Mixing Background Vocals - Into The Lair #63 

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Instead of bussing the BG Vox to an Aux to control the volume, I just create a group to move all of the faders simultaneously. Maybe the Aux idea is better though as far as panning if you're dealing with say a 4 part harmony. Then you only have to adjust 2 pan knobs instead of 4 if you want to widen or bring into center that group. I'll have to try this out to see which is better

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I have background vocals that do a call and response stack in different harmonies singing the same words, basically making a "chord", for an electronic song. What should I do it?

Did you use an aux to mess with the stereo image or the panning. I couldn't see what you were doing on that part. Thanks for the videos btw, really helps a lot.

Thanks so much for this but what was the plugin you used at 8:28 ? Thanks

Great Video Pensado, But I have One Question. How is it you can only record in Mono but I see here you have the Background Vocals on Two different Stereo Audio Tracks (As if you recorded in Stereo, (which I know that is Impossible because it's Vocals) ?

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What people do is create stems. That means several mono tracks are recorded, panned to taste (and sometimes run through some plugins or gear), and then summed to a stereo track.

Looks to me like that's the result of placing nodes before/after the vocal and bringing the level down. The parts in silence that look like boosts are just where the automation line was before he's brought the level down. You can see that as the song progresses these jumps get smaller, which suggest to me that he's set his final level at the end of the song first, then dropped the earlier levels afterwards.

I'm guessing they got comped to two stereo tracks from a good number of tracks or a plugin's been used.

Just a point I noticed Why on the automation do you turn up between phrases? Is there any reason for this like to trigger the noise gate?

Could be recorded stems. Also, If you have 2 mono takes, you can highlight them both and drag them to a stereo audio track. Giving you a stereo track with both takes. One on the left and the other on the right. *ProTools*

Also, what did you use to make your vocals wide? There was a slider

ok you have the hook tracks bussed to a Aux titled "Hooks" but where are you bussing that aux to? a "Master Aux" or an "all Vox Aux" to master out??

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This video needs some Waves X-Noise. Still great video, thank you!

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