10 Best VST Plugins For Vocal Mixing (2023) | Waves Edition!

[Music] hey guys welcome back to another video and if you're new here my name is edward smith and welcome to my youtube channel and in today's video we're going to be looking at the top 10 best wage plug-ins that you can get for mixing vocals in 2022 and how you can really get your vocals to stand out in the mix especially if you're doing this in a home studio environment [Music] so before we jump into these waves plugins i would first like to ask you to please smash the like button down below and subscribe to this youtube channel as i do have a goal of reaching a hundred thousand subscribers by the end of this year and there is no way i can do that without you secondly if you're interested in any of the plugins we're going through in today's video i will leave some links down in the description below and then lastly make sure you stick around all the way till the end because the last three plugins that i'm going to show you are plugins that i use every single day for vocal mixing and microphone comparison mixing and all of those kinds of things there's three plugins that are going to change the game for you when you're mixing your vocals the first plugin that we can have a look at that's really great for vocal mixing especially if you're starting out is voice centric and the reason i like this plug-in is because it already includes a delay a double and a reverb and you usually use this effect separately but to have a plug-in that gives you an input and levels and output and all of these effects on the side really makes it easy just to throw on a vocal and you really get an atmosphere and effect especially with other instruments already playing i also really like the presets of this plug-in especially if you don't understand the plug-in at first you can just pop on one of these presets and see which one fits best with your voice and your mix and usually the results are really really good let's have a listen to the before and after of how effective this voice centric plug-in is stuck in situations always gotta be the one to lie just another location same lines i say yes all the time oh man all these people faking trying to impress me i ask why is this really what you want to be just back up and live your life so you can really hear the difference that this plug-in makes when it adds that atmosphere especially when you play it with the music it makes such a big difference and it just brings your vocal to life the next plugin that we can have a look at is cla vocals by crystal algae who is the mixing engineer was the mixing engineer for green day and his plugins is so so good because there's so much versatility happening here you have a bass treble compress reverb delay and pitch option and again there's a lot happening in one individual plugin but it's great if you just want to throw it onto a vocal get some effects happening and have a mood and then later on go into the finer details when you really want to get that detailed vocal mix just to give you an idea of how effective this plugin is i'm gonna go through the vocal and just switch between each fade and just show you exactly how much versatility you have with this one individual plug-in situations always gotta be the one to lie just another location same lines i say i saw the time oh man all these people faking trying to impress me i ask why is this really what you wanna be just back up and live your life stuck in situations always gotta be the one to lie just another location same lines i say yes all the time oh man all these people faking trying to impress me i ask why is this really what you want to be just back up and live your life now for the before and after stuck in situations always gotta be the one to lie just another location same lines i say i saw the time oh man all these people faking trying to impress me i ask why is this really what you wanna be just pack up and live your life again with only one plugin you're getting so much versatility moving on to the next plugin that's one of my absolute favorites is the ssl e channel and i use this plugin on pretty much all of my vocals because there's so much versatility here you have filters compressors you have a beautiful eq that helps you get detail when it comes to getting your song to stand out in a mix and it's really just one of the best plugins to go for if you want to get great sounding vocals the presets that you get with this plugin as well is also just fantastic you can use it for way more than just vocals as well but you have so many options here especially if you don't understand all the knobs it's great to just pick a preset and go from there stuck in situations always gotta be the one to lie just another location same lines i say i saw the time oh man all these people faking trying to impress me i ask why is this really what you wanna be just back up and live your life this is just an awesome plugin to have to get that vocal to stand out of the mix before you worry about reverb and delay and really the detail of the eq with this ssle channel is just amazing now the next plugin that we can have a look at is maybe more of a tool for music production and vocal production instead of mixing but it's definitely a tool that you can use to get your vocal to have a little bit more foundation and just support the lead vocal and that plug-in is ovox just to give you guys an idea of what this plugin can do [Music] as you can hear this plugin has some of the craziest features but the reason i like it for vocal mixing is just to add that foundation to my lead vocal and make it sound a lot bigger take me away to a little paradise place where i can be myself every day don't need to worry about tomorrow turn up the music and just let it play i might have to say i'm sorry to leave behind these mistakes i'm holding on to your body hope you'll go and lead the way take me away to a little paradise place where i can be myself every day don't need to worry about tomorrow turn up the music and just let it play i might have to say i'm sorry to leave behind these mistakes i'm holding on to your body i feel go and lead the way definitely a super creative