Hope this was helpful to you! My course Producer Accelerator goes into tons of detail on vocal production (not to mention over 300 lessons on everything from producing to mixing): produceracceleratorcourse.com (this link is working!)
I have no idea how I stumbled upon this video...but we used to work together in a chain restaurant! Good to see you're still making music. Keep it up, man! Great content!
@@TheReal4th No answer as to why he chose not to reply. I was just excited to find him on the internet still chasing his passion. He turned me on to Native Instrument's KOMPLETE plug-in set.
I love this technique. I use this all the time with the 5 layers on lead vocals, but I actually perform the lower octave twice (benefits of having a bass/baritone range).
Nathan, your enthusiasm is so inspirational! I it's like, you produce a piece and you just know it's 'boom' and that smile comes along, it's so cool. This is such a great bit of tuition and will be going back over some of my music with this in mind.........thank you, thank you, thank you
Much thanks for this video. Having three different vocals panning one to either side, then keeping one in the middle is a massive help. Really helped my production.
This is "THE" video that made me hit the subscribe button... I've viewed many of your video's, which I thought were all outstanding. But this is the one really motivated me to hit that button.. AWESOME...
love it when your own work makes you groove and flowww naturally...the smile is 100% :) great channel and great advice. one day hope to be at this level with the voices thanks . keep the flow from PayoBlusProd Homestudio - Malaga, Spain
Nathan, you are the best! Im also a musician and creator and very happy to found you here. Your joy and passion for what you do is very very inspiring! Is a reminder for me (and for many of your audience) that we must believe in our magic and enjoy the creative process...and of course develop it! Best wishes Master! I will keep watching and learning from you!
Yeah definitely a good option. I still do it by hand because vocalign can have some bad artifacts that need tweaking anyways so I like the control of scissors and crossfade
Great video! Very helpful. Just starting out with home recording. I would actually sing the same part multiple times and was wondering if I was doing it right versus copying the single vocal track. Good to know I’m on the right path. If you want to do all your instructional videos with that song, I’d be ok with that. Great song!!
Hey Nathan, I'm a new subscriber and have watched about 3 of your videos and totally LOVE what I am seeing! Great tips and very well explained. One QUESTION: For the gang vocals, were those all individual performances?
Hey Nathan - I'm a song writer from New Zealand. LOVING your content and your enthusiasm! By the way did you write that song? It's sounds Epic! I could imagine 'Imagine Dragons' doing a track like that. Looking forward to more of your videos.
Hey Nathan....absolutely LOVE your videos! Could you please explain to me more what the difference is between copying and tracking new performances? Why isn't the new performance just also making it louder? Even copies you could just pan and adjust volume. Thanks for anything you can offer. Keep up the good work.
Very useful tip about the format shift. I didn't care for the overall vocal sound (too distorted and muddy... I actually like your voice on that voice over mic!). Thanks for your vid.
Yeah that sound is definitely not for everyone. I know with the mix it was much more subtle than it sounded in the production I was showing here. Yeah, the Lauten LS-208 is fantastic!
Great video! Love your energy!! :) Only one tiny suggestion - and it's just my opinion, but it would make your video more fun to watch if you put your PIP window in the other corner, or mirror flip your video so it looks like you're looking at the same screen we are. Gives a feeling of being there with you. Whereas the way you have it now - it looks like you're blind and looking off into the empty distance while you're talking to us. lol ;) Amazing content and vibe though! Really cool!
What I’ve done is copy and paste the original lead vocal track. Then on the duplicate track I’ll use the nudge function and move it over at least 10 ticks which makes it sound different from the original. I’ll slightly lower the volume on the duplicate track so that it easily blends into the first. Curious to hear your thoughts on this? Maybe I’m doing something wrong I’ve done this when trying to achieve the John Lennon vocal effect on the early Beatles records.
That's basically just what a delay plugin is for. You'd get a better sound by having an entirely different vocal take, or by using some processing to make the doubled track slightly different.
It would really depend - I didn't mean it as a blanket statement but as a general thing. In a more intimate setting I might not do it because I want it to feel less big and more close - doing doubles usually makes things feel bigger, wider, and less intimate unless you are really being sparce in doing it and mixing them in low. You can certainly still do it - but just need to be aware that it might not always fit the setting!
Thanks :) However, I am not just an engineer - I'm a songwriter and producer first and foremost :) pretty common for producers to also produce their own music - that's a big part of what this whole channel is about!
@@NathanJamesLarsen THATS what I’m talkin about, that’s why I like this content cause I’m also a amateur rapper using logic idk music theory I’m tryna dip my hands into audio engineering as well!
i was gonna watch this mixing tutorial, but this one dude looked out from the vid screen all googly eyed at me , and said to quit watching mixing tutorials. how you doin....
Great tutorial!!Is there difference between actually recording dub vocals like you do in the clip and duplicating+ delaying the main vocal?Or processing with waves doubler?
Hi love your video's learned quite a lot, one question, if you have 3 lead vocals L C R , do you put all these through the same compressor on a bus? and I find its almost impossible to get 3 takes the same volume, there will always be a word here and there louder by a fraction which then unbalanced the panning.
If you are having trouble with individual words being louder or softer - then don't use compression - instead use volume automation to control it and re-balance. Compression is great and I do compress them all on a vocal bus but rely on volume automation for this in the case of balance issues.
Any tips for going about mixing a messy logic project. I am someone who uses logic often as an aid for composing music, I tend to take bits from jams and riffs I have knocking around and then build up a song in a logic project. By the time I have added all the layers I want I end up with a complete mess of a project, every track has a bunch of plugins on and nothing is labelled or ordered in any logical way. At this point the idea of mixing the track seems pretty daunting so I usually roughly sort out levels and leave it at that. Normally these recordings aren't made for public consumption so I don't really mind them sounding a little wild but I am working with someone remotely who lives in a different country at the moment and we might want to actually put out these recordings but the way these songs are coming together is leading to similarly messy projects.
You better bet your bottom dollar (that these two brothers know how to handle business. In: Alien Invasion Tomato Monster Mexican Armada Brothers, Who Are Just Regular Brothers, Running, In a van from an Asteroid and All Sorts of Things THE MOVIE!)
This is fantastic, thanks so much for this! Question: How would this work with Parallel Comp? Would you only put the lead/centred vocal through, or would would also put L and R main vox through the same, OR through their own independent buses for compression so that you could keep the panning?
For me to be honest - I use Parallel Aggressor for all my parallel compression now. It's so freaking easy to use and I never have to create buses. Worth checking out
