How Charlie Puth Makes His Vocals SPOTIFY READY

the goal right now is to get some final vocals I'm going to line tune these on Auto-Tune but it's good to get it as clean as possible you really want to get a listener's attention C sharp to the C sharp I'm gonna back away from the mic a little bit maybe sing A Little Bit Stronger starting to get Fuller you can not get super super stoked it takes a while but it's so worth it so the goal right now is to get some final vocals even when the production isn't all the way done but you want to keep yourself excited and a way to do that is to get a final vocal and it's sounding really tight we're going to use vocal line we're going to use autotune or melodyne and but right now we're just going to focus on getting the chorus all nice and tight sounding and we'll continue on from there alright so let's listen to this very robotic sounding scratch demo okay [Music] [Music] okay so the drums come in there still so I think the first logical thing you always want to think about what the hardest thing this thing is first and that's that octave jump from the C sharp to the C sharp hopes up and something that Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson used to do when they were tracking vocals for We Are the World Quincy would have Michael back up from the mic uh and sing it in kind of like different character voices still the same Michael voice but one voice I'm not gonna sing it but One Voice he's singing it's super close to the mics One Voice he'd sing it super far away and then in the middle somewhere so you have that nice blend and that's what we're gonna do but not with the entire course right now we're gonna just do it with the lyric hopes up um and then when I hear that all super clean and vocal lined and timed up correctly I'll get excited to record the rest of the uh chorus so let's get to it why don't we we're gonna mute this chorus vocal [Music] let's do this hmm I have this all in my mind so I'm actually just going to delete that I personally never use playlists I just gets too convoluted and confusing but you can use playlists all right so in order for it to be super clean you have so many Liberties you might as well uh break it up so I'm not even gonna sing Oh upset I'm gonna do oops just hopes um so and you're strong you have a kind of difficult part that you want to make super clean just split it up Ryan Tedder always told me to do that uh in one of his songs he he split up each individual syllable and word and I thought that was very ingenious it gets super punchy [Music] all right so just hopes ho ho hopes hopes I'm gonna sing the up a little bit so it sounds connected when I do connect the two let's start four before metronome I don't know why I got my hair all did up it's gonna get messed up from these headphones anyway [Music] I'm just saying hopes but I'm still leaving that sibilance there because I know I'm going to stay up after it so let's drag it down to our first focal bus Group it sounds like this oops oh let's take the altar boy off oops oops pops up and I'm gonna line tune these on Auto-Tune but it's good to get it as clean as possible oops pops drag this over I'm hearing a buzzing I think it's from one of my keyboards let's let me turn that off really quickly so much better oops oops hubs so you want to kind of like we did in the last Lesson by lining up drums you want to take that same approach by lining up vocals oops oops I mean we have every resource they used to have to do this with tape and if you messed up you'd get fired so now we have virtual tape so we can make as many splices as we can so we might as well use it to our advantage oops let's do another hopes [Music] okay drag that down here [Music] it's louder so you can hear it [Music] this s I'm going to drag over and line it up with this s here focal line is a really great tool but nothing is a better tool than your eye and a physical cursor [Music] there we go [Music] still leaving the S at the end let's do two more hopes I'm gonna back away from the mic a little bit oh maybe sing A Little Bit Stronger [Music] hubs [Music] all right let's do this [Music] lining it up as so even the end [Music] one more [Music] starting to get Fuller you can and I get super super stoked when it starts to sound like a clean group of vocals oops you know and these last two I'm gonna sing like you got to pretend like you're a different person uh uh because if you're just making this alone uh and you only have your vocal texture you got to kind of pretend to be someone else so just uh put and format your voice a little bit like so it's gonna be so my voice would be like oh so I'm gonna instead go hope and you're gonna get a different vowel shape and it's going to blend really nicely I'm gonna give myself some more pre-roll oh [Music] oh that was actually good I like that [Music] so just soloing all these this is what we have we have it takes a while but it's so worth it you want something to take a while because if it's going to