here, at the end of the clarity chapter, I even think the vocals sound metallic? like in a can or as if there was a funnel around the mic :o but maybe I hear it differently tomorrow :D

Fantastic information presented in a great way. But I did have a thought about compression. The compression you used seemed perfect for smoothing out the dynamic inconsistencies of a singer. But it made me wonder if that amount of compression would be too much for a style of music where vocal dynamics are a more important part of the music. (And, the singer would have to be good at performing those dynamics.)

Excellent, taught me a lot. But no reverb? I use MixCraft.

❤❤🎉🎉 thks

nice teaching giving a like and follow asap

If I would afford it, you would be my producer! I like all your approaches on mixing. God bless you