Lead Vocal Question
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Posted on Apr 22, 2008 10:16 pm
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Trey
Member Since: Aug 11, 2007
Hey guys,
I've been listening to some recordings lately and I've noticed something.
The lead vocal is almost dry and dead center in the mix. Normal. But something I noticed is bugging me because I can't figure out how to do it myself.
The vocal sits perfectly in the middle but the plosives like S's, P's, T's, ect... are stereo (they widen the vocal for a split second.)
I know there must be a way to acomplish this without manually cutting placing the syllables from different takes on two different tracks and panning.
Any ideas?
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Apr 22, 2008 11:27 pm What kind of recordings (genre etc.)?
Rock wise, maybe they've double tracked the vocals, or copy/paste, left and right, heavily compressed the center channel, and slightly compressed the left and right. That way the comp pulls the middle plosive right back, but the left and right ones go a tad louder.
It could be different attack/release times on the stereo vocals.
It could be that the stereo reverb/chorus/delay becomes more noticable when the comp doesn't catch the initial transient of the plosive.
Just a few ideas. If you try them, let us know how they work for ya.
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Apr 23, 2008 09:48 pm CS has it pretty much right. They can also use the sidechain to let a left and right channel open up just for that split second as well with a wider panning as CS stated.
Dematrixhttp://www.reverbnation.com/2ndgMember
Since: Nov 27, 2007
Apr 24, 2008 07:25 am yeah i know what you're talking about Valid. it almost sounds 3D. i like it.
timexoneproducerMember
Since: Dec 07, 2006
Apr 24, 2008 11:59 am I recently reading about vocal doubling and came across a website that was kind of neat.
www.recordingreview.com/a...-101/Page1.html
It talks about the different tricks people use when recording more than 1 lead vox.
See the part specifically about '16 Layers of Vocals'. This ties into the initial question about having different frequencies at different points on the spectrum. I suspect by EQing all 16 layers differently, a huge vocal sound would have all different freq's coming from all directions...just note that the author admits he was never able to make it work for him but that doesnt mean it wont work for you.
Also, check out the part about the double whispers...thats a pretty cool effect too.
Dematrixhttp://www.reverbnation.com/2ndgMember
Since: Nov 27, 2007
Apr 24, 2008 07:17 pm yeah you're right that article is good.
