What do YOU do when mixing vocals? Comment below!

@rrdream2400

2 жыл бұрын

for certain songs, I have rolled off the high end on all the backups, like over 5k

@mobthegamer5391

2 жыл бұрын

I use a similar trick but using a plugin called TrackSpacer by WavesFactory, which ducks down the frequencies to make room for the source to poke out, it's almost like sidechain compression but less "squashy".

@me1k0r

2 жыл бұрын

I mostly despair...:-)

@timball8429

2 жыл бұрын

DS-ing is definitely something I do but never thought about a multiband side chained from the main Vox. Good idea. Thanks! One thing I do is more in tracking getting the BVs sung from further away (like 18 inches or more depending on the style). This makes less work for the compressor. Less sibilants, plosives and proximity affect.

@updown5238

2 жыл бұрын

Clip gaining the vocal helps where needed helps hit the vocal compressor in a more even, better fashion - and a bit of tape delay on the vox is nice too.

As a jingle singer in the 70's and 80's, it was common to drop "esses" as a bg singer. Cleaned up splashy esses without de essers

@Producelikeapro

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed! I often make sure BV singers either don’t sing them or I will mute them or bring them down afterwards

@blqckpop

2 жыл бұрын

With Melodyne one can just completely remove the Ss from the BVs. Since you don’t need more than one S across the entire vocals you can adjust that one S how you like. But of course , great advice here, Great work Marc!

@danepaulstewart8464

11 ай бұрын

YES! The lost skill that EVERY jingle singer in Chicago all knew how to do in the 1980’s. Lost knowledge is a real thing. It’s not limited to Roman Road Building.

@RaphaelLoopro

5 ай бұрын

I actually remove it with fade ins but also sing backings without ts and sses

Just a friendly heads up! Andrew Bergthold is a friend, and he was the producer on this. The artist is actually Brave Holiday. Just want to give them credit too. Thanks for a great video!

I always automate the level of S's and P's almost all the way down if the BVs and main vocals are singing the exact same parts. As long as they are present in the main vocal your ear doesnt notice.

@TECTONICSMASH

Жыл бұрын

Simple and effective. Automation can solve most problems that people try to fix with fancy effects processing.

So grateful for Produce Like a Pro in helping us to sit at the feet of these talented engineers...thank you Marc for participating.

Love all videos with Marc! Thank you so much Warren for inviting only the Best to the party!

Finally getting round to watching this and it's the perfect time for this trick. Working on a mix where the artist thought my approach to the backing vocals was too present and I think this will be a godsend in tucking some of the harshness back!

What a great technique! Thanks @ProduceLikeAPro for these mini-classes!

thank you for another great show, Produce like a Pro has to be the best for producers on KZread

What a cool trick. I just found a new problem and fix to look out for. This dude mixes some great tracks. He's so good.

This trick also seems to add a lot of sweet dynamic variance between the front and backing vox. Awesome!

Excellent advice. Thank you so much for taking the time Mark :)

Thank you again MDN - excellent tip for free. And you don't only control the "s" with MB compression. At the same time you control high frequencies and this way send the background vocal further and create more space for lead vocal.

Smashing video Marc. Thanks very much. Keep them coming

You share such practical and useful techniques I am always impressed with the depth of knowledge you are putting into your work. Thank you, thank you, thank you…

Nobody is talking about the awesome lighting, color palette, and color contrast of your video. They're awesome.

Thank you. I really gain insight from your tutorials. Truly thankful.

Love having this knowledge to come to when i need it the most. This just helped improve the current mix im working on. Thanks Marc. Thanks for sharing

Awesome tip! Thanks Marc!

Thanks for the detailing tips ,its really helpful

Another super informative video from Marc. A technique that I will be using.

Great tip, you always bring the goods! Thank you....

brilliant! this is so helpful. thank you!

Very creative. Years of experience guides to the top!

Nice trick! Cool and quick way to get the BGVs to play nice with the Lead Vox.

You always learn something new, thank you!

Thank you so much for that big fat clue!

Great tip as always, thanks!

This is a phenomenal idea

Marc is AMAZING!

Always feel smarter after your videos thanks a bunch!

Wow that is a THICCCCC mix, good hearing these tips, not what I expected to get what I clicked in, but gonna be massively helpful since I"m producing AND tracking AND writing AND singing on my next album for NICU... boutta head back into the home recording booth to start working on background vocals for the album's main single. This gives me some great ideas about what I can expect to adjust in production vs. what I need to think about when coming up with cool vocal harmonies.. helps alot.

Doctor (MD) Nelson does it again, magic vocals! Thank you Dr.

as always, great content!

Just the concept opens up all kinds of ideas for controlling other frequencies.

@Producelikeapro

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

I get such a huge smile when I hear that intro music! Marc you are my hero and my favorite mixer. Great info as usual my friend 🤘

wrapping up an LP mix right now and this was the EXACT thing that my BV bus needed. thanks for the trick as always ya'll!

@Producelikeapro

2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic!

Very cool Marc! Thanks!

Very clever. Thank you!

"You are the champion" Marc Daniel Nelson: Humility, Simplicity and Immeasurable Talent in 8 '. Thanks Warren !!! PLAP: "The best channel in real life" Blessings!

@Producelikeapro

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks ever so much Favio!! You Rock!!

@FavioMagnoGuitarrista

2 жыл бұрын

@@Producelikeapro Your Rock Warren! Blessings and good weekend !!!

@Producelikeapro

2 жыл бұрын

You’re very kind Favio!

THANK YOU Brother!! I do something similar with Bass, only side chain the bottom end, but never thought to do it on vocals. Doing this on a record right now, you just saved me a load of time! X

That's a pretty smart technique. Thanks for sharing.