be around forever you want to listen to it forever oops hops hops these are just C sharp so I'm gonna take in we'll just do uh Advance Auto Tune let's just take the E flat out let's take the C so it's super clean drag that down drag that down drag that down drag that down drag that down hops hopes hopes now we're gonna do the up up up but okay so here's the thing about my voice uh if maybe if I had a better voice or like a wider voice on like the top range of things I'll sometimes do this with my voice where I'll sing a lower note and then pitch it up because the vowel shape will be a little bit more consistent um with what I'm singing so if I sing uh it's gonna sound kind of thin and nasally but maybe instead let's just solo record and then oops let's turn the auto tune on up up up up let's sing an a natural because if I transpose that a natural up to a C sharp it'll sound it'll sound better it's hard to explain but turn the metronome on up up up I'll do it again like that last one [Music] go into your audio Suite [Music] you're gonna go up four format it one two three four um put it in graph so it's not hitting any tune nice and clean let's see here so you want I'll make this bigger so you can see you want to blend the end of that s into your up like this oh that sounds robotic you don't want that so you just drag it over a little bit oh stop s and it's okay if it sounds a little cutty there because it's only one layer oops [Music] so it'll make more sense when you add another one to it let's do another one we did a natural what's up pops up [Music] I like that one take go back to audio Suite I don't know why I xed it out um I find this so fun I really do it's like super entertaining and while we're at it let's just take that and hops up line tune that make it super on the grid what's up boom there just a little glitch hopes up up so now I have said I'm gonna bring this over here and blend this one now this one should sound a little bit more natural let's see oops and still sounds a little bit you wouldn't like have that as like the lead but we have four more to do oops let's do it for real now let's put this auto tune back on offset [Music] and then bring it down [Music] one more [Music] clean [Music] and now in kind of our goofy voice like Michael McDonald [Music] get that air in there [Music] and one more [Music] and finally [Music] it's pretty good I would do more but we won't go too crazy [Music] Let's Go Crazy two more now let's do it for real like hopes up and think about it you'll be recording one lead vocal before this and look forward to a nicely grouped vocal coming up to it so hopes up [Music] so that Supernatural one is going to be Blended in with these kind of Frankenstein ones I also just realized that these are not at zero now it'll sound better okay so we have one layer of hopes UPS plural uh with the super attacky uh nasally kind of thing now we want to add like four hopes up to the baby face method helps [Music] and this is doing this is going to glue it all together my songs you again had 180 background vocals on the chorus so we won't do that right now but you get the point I love background vocal layers [Music] once it sound like Tears for Fears ah now we're getting somewhere I think two more and we're good to a lot of bullets we're gonna drag the record channel down staying organized [Music] again I could easily auto tune these but you don't want them to sound super robotic that's why I'm trying to get taking extra care to make it as clean as possible from the get-go [Music] I have some Reverb on this B track here so it's uh so here the difference between this layer let's take out the C natural because I hear myself kind of hitting a c natural advanced take the C natural out um all the way down [Music] so those are a little more gentle and these a little bit more in your face pops up and together you have a nice group I might even go as far as at the very very end of the breathy chain just taking a little lows out hopes up this is before this is after hopes up just just a little thinner I think that sounds good so I can copy and paste that to the next part [Music] starting to come together okay so to recap we started off with the hardest part of the song which was kind of gluing together these very far apart notes these right here they sound kind of unnatural but you don't need to really worry about that because you're going to double it a bunch of times with oh actual times that you do it so when you mend the two together it sounds like you did it perfectly which is the goal of course um there was one layer which is like the frontal nasally kind of layer and then we layered that layer with a more breathy layer which is this right here took a little bit of lows off that added some uh additional Reverb right on the channel and then when you put it together it sounds like this [Music]

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Length: 16min 1sec (961 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 21 2023