How Pro Engineers Put Effects On Vocals

I'm going to show you how to get your vocal effects sounding super clean without them being washed out with delays and reverbs and no it's not your typical side chaining them out of the way so settle in and I'll show you how so I have a vocal that I've been working on for the last couple of videos that I've shown you now I want to show you how to make it a little bit more interesting the vocal has a lot of gaps in between each word and it sounds quite dry and doesn't have as much impact on the song as I want it to have this is how it sounds now [Music] so you can hear it's got Reverb and stuff on it but it still has got a lot of space in between I want to add a delay to it problem is when you add a delay to it it picks it up on the first transient of the word it just sounds messy and a little bit all over the place this is how it sounds if I just put a delay over the top to cover the whole thing [Music] so you can hear I can't really hear what the words are saying now it's just kind of a blur of DeLay So what I want to try and do is not have the delay on the first part of the vocal but just on the last word of the vocal now I can hear you all screaming at the screen well you just side chain it to duck it down and then the side chain releases once the vocal is finished problem is with this it's not going to be as controlled as we want it to be so what we want to do is a stage before we side chain it we want to just add some vocal automation so that what we're doing we're just releasing the last word of every phrase to the delay the delay is only going to pick up on the last word so as you can see I've made some automation here and I'm just automating this send this is how it sounds a little love so you see I'm just showing the delay that last word so now I've turned the delay on this is going to trigger the delay if you're enjoying this content so far and you want me to make more of it then please drop me a like now and make sure you subscribed to the channel so that I can make more videos like this for you so now that's working lovely it plays and it's just triggering the last one but you'll notice that it's still overlapping the first words here so we want to put a side chain on now to just duck it down when the vocal kicks back in so we get a compressor and we put it back to the audio channel of the vocal so that the compressor will duck the delay when the vocal comes in so it'll sound like this hello I'm calling you are so you can hear that's much cleaner on the vocal we've got it triggering the last word and then the compressor is docking the volume down when the next vocal comes in which makes it super clean and we get a really nice filled space with the delay here's how it sounds with the track before and after [Music] wow [Music] we're falling in and out alone [Music] save you like this and you want to learn how to mix a master like a pro then go to streaky.com where we have our summer sale currently on so if you want to grab yourself one of our courses at about 80 off then get yourself to streaky.com

Channel: Streaky

Views: 99,606

Keywords: delay, vocal delay, how to mix, how to use delay, mixing, mixing vocals, vocal effects, vocals, how to mix with vocal delay, H-delay, waves h-delay, soundtoys, echoboy

Id: iZToEmjulUw

Length: 4min 7sec (247 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 12 2023