I see a new MDN or Warren video, and I get my notebook out. Another great tip. Thank you!

I am most certainly going to try this. It's a great idea.

Fantastic tip!

Great trick! Time saver for sure!

Thanks for the tip! 👍🏼

Thank you Marc ❤️

🙌🏻😀Thank you Marc!

Marc you're the man!

This is an amazing technique!

Top stuff … as usual 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Thank you for sharing this trick

Greatly improved my bcks! thank u brother

What a fire lesson thank you

Very very useful tip. Thank you so much for sharing

Who are the philistines who give this man a thumbs down? For shame... Marc, once again your expertise rocks my world. Thankyou man, thank you!

@audiospectra

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, you can impress everyone. Some people will always find fault in everything.

You can have 1 background do the S… and the others use a TH on the S as if lisping…. You can also direct the background singers except for 1 to just mis-pronounce and leave of the S completely off the word…instead of sun (un) … sounds ridiculous but it absolutely works and uses less processing

@massivebeatzz

2 жыл бұрын

that means telling them to behave like Frankenstein...or comedians...going to be hard to sustain over longer periods of time.

Can we get a video just showing off the Fairchild? BTW, great process and perfect timing as I have a few songs with 3-part background vocals.

@Producelikeapro

2 жыл бұрын

Marvellous idea!

@jossuecastaneda8135

2 жыл бұрын

UnfairChild

Nice One. Thanks.

Mixing Multiple Tracks like this...CLICK ON THE VIDEO BOOM !!!! YOU SOLVED THE PROBLEM I WAS HAVING...THANK YOU BRO!!!

Great technique

Thanks a million, really good trick. :-)

The ducking of certain frequencies by side chaining is a very useful trick. Ideas triggered! Thnx :-)

It's almost an jawdropping reaction on this genius trick! Why did i never think about that? I usually just cut out the S's and drop them in volume, Haha

@brucedickert5411

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, don't worry. That is another great way to address this situation. I'm not entirely convinced that it would take THAT much longer anyways. I do the same thing.

@Alienor-music

2 жыл бұрын

Same here.

@brettjockell6611

2 жыл бұрын

I am old and feeble so I watched it twice...oh hell yeah...cool trick. I'm curious since I dont have that particular plugin......what is the lo pass cut off and slope you used on that band? Great move!

@Producelikeapro

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, simple, but effective!

@moyrmixhub54

2 жыл бұрын

@@brettjockell6611 The cutoff is set to about 3.7k and it looks like the default slope of 24db/oct.

I'll take that. Thank you very much

Super pro tip!

Indeed a neat trick.

Super tricks THX

The king Nelson!

im gonna try this!

Great Tipp

yes sir!❤️

Amazing 🤘

Cool song!

Cool...I enjoyed that song...has a nice vibe...✌💜😃🎸🎤🎧🎹

But I sidechain a lot kick-bass, or others things when needed! But it is a cool trick!! Always great to see!! Thanks guys!!

It would be great if you could do a vocal processing chain step by step on this track. I think this is what most people shoot for in terms of getting the vocals to sit properly in the mix.

I wanna be Marc when I grow up

learned this the hard way esp because i was recording bv's with a 2db high shelf. the buildup was nasty and i didnt realise until id tracked them all. my crude on-the-fly idea was just to cut the sybs really aggressively on all but one or two of the bv tracks. this way is obv way more profesh so thanks for that

Very interesting.........thank you

Thanks 👌

yes sir!👌

Thx you learned alot

@Producelikeapro

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it

Amazing...

Damn, this technique sounds so logical now. When trying to keep the backing vocals in the back, I thought it was a good idea to run a transient controller over them to kill the transients which tend to stand out in the mix where you don't want them, but I never got great results with it.

@Producelikeapro

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! Agreed 100%!

@Knardsh

2 жыл бұрын

I just tried this today actually. Also didn’t work very well.

@Producelikeapro

2 жыл бұрын

@@Knardsh yes, using transient control really is putting a bandaid on a gaping wound!

@Producelikeapro What "in-ear" monitors does Marc use? You see them in a lot of videos so I assume they work well for him but it wasn't covered in the studio tour and I cant find any information elsewhere?

It’s all about the ear! Another secret is to have one track with no effects. Also panning helps too and flangers. Just gotta kno how to level it.

Great tip from MDN. Plus his name is Marc, can't go wrong there!! LMAO

Fantastic idea!... dammit, I wish I woulda thought of that! Seems so obvious once you said it

I have done similar with fabfilter Pro Q-3 using side chain and dynamic eq. Any advantage one vs. the other?

I can totally relate. Esses in delays too can be annoying.

thank you

@Producelikeapro

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome

impressive

Bro i never though about that "deess in the backVocals" never even saw nobody talking about it. Wow thats a good and simple trick.

@Producelikeapro

8 ай бұрын

Marvellous!

I wish that you could elaborate on "keying it". -I think that you're creating a side chain de-esser, using the main vox as a trigger to reduce top freqs of bgrnd vox; and "keying it" is glossed over, and I suspect that it tops the important aspects of this process.

@melo3101

Жыл бұрын

The key is the source that triggers a certain effect : in that case the key is the lead vocal

Hi just a quick question. In this case the backVocals also have a Deeser, but since they all are singing the same "Ss" it'll become a harsh when the lead+backVocals are mixed?

the fairchild in the background is all what im looking at

That's great! It seems like it should be obvious, yet, here I am... 🤯

"It doesn't sound very pleasant" Meanwhile, it's better than anything I have ever produced XD