Mixing Vocals with Parametric EQs 

I've learned so much from you sir... My music mixing has come along way! Thank YOU!!

Dave is an amazing person! thumbs up for Dave & Herb. Thanks for all of your effort in putting those videos out! I've learned a loooooot from Dave, i'm sure that i'm not the only one. Thanks again.

Great video and tutorial. Keep'em comin Dave!

EQ is so important. Great to see the reasoning behind each of Dave's moves here.

Who is this legend, love you sir

LEARNING FROM THE LEGENDS

Dave there is a frequency analyzer in the pro q. On the bottom where it says off thereana is a dropped where you can make the analyzer pre or post. :)

thanks sir Pensado

Does anyone agree with me in thinking that the fabfilter pro q 2 is one of the best eq plugs around? I really want to get it but I want to make sure it's a good investment.

Dear dave will u please do an itl on mixing trap beats? thanks!

I love watching this man.

Thanks for sharing, Dave. I didn't realize I've watched this one before. I guess I wasn't paying attention the first time! Thanks again for your knowledge and time.

Dave, I have learnt so much from you and have gained so much inspiration and knowledge from you that I've just started my own channel. It would be greate to collaborate with you on a video, so if you agree then let me know. Take care 😊

Great tutorial! Thank you!)

Thank you.

amazing

thank you

I subscribed a while back cuz Dave is so smart. Can we do a super heavy EQ cut on the dumb dislike button? Thanks Dave, you are LEGENDARY.

First hand tutoring! epic!

I am using Sonitus in Sonar for vocal EQ - does anyone know of anyone great EQ settings to apply to a male Vocal that i could try to make the vocal clear and smooth to stand out in the mix ? low shelf / high shelf etc

Pensado how do I get an album mixed by you? :D

I have years of experience as a studio engineer in LA, including gold record credit, but I always learn something new from Dave. Even when talking about basic stuff, Dave always provides insight and ideas I had never considered.

Fab filter is among the best if no ideal for surgical editing

ooops I fell into the advanced class. awesome.

I guess I don't understand how you put a hi-pass on the over all track, but are boosting your 150hz -/+. Doesn't that defeat the hi-pass?

I just downloaded fabfilter after watching this. I'm definitely gonna buy it if I LIKE it, but from what i've seen it gives you a lot of control. But it makes me wonder, if all EQs have the same functions why does it even matter which one we use? They should all give us the same results, shouldn't they?

I've figured out to acquire good sound that you would need a good A/D convertor , summing amp and software with a 64 bit engine. No need for compression unless you use it for vocals or a guitar or anything from a mic. Eq is only used to cut conflict clashes in frequency and protools is garbage without a great A/D convertor , tc electronic 6000 in between or both.

Doesnt that teal low cut he adds do essentially nothing because he already has a low cut at a higher frequency?

Song?

Why does the smaller bandwidth "scare" him?

You know u got an analizer right in your Pro-q, right ?????

what is this for really? Thanx anyway :)

And that's what drives me nuts about online forums discussing EQ. People will say cut here or cut there. Well by how much? People will say wide band or narrow band but that's so subjective. Watching people EQ with Fabfilter gives me the exact Q numbers to use as a starting reference.

watch it at 1.25 x

Hey ***** , do u ever use a low pass to tame the top end of your vocals?

The 8 people that dislike the video was listening through their laptop speakers. :P

Great video Dave. Don't mind the trolls.

Dave, I would love to see a video on proper use and setting up an AD/DA convertor. Plus the benefits on analog summing and the distinct sound quality or tones from vintage outboard gear such as the SSL and Neve. I think people are sick of seeing the same non productive videos on eq and compression. We want to know how to achieve great sound quality and to mimic a vintage or popular tone or harmonic characteristic. Thanks..

For less than 10 min we are lucky to learn how to "MIX vocals", when the video actually shows some kind of EQ-ing a vocal :))))

"drop another guy there"

esensualy

Sony c800g? (I am pretty sure)

Would you be interested in doing a full breakdown of a song i wrote? it is a trance song, and you could mix and process the whole song

watching this makes me so sad

I know he's renowned and all, but this is just bad. VERY basic and he stutters, pauses, and tries to recall very basic terms like "bandwidth" and highpass. His age shows.

Well? Dave. When I have some harshness at 10 kHz on a vocal. I will frequently patch in a High Frequency Limiter/De-esser. And it does so, Dynamically. Keeping it bright. Except for that Sibilance.. It smooths that right out. Dynamically. Instead of fixed. Why did you do it, fixed? Oh well? We don't all do it the same way. Of course this was 9 years ago. This was posted. Maybe he does it my way now? After all it's been 9 years. I think he's still learning? And can he still, hear well, today? He's nine years older now so I don't think so? He can't hear those high frequencies anymore. He's an old man. And they lose those high frequencies. So? He probably wouldn't correct those, now? Because he can't hear them anymore. RemyRAD

Dave? Parametric EQ is a relatively recent EQ? I don't think so. They've existed for well over 50 years now. Where have you been buddy? Did you just wake up? You know they've been on George Massenburg audio consoles since, 1972. They existed before that. But they were very large, single-channel, rackmount devices. And you could not have those on every channel of your audio console. That's what George Massenburg did. He had the miniaturized stanch leave. Using newer technologies. To put one on every channel of his audio console.. Later SSL and others started doing the same thing. Including parametric equalizers. But no Old Neve console, can do that. 1073's can't do that. They are not surgical. They are Broad Q, enhancement devices. Not really corrective devices. And oh well. Plenty of hits have been engineered with those. Those are what I have, 1073's. Oh well? I can suffer. Ha! So this is all pretty funny to me. As I'm a Real Audio Engineer. And I know what I'm listening to. Most everybody else doesn't. They've never heard it right before. They wanted better speakers than, JBL. They wanted to be, stupid. And so they are. They are all stupid together. Which makes them all, right. And that's what, Cults. Are all about. As when everybody is wrong together. They are right and righteous! And so all of these dummies are taught wrong at the University Level. I've discovered. This is really no different. Then all of these world-famous Physicists & Astrophysicists. That believe. The galaxies were all created a certain way. Over billions of years of time. Which they recently found out. They are completely wrong about. They've been teaching it wrong for years. And people have college degrees of wrong. Whoops! And so educated academic idiots. All think they are right here. They are not. I know it. RemyRAD