| Kjartan Meinseth wrote on Mon, 22 November 2004 05:27 |
I was not thinking about the standard things like HPF or taking out some lowmids,and adding Highs with a shelving.What do you do if the vocal sound brittle or hard?I find it very hard to get rid of nasty freq. in the highmids without it sounding unnatural.I?m not an newbie so don?t give me the standard lekture.
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Hi;
I don't post here much but I sure learn a lot. So thanks for being here ya'll..
I Print vocals for pop and rock with a High pass filter and a comp to keep the levels sorta even with out killing it. {gentle here}. the rest is mic and pre choice. When it comes to getting the vocal to sit in the mix correctly, I find that the arrangement,panning,and carving the guitars,synths and what ever else might be stepping on the vocal is the way to go. In big,dense mixes,something has to be compromised {a lot of things,really} so, depending on the singer,I will try to make Him/Her the last thing I compromise by "making room" for them.. If you are consistently finding an "evil" spot in the vocal sound, something is wrong with how you are recording it. The room,The mic,The pre,the comp, the voice, where he/she stands.distance,something.
One could argue that the moment we reach for an EQ, the sound will be,at least to some extent,unnatural. I mean,It wont sound like it did before. What I am concerned with,is making it sound good. This means different things to different folks on different days. Right? Lecture Over :-}