plugin for vocals the next plugin that we can have a look at that i use a lot when it comes to vocal recording is waves vocal rider and this plugin just helps get a better overall balance throughout your entire vocal where you have parts that are maybe too loud or positive or too soft it just brings those together and kind of acts like a compressor but it doesn't add any saturation or coloration so it's just helping the levels and getting a constant level throughout the entire vocal and on this specific plugin i have it set between 3 db and -3 db so we have about a 6 db range of just this fader jumping in between and just getting us that constant level that we really want throughout our vocal turn up the music and just let it play i might have to say i'm sorry to leave behind these mistakes i'm holding on to your body i feel go and lead the way so like i said with this plugin you're not getting any coloration or saturation that you would with a compressor all it's doing is just getting us better sounding levels for a more consistent vocal now the next plugin that we're gonna have a look at is a plug-in that i use in most of my vocal mixes and that is h delay and this plugin has so many features delay feedback drying weight output analog filters modulation and the simple thing i love about this plug-in that's so so good compared to other delay plug-ins is the ping-pong effect i like to have that bounce between the headphones and with this specific vocal you'll hear what a big difference this ping pong effect really has take me away to a little paradise place where i can be myself every day don't need to worry about tomorrow turn up the music and just let it play i might have to say i'm sorry to leave behind these mistakes i'm holding on to your body i feel go and lead the way take me away to a little paradise place where i can be myself every day don't need to worry about tomorrow turn up the music and just let it play i might have to say i'm sorry to leave behind these mistakes i'm holding on to your body i feel go and lead the way as you can hear with this plug-in your vocal gets a little bit more of an atmosphere and it definitely doesn't sound as dead as it would without it now we move on to the last three waves plugins that i like to use for vocal mixing and one of those plugins is the h reverb this reverb plugin is really cool with your reverb time in the middle here you have your pre-delay build up size your tail your dry weight your output and the presets you also get with this plugin is really really nice as well especially if you're starting out you don't understand the plugin at first you can just pick one of these and see which one fits your vocal based and the rest of your mix very well take me away to a little paradise place where i can be myself every day don't need to worry about tomorrow turn up the music and just let it play i might have to say i'm sorry to leave behind these mistakes i'm holding on to your body i feel go and lead the way take me away to a little paradise place where i can be myself every day don't need to worry about tomorrow turn up the music into steady play i might have to say i'm sorry to leave behind these mistakes i'm holding on to your body if you go and lead the way take me away definitely a great plugin to create that atmosphere around your vocal and make it sound a lot bigger the second last plugin that i like to use for all my vocal mixing that's really simple but very effective is the cla2a compressor from waves and this plugin is really simple it just has a gain and peak reduction but when it comes to getting your vocal to stand out in the mix you just pop this on you pick a cool preset you go from there and it makes such a big difference take me away to a little paradise place where i can be myself every day don't need to worry about tomorrow turn up the music and just let it play i might have to say i'm sorry to leave behind these mistakes i'm holding on to your body i feel go and lead the way take me away to a little paradise place where i can be myself every day don't need to worry about tomorrow turn up the music into steady play i might have to say i'm sorry to leave behind these mistakes i'm holding on to your body i feel gold lead the way as you can hear this plugin definitely brings out your vocal and even though it's so simple it really makes your vocals stand out the final plugin that we can have a look at is another versatile plugin with so many cool features that i think is awesome for those of you starting out looking to get one plugin that can do a lot and a plugin that i am talking about is the jjp vocals which includes so many features from a dslr compressor highs in those kind of eq sensitivity you can even pick it for a male male 2 or female style vocal and also quite a few presets here just a cool plugin with a lot of features that is that one kind of plugin you throw on a vocal and it's doing a lot let's run through some of the presets and see what this plugin can do don't need to worry about tomorrow turn up the music and just let it play i might have to say i'm sorry to leave behind these mistakes i'm holding on to your body i feel go and lead the way take me away to a little paradise place where i can be myself every day don't need to worry about tomorrow turn up the music and just let it play i might have to say i'm sorry to leave behind these mistakes i'm holding on to your body i feel go and lead the way so definitely a very cool all-in-one vocal mixing plug-in so that brings this video to an end of my top 10 best waves plugins that i like to use when mixing vocals and just a reminder if you're interested in any of these the links will be down in the description below if any questions about today's video just leave a comment down below and i'll try and get back to you as soon as i can but other than that thank you guys so much for watching this video if you enjoyed it please do give it a thumbs up and if you loved it subscribe down below and i will see you for another video next [Music] cry for a time for you

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Length: 13min 8sec (788 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 14 2022