Good info and appreciated. The vocals does sound pretty good...But, as a fairly experienced engineer myself (but by no means a know-it-all), I always understood that the reverb (and indeed almost all fx sent to the bus sends should be set to 100% mix whilst if they were in the actual channel inserts they would be set to a percentage of a 100. Just wondering your reason for not following this rule-of-thumb?
This has been a top piece of tuition on vocal processing, such an important area and this will really help me for any future vocals and will also get me to re-look at some of my previous mixes, which I'm sure will improve them greatly, thanks Jono, as alway a fantastic video.
Maybe it's me (or merely just a matter of taste) but I find this vocal to be a very bad example to use. She's hardly singing, it's whispering and moaning (to me anyways)... it would've been more logical to use a strong male or female pop or rock vocal for this tutorial. Just my thoughts. Otherwise, great tutorial.
Meaty tutorial - REALLY helpful - felt like I had a ton of time to process what Jono shared -- still have to teach my ears to be more sensitive... Thanks MusicTech! Cheers!
really good! Good explanations. I was basically always adding a high shelf to my vocals, but way higher frequencies to avoid adding essyness. Interesting to shelf lower than add a deesser. Also, no hpf?
It is better to de-ess first, without any eq informing what the de-esser should be looking for, then compress, then use any form of additive eq after the compressor. The advantage to de-essing before the compressor is the signal being fed to the comp is only the cleaned up tonally balanced signal sent to it. No harsh s's triggering the comp, for example.
Thats actually what i considered too. Having deesser maybe after eq but before comp. But thats just a thought occuring when watching the vocal mixing for the first time. Anyway, isnt it also better to put overall space design on the top of all trqcks to make it sound like the whole band is in the same room?
@@yx2803 Depends on what environment you want to place the sound stage in. If it's a 70's type thing, dry and to tape, then very little verb should be used, I tend to use Bricasti early reflections for that, or Sonnox verb at about 5 percent, haha, but yes on the whole, putting all the instruments bussed out to one or two verbs, one short and one longer, blend the two, is the way to go.
Very, very nice. Can you please reveal more about how have you recorded this particular vocal - space characteristics, microphone, cables brands. It sounds great, really, really great. Congrats!
Thanks so much for yet another helpful tutorial. Your teaching style is amazing and so constructive. At the beginning, you refer to the "gain" control in the library, but sometimes it's not clickable and in grey. Any reason for that?
