Porter Robinson: "Mixing Vocals is Like A BOB ROSS Painting..." 

DJ toenail is grinding

lmao literally

Way better at talking too

He is not Xqc. He is Eric Barone aka ConcernedApe.

@@aixrynx is a joke

It’s also good to remember that the majority of bigger artists are also using a lot of the same gear/plugins, pitch correction, and most likely vocal stems for backing vocals/harmonies live. So even live you have to remember that there’s a lot of production going into the vocals as well. Which doesn’t take away from being a good singer as well, because even with all of those things, if your vocals are the loudest thing in the mix and you’re way off, it’s still going to be noticeable. It’s great that even smaller bands can run an ableton live rig with most of the stuff they used in the studio. Best thing about touring though, is you really get a lot of practice singing, and nothing helps you get better more than just doing it over and over and over and over again…lol

@@magicmark3309 absolutely true! I just meant live as in.. in person. Like if you see old clips of Michael Jackson laying down vocals in the studio, it’s insane how amazing his voice sounded raw. Incredibly talented despite being an abject monster and serial predator. Thank God he’s rotting in the ground somewhere. Praise Allah!

He doesn't do this very often

@@notnotjay i know :(

It's prolly for his streaming setup

Come on bro. Just one more VST bro. This one will take your music to another level bro. Trust me bro- [Not making fun of anyone. This applies to me, too :^)]

if you think porter just uses FL stock presets your incredibly wrong... not that you cant make decent music that way

@@robsmith8386 he is well known for using fl stock plugins such as ‘brightness’ preset from fruity lsd in sad machine

@@n-341 i realize but thats not the majority of what he uses. he also has used tons of presets from paid plugins too

@@robsmith8386 that’s also not really the point. You gotta make your own synths if you wanna be a name people remember in the future

yes

Most definitely

He uses mixing and mastering engineers

If vocal comping is cheating… then any kind of music that requires any form electricity to produce sound should be illegal.

Its not cheating, it just makes your music sound bad. If you're cool with that, to each their own

​@@johnwest6083 how does taking the best parts equate to a bad vocal

​@@MLGRDRit isn't "cheating" but at the sound time. How could you take pleasure in extreme vocal comping. You can't perform live at that same level. Even as artistry goes, how could you be proud? Any and I meaaaaann anyyyyybodyyyyy can sound good if recorded 100s of takes. Each to their own I guess. I'm just a dude who believes in doing things as natural as possible. Vocal comping, excessive auto tune to me, is a crutch that people use when they don't have any NATURAL capability. That's just me though

@@johnwest6083 well keep crying about it john, see if that helps

this is porter robinson lol

It doesn’t matter what you mix songs on, as long as you know exactly what the strengths and weaknesses of your headphones/speakers are. Even better if you EQ your headphones to sound as flat as possible, because then you need to do real effort to make your mix sound good

@@neek01 shit bro I guess sound engineers don’t need hi-fi monitors and paneling, but a HyperX headset would be all you need, right?

I think that's more of self depreciating humor than an admission of fraud. I do the same thing with writing, "good writers borrow from other writers, great ones steal outright." It's just a funny way of simplifying the effort that goes into creative works

Agreed. I’m very competent with melodyne, but if I splat I vowel i splat a vowel, it’ll never fix that.

The reason people would say its bad when there is no autotune isnt because they're conditioned to not hear perfections, its because the vast majority of vocalist these days are not as skilled as they used to be. They NEED autotune to even be passable, unless given unlimited time and takes. No one is going to tell you to change the radio when a Queen song comes on because Freddie Mercury's voice has too many imperfections. Its honestly kind of a cope to say autotune is necessary because of audience reception. Think of any old school rocker like Mercury, Plant, or even the Beatles. They all recorded on tape, which means the majority of takes are done with as minimal overdubbing and punching in as little as possible. You can find the raw tracks online, and they are damn near mix ready just from the vocalists volume/mic control and natural tone.

@John West I disagree, Freddie mercury hit flat notes, but the difference is, so did the band, and because your ear is expecting those imperfections, you accept it. Nowadays, most of our popular music is created digitally, and the instruments are tuned so mathematically perfectly that a singer being even slightly off key sounds odd. It's the clash between the digital and the organic and the dissonance it creates. There are singers that are absolutely amazing nowadays that still use autotune or other tuning software, Sam Smith and Adele, both absolutely incredible singers, use tuning like melodyne, because the audiences ears are trained to expect mathematical perfection. Back then, it wasn't necessarily true that they were just somehow naturally better, as if the pedigree of the performers back then was different than now, the difference was that you couldnt rely on being able to take a million takes, so the band or performer practiced hundreds or thousands of times in preparation for hitting the studio, so that when they did hit the studio, they were so trained that they could do it in minimal time spent and money spent. Record labels are simply not making that kind of investment into music these days, alot of the tuning issue comes from record labels being cheap and not really investing in artists like that anymore, they'd rather pay a studio engineer 3k to tune vocals instead of spending however much money renting a rehearsal space and paying the performer to practice for hundreds of hours. Christina augulera had almost a million dollars spent on her in singing lessons to make sure she was absolutely amazing, what record label is going to spend a million dollars on someone now to make sure they're the best they can be? There are tons of factors that go into why tuning is used, and artist being inferior is such a small aspect of it, we have so many amazing singers nowadays.

@@DodgaOfficial you literally just repeated an argument I disproved with more words. Keep coping brother. I dont think you actually know what a "perfect take" sounds like. Newsflash, if its "mathematically perfect," then its wrong. It would be like saying Sinatra is a bad singer because he tends to sing flat. Just try singing a Sinatra song perfectly in key, it sounds god awful. Singing flat is the correct thing to do for those songs. I can tell you right now, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the vast majority of vocalists are terrible these days. Anyone with experience recording artists, or even just someone active in their local scene knows this. I could easily see the role of the vocalist being replaced entirely with AI deepfakes when it comes to recorded vocals. Artists would just rent out the sound of their voice to the AI. You're already doing what is effectively the "manual" version of a deepfaked voice with extreme vocal comping. If you are splicing together 50 takes, its not even a performance by the musician, its a performance of the mixing engineer. You can rant about how that this stuff isnt right or doesnt matter all you want. It will make your art worse, and you are compromising on quality for convenience. I find most musicians and producers understand this on a subconscious level, but are generally incapable of processing the cognitive dissonance necessary to actually improve themselves. As a result, they just endlessly try and justify their uses of these crutches, often times with longwinded arguments that effectively say nothing of value.

@@johnwest6083 lol you disproved nothing, but whatever Mr "born in the wrong generation."

I’d assume you just record the same vocal 50+ times and simply cut the good part from each and every take. Then, mix and match till you have 1 perfect vocal

Nick Mira fused with XQC. Wait no. He's not Blue enough.