How to Record Vocalists (with Grammy Winning producer, Jacquire King) - RecordingRevolution.com 

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He has such a gentle and encouraging way of approaching his notes. What a treat to have an outside perspective during tracking! It’s like a vocal coaching and recording session mixed into one.

I like creating a piano double of the singers part if they cant get the pitch quite right, so that they have something to contrast it with and follow when they sing.

What I really like about him. He is really encouraging. We all need to be encouraged as musicians. I worked with an engineer years back that was also producing, helping and encouraging me. He would find out the notes I was singing on the guitar Then he would figure out other notes for harmonies. It changed my life forever. This was before the computer age so we had to get this as perfect as we could get it with out Antares pitch correction. When you have this level of teaching and experience it helps so much. Such great information.

a true producer,recording ,mixing well.. all in one ..legend!

Jacquire really has his shit together.

Watched the interview and studio tour last night and now getting tips on recording from such a great guy is priceless. Such a positive video, I have found another recording mentor.

Man, this is incredibly helpful! I loved hearing Jacquire explain "people management" and how to communicate with the singer. Thanks for sharing!

My husband, #GeoffWorkman produced & engineered at least 28 triple platinum records and was infamous for his abrasive criticism, but he certainly got results. He would have the band hammer out the tunes perfectly in pre-production in order to waste as little time as possible in the actual studio.

Excellent video I also love how none of this has to do with gear or plugins to make you sound better. The general gist of the whole video is to encourage the best vocal performance out of a singer which at the end of the day gear can't provide you. Sounds great Graham!!!

Great Content , Learnt a lot My Heartfull Thanks to Jacquire King and Graham . Such a Awesome Collaboration and Initiative from you guys . Thank you once Again

I love the last technique he asked Graham to do with his back towards the mic. Thanks for posting this.

I hope this guy teaches production somewhere. He gives a rational explanation for each consideration in the recording process. It was extremely easy to follow, but very informative.

Proof that all of those years I swore I needed a great producer and someone like Jacquire could make my good songs GREAT

There's a lot of gems in here.

Recording vocals at a peak of -3 is not recommended.. maybe in the old analogue days. But digital has a much lower noise floor .. plugins will work much better and sound much better if u have plenty of headroom to play with.. and things will generally be easier to mix if not recorded too hot. Around -9 peak would be perfect.

I just got the course and so far it's great! I'd recommend it for someone who knows the basics and wants to improve their process. Also, Graham, I live about 20 mins from you, small world.

Good balance of technical, musical and communication advice.

Both of you guys, thank you so much for doing these videos and posting them. It's more informational than I ever could have imagined. Means a lot to myself and Im sure others too, real sh*t. Thank You both, One Love

This is so awesome. I've been a performing songwriter for years but my latest recording project finds me recording my own vox which has been really challenging doing it alone. This clip brings some much needed levity to the process.Thanks for these great tips!

You are doing fabulous work. Love from India

I also teach and coach vocals, I teach technique and then we apply that technique to the vocalists practice song and I coach them from there. I also use "sing with a smile" but instead of getting angry I ask the singer to absorb the meaning of the song and become that person as an actor would but then apply any aggression with relaxed but focused energy so as not to create to much tension that may cause obstruction in the voice pathway. This comes of course with much practice, experience and great breathing methodology. I also have the students write out the lyrics and I show them how to mark it up along the way. That being said, great video!

What a great guy! It was a great experience to visit Mr kings studio back in April , I still have the notes on pre production he gave my class ✌️,

Good points! The amount of notes at the beginning could be a little overwhelming, I would think it’s probably better to let the vocalist do a few takes - keeping all takes - then doing a rough comp and then redoing just the parts that you have in your notes. It’s important to understand the technique of singing, things like breath control, voice placement etc. The ‘smile’ comment is spot on . But the most important statement here was the one about ‘empowerment’ which is what a vocal producers job is all about. Kudos!

What a crazy sequence of events. I start watching tutorials on production, learn enough to try and begin emulating my heroes, look around for who engineered one of my favorite Tom Waits albums; find out it’s Jacquire and go to youtube to start looking up interviews and tutorials, open my feed, and HERE HE IS, offering instruction an in-depth production course... ...that costs 3x more money than i have in my bank account. Because i am a working musician with bills to pay. Also, registration ends before i’ll have the chance to make that money, so i’ll NEVER get to see it. Sweet. Not asking for free, but that’s a lot of money to drop all at once. It looks like the course is worth it too. But it’s a daunting hump to get over.

Thanks for this

That masterclass seems like its awesome

Pure gold

Beautiful studio!!!!!!

