Basics of Vocal EQ (FL Studio 20 Vocal Mixing Tutorial)

what's up geniuses my name is ajo vera and welcome back to this channel where we learned to show your genius now today we're getting back into my vocal mixing basics tutorial last week or last video wasn't necessarily last week i didn't post any videos last week i'm sorry guys anyway last time we were talking about compression i showed you all the basics of compression why you want to use compression on your vocals in the first place but today we're going to be going over something different we're going to be going over eq or equalization so before i get into this i just want to say that all the videos that i post are for free i don't pay anything i don't make crazy courses that are 400 but what i do have is a patreon which you can join to support me the lowest here is five dollars a month and if you want to help me sustain this youtube channel and teach you stuff for free feel free to become a patron you get perks too by the way so super awesome thank you so much i appreciate you and i also appreciate all the love and support that you guys have been showing for my latest single the kid it already almost has a thousand streams on spotify it's amazing you guys are amazing so thank you so much and if you haven't already listen to it feel free to check the i icon up here it'll take you to the song which i think is a pretty good song so feel free to check it out anyway first things first we're gonna be going into fl studio as you can see we have our mixer channel called vocal poopoo and if you don't call your mixer channel's vocal poopoo by right clicking and then clicking rename you are losing already if it's not get out of here so we put in the compression like i explained in the last video which if you haven't already checked it out click the icon so you can see it compression basically just levels out the dynamics of the vocal so it's not super loud or super quiet but next what we're going to be doing is going over to the effects and adding in fruity parametric eq 2. so this is fl studio's eq they have other eq plugins but this is the one most people use i use it all the time what eq is is basically taking certain frequencies within your audio and boosting them up in volume or lowering them in volume to shape the quality of the sound so if you play the vocal recording we have here you'll see the eq will start to light up showing where the frequencies are in this audio you should subscribe subscribe to me now so what's interesting is you're gonna be seeing some frequencies all the way down here in the lower ranges but also in the higher ranges i'm not singing those pitches so why do you see frequencies all over the place well when it comes to the tonality and timbre of sounds there's something called overtones and harmonics and basically with every single sound they're not always going to be on one specific frequency if we're seeing an a which i believe is around like 430 hertz i'll put a correction if i'm wrong but if we sing in a majority of the frequencies are going to be around that a but you're going to be seeing other frequencies in other places as well it's not only going to be at 430 hertz you might see some at 2000 hertz as well and the reason for that is because that's what gives every single sound and even our voices that specific voice so if you compare my voice to morgan freeman's voice if we sang the same note even though it's the exact same note we don't sound the same that's because there's other frequencies inside our voices that are giving us our specific unique qualities this is exactly the reason why a piano playing the same note as a saxophone even though it's the same note it doesn't sound the same so with an eq we're taking specific frequencies of the sound boosting them in volume or lowering them in volume to be able to bring out certain aspects or qualities of the sound and in this case we're doing it to our vocals so with the fruity parametric eq we have this one token right here to control the lower frequencies down here and we have multiple tokens that go up to the higher ones right here so one starts off at the lowest and then seven goes to the highest and there's little parts in between that you can adjust as well so you have multiple options but you don't got to go crazy and that's one thing that i want to emphasize is that eq doesn't take a lot to make something sound better so let's take a listen to this vocal track you should subscribe subscribe to me now the first thing i'm going to do is i'm going to put what is called a high pass filter just by adjusting this up here until i get to that high pass and what this is going to do is going to cut out the low frequencies so that only the highs are passing uh that's why it's called the high pass filter amazing the reason why i'm going to be cutting out the lower frequencies is because as you can see you should subscribe in my voice there isn't even really that many lower frequencies to begin with so i'm cutting them out because i don't want them to be muddying up my song if they don't need to be there so cutting them off is going to be giving my voice a little more of a shimmer and another thing i like to do sometimes to give my voice a little more of that shimmer is go to the seventh band bring it up a little bit so that the higher frequencies are louder making it a little more punchier you should subscribe subscribe to me now now if you listen to my voice something that i don't like about it is that there's this nasally hammering frequency if you catch my drift typically i want to have a more cleaner clear voice and those nasally frequencies diminish that so typically what i'll do with my vocals is find those nasally frequencies and then lower them down so you hear them less making my voice a little more clear you should subscribe so around 1 518 hertz i feel like is where the frequencies are most apparent so i'm going to take this and with my scroll wheel i'm going to make this a little more steeper and lower down this frequency you should subscribe subscribe to me now and as you can hear it already sounds a lot clearer now there's another tonality in my voice that's a little more lower and muddier i guess you could say it's groggy i don't want that there because of the same reasons why i don't want the nasally parts there i want it to be a little more clear usually those groggy frequencies are down here in the lower register so i'm going to be listening for those and taking them out as well you should subscribe subscribe to me now so now if we have a listen with everything together and with all the adjustments it's going to sound a lot cleaner than before you should subscribe subscribe to me now compared to you should subscribe subscribe to me now crazy how much of a difference eq makes now i know if you're just starting off finding out the specific frequencies that you want to remove can be confusing i'm telling you this stuff but i'm sure it gets lost in translation a little bit at least that's how it was for me when i was first starting off a lot of the times i would watch tutorials and just copy and paste exactly what those people did but please please please do not do that with this tutorial when you are applying eq to your voice listen to your voice and figure out which parts you don't necessarily like about it if something sounds a little too weren't for you or a little too whoa for you make sure to go in with your eq look for those frequencies just how i was doing earlier by panning this around and remove the frequencies that are just not good to you you don't have to go extreme there's no need to go crazy but even one or two decibels of removal can make a huge difference in how your voice sounds like i was telling you earlier i usually remove a lot of that low end because it doesn't necessarily need to be there if it's not in my voice in the first place but also i remove a little bit more of that nasally stuff because i feel like it makes my voice sound a little weak and i also remove a little more of the low end so it doesn't sound muddy or groggy and then i bring up the highs just to make sure that my voice has a little more of a sparkle now this is what i do for my voice if you're somebody with a deeper richer voice you might want to keep more of those lower frequencies so that you capture more of that sound you might actually want to remove higher frequencies so that that lower richer radio sound goes through it's all about finding what fits you and your voice and if you're doing this for clients finding out what works best with their voice as well everybody's got a different voice everybody's got a different sound so find your sound figure out what works best for you and another thing i should mention is that every situation is different i don't use the exact same eq with every single one of my songs because with every single song i'm singing differently i'm singing in a different range i'm singing with a different tonality i might be belting my notes and singing really loud or i might be really quiet and singing very softly like billy eilish so take every situation as its own and adjust your eq accordingly these are the big things about eq that i absolutely think you need to know so make sure you continue to practice this stuff and also keep learning don't just look at my tutorials look at other people's tutorials as well telling you to look at other people's tutorials oh my gosh i'm a tutorial list shouldn't i want all the subscribers nah i'm good i just want to help you learn so go watch other people as well don't just take my word for it listen to other people's advice too appreciate you guys so much for watching it honestly means a lot and with all the support going on for my new song the kid man you guys are crazy it's so awesome to see all that support behind the song really means a lot to me seriously if you haven't already listened to it feel free to go check it out in the icon up here and also stream it on spotify i'll be making a video about the ad campaign that i ran for that song in the really near future so make sure you subscribe watch out for that because i post more than just mixing tutorials anyway thank you guys so much for watching really appreciate it stay safe out there make really dope music like i know you guys can but most importantly don't be afraid to show your genius [Music] [Music] nothing has changed

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Length: 9min 25sec (565 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 28 2020