I appreciate these kind of videos, but I really wish people would go more into hardware one would need for the singing (Preamp, amps, and routing etc.) and the way to set up many microphones into all the hardware. For two days now I have been trying to find a video and maybe I am looking for the wrong thing, but something that will answer, how many microphone preamps and amps do I need for a multi microphone home studio set up and how do I set it up so there is a track for each microphone using hardware and software.

Jacquire brings the HEAT! Great video.

Great reverb and EQ

Beautiful video and fantastically explained. Thanks.

Wonderful approach ...as a vocalist if ur working in a situation where ur producer belittles u, u tend to tighten up and shut down and then its over ....hard to come back from that

This is amazing, thanks for this video!!

Great notes!

*Graham is a young creative genius.* I know if I keep working hard, one day my music will get this good. *Remember this comment* 👈😨

This is SO helpful for future sessions for me! Thx!

Thank You 🙌🙌Very Helpful Video 🔥🔥🔥🔥.

All good advice! 👌🏻✌🏻🎶

Thanks for your time I appreciate it

This is absolutely spot on

Super helpful

There is a Graham's ghost talking!!! :-D

i really love your music gram

Liking the rack of stock plugins on the left :)

Have non-stereo vocals ever been recorded using a combination of two mics simultaneously? For example, if I have one mic that sounds great on the lows and midrange but lacks brightness and have a second mic which lacks lows and mids but has a nice brightness, can’t I combine these two mics and place them next to each other while two using a separate track for each mic and then later play with the levels of both tracks and blend them in a way that flatters the singer/song the most?

Nice... wish i learnt all the process

You guys are trying too hard- just throw some Autotune on it! 😂😂😂. Just kidding! He knows his stuff! He also sounds like a tough critic! 😬 Also, Graham’s got a great voice!

Good job 👏 sir

This is great content. Thanks Graham

I was surprised he recommended -3 dB for the headroom, given digital realm. I thought so many engineers suggest around -9 to -12 dB. That you’d have room for the mix, processing and the rest of the other tracks. Going to ask for Friday’s UAD Q&A.

Great stuff 👌🏽

Thanx Joe Mangalliello!

Awesome thank you so much

Great advice!

Hi, can i buy all the videos?, or is it just a classroom course?

Thank you for this!

Top post!

Bravo!

Awesome video!

Thank you!!

When the singer faced away from the mic, was the mic set to fig.8 or Omni?

From non grammy winning producer the best tip ever: record your voice without headphones but using the monitors just like Michael Jackson did for ages!

Great video.

Good stuff!!!!

talent management.. more important than gear

Brother really you are doing great work by teaching us the art of mixing.. Really awesome tutorials. and Thank you So Much for all the stuff you provided us. Recently i purchased subscription at duelingmixes.com. Your tutorials at duelingmixes.com you did a great job, your mixes are fabulous! but the problem is i cant see the window properly (its little blurry) in 720p Please Do Upload 1080p Also. I would be glad if you solve the problem.

Hi, could you fix the sign up link for Jacquire's course? Thank you.

This is what Jamie Lannister's upto after GOT

Anybody know what the vocal chain is here?

I can see the preamp is api 4 channels

Hi Graham, great stuff as usual. A curiosity: I think I hear that while recording you're already putting some effects on the voice. I always thought that best results come from takes done as flat as possible (besides the setting on the channel strip) and then effects would be added. How's your experience in regard to this? Thanks

How many “takes” should you have or how many are an exceptional norm for vocal takes.

good video but you should split the screen so that we can see Graham and Mr King both at the same time, thanks

" i WANT PERRIER ... OOOOOOOH "

Do they make a device that attaches to your hand or something that pulses the click track? So there is zero click in headphones. Eliminate bleed?

Pro Tools?

You’re recording your vocals at -3 ? I always hear 16-18 what am I missing here?

is Graham suffocating in the booth while you speak all this?

I want to play a guitar solo on this song really bad. Of course, it might turn out to be just a really bad guitar solo!

Knowledgeable but good god. People don't all have ridiculous monitor sends. I get it, it's the way you work with people the way you work in your studio. Your studio habits do not all translate to all studios.

It's hard to bargle nawdle zouzz with all these marbles in my mouth

"How to Ruin Vocalists Confidence" this approach isn't going to work with everyone, for some people instead of pointing out their flaws and drawing attention to certain problems or areas of problems, the better approach is just to keep doing takes and offer words of encouragement throughout the process.

Nice engineering techniques .... Not really producing here through .

unbearable to listen to this guy talk (king), stumble and mumble all the time... the singer is good

He gave it a type of imagine dragons feel. Very kool