How To Mix Vocals in Cubase 12 like a pro Tutorial in 2022

hello everyone my name is chris keller and i'm a music producer from kappa central province of zambia so welcome to my tutorial session and today we're just going to try and talk about how you can easily mix female vocals in uh cubis 12 pro that's one of the latest version if not the latest version around so i'm just going to go ahead and play you something you know that that will be working on so i'm going to start by playing the beat alone so we listen to what we have [Music] [Music] okay so um as you've had you know obviously the beat is louder than the vocals on this track so um the first thing i'm going to do is route every vocal into the specific uh group channels so that we we can easily you know stay organized you know so the first thing i'm going to do is create um um a group channel and make sure the configuration is not on mono because the effects that we're going to use uh some better one than stereo so make sure your your your configuration there is in stereo and we're just going to name this let's keep it vox for now and we're going to add three tracks so we have vox one we can rename this to our verse or all this will have all our vocals coming from the verse area and then this we're carrying them to mix this is and then this will just name it as final so and the next thing to do now is to route all the vocal channels from there because you can tell right now um it's saying stereo out so we have to route all these channels into this channel so i'm going to but in this case we're only going to mix the the leading vocal in in this chorus we won't touch the backings so let me go ahead and highlight the the leading vocals on this chorus part area and then make sure while you're high to highlight hold shift and make sure while you are highlighting you also click alt on your pc and come here click there while you're still holding shift and alt and then make sure to press uh verse this will route all these vocal channels into the verse group channel and now what we're going to do is route the verse group channel into the mix group you know and then from there we'll route the mix into the final okay so for now i'll mute all the channels that i'm going to use so i'll mute this and mute the backings and the channel okay all right okay can we mute this one okay now we set okay so now after doing that just to make sure that you did the right thing i'm going to play i'm going to mute the beat for now and then play the vocals alone [Music] okay so as you noticed [Music] from this information this audio is being shown on all these group channels meaning we did the right thing so make sure they're showing up the signals is being shown on all these channels so from here the next thing to do is go into the verse channel open it up and i'm going to play it baby [Music] okay so as i mentioned the vocals were lower than the beat so the first thing to do now is to add some volume by simply going into this scent area and click the stereo out once that is done activate it and you are done so let me let's compare the volume now that we live baby [Music] the way that you treat me though so already you can tell those uh you know some some boost in volume right just by doing that so that's good because you always want to lift the volume in small amount if you want to get clean mixes so right now i'm just going to go ahead and remove some of the background noise that are being heard in this vocal by using a get and i recommend using the ns1 by webs so we are still in the first group channel so let's play that baby life is so natural i always go model for you the way that you treat me the way that you love me i always go mad over you you are the only one i want okay i think at this stage 10 is is somehow enough we increase it if we need it's more clear later on as we add more plugins so the next thing to do is add a pitch corrector because to control the pitch in the vocal so we're going to add autotune i recommend using autotune for artist and then once it opens up um set the key of the song on this vocal so in this on this track the vocal was being played in g minor if i'm not mistaken so let me play just to confirm [Music] the way that you treat me the way that you love me i always go mad over you you are the only one i want uh okay so as you can tell that the key on this autotune or pitch corrector is correct and i increase the humanize so that the vocal sounds more you know natural and then i i reduce the tracking to 100 to make it more relaxed and then now uh as you could tell we have some frequencies that need to be cleaned so to to sort that out we will need to introduce an equalizer but in this case i won't use a stock plug-in you can use a stock plug-in you know it's okay you can still use this area but uh for this project i'm going to use the virtual an equalizer from the virtual mix rack by slide digital so let me just remove this okay so i'm going to look for an eq and i'm going to use a fgn so let me just play that that will leave baby life is so natural i always go minded for you the way that you treat me the way that you love me i always go mad over you you are the only one i want i only wanna care for goku see up every night one so i always be your hero baby baby life is so natural i always go mind over it okay i'm going to leave this at 200 this is a lot of cutting i know but you soon understand once i'm done with everything we're going to bring back some of those cut out lows in the vocal so from here i'm going to go to our low mid and boost some 200 hairs there to bring back some of that lost body in the vocal that we live baby love is so natural i always go for you the way that you treat me the way that you love me i think someone is okay and then cut out some meats there that we live our life is so natural i always go for you the way that you treat me the way that you and then we're going to cut out some to two point two k that we live people life is so natural i always go minded for you that we live baby life is so natural i always go model for you the way that you treat okay and then i'm going to boost up back some some some highs to bring back to put to add some pressure to the vocal and some air a bit of air baby life is so natural i always go mind over you the way that you treat me the way okay so let's just bypass this and see the difference so this is off all right let me bypass it from there [Music] the way that you treat me the way that you love me i always go mad over you awesome i'm sure if you're using the right pair of headsets uh you you you must have noticed that you know how much cleaner and you know more clear the vocal became so that's what you need to do you know just slight changes make a big difference most of the time so let me just mute the vocal b before this okay so right now let's try to play it with the beat [Music] okay so the the vocal is okay but as you can tell it's still you know low so to increase the volume on the on the vocal i'll introduce a compressor dynamic compressor excuse me and we're going to use the fg 116 and we'll use a fast attack okay let me try to increase it first [Music] so as you can tell the vocal became loud but then from as you can see there's no activity on this meter so that means you know it's not really active enough yet so too we need to increase the attack on this because it means that the attack on this vocal is very slow [Music] [Music] okay that's good so you you obviously notice it moved and it moved because it was trying to maintain you know the high peaks in the vocal it was cutting them down to a level that was you know uh consistent you know so that you don't have to have those drastic uh increase in in volume so this is why we need a compressor to make sure that the vocal is consistent on most areas so i'll leave it there for now at 24 and then introduce probably uh ring what is it i don't know how you pronounce it revolver where you at okay so add a revolver just to add some of that body you know in the vocal so some thickness to it [Music] the way that you treat me the way that you love me you are the only one i only want to care for okay so that's good but if you notice let me switch off the beat if you notice right now we've introduced some a lot of siblings on the vocal so we'll need to bring in a dslr to control some of those unwanted siblings in the vocal so let me try to bring in the fab filter okay i'm going to use the stock plugin by by cubis the dslr and then just lift the reduction all the way up that's into that first of all let me mute it baby life is so natural i always go minded for you the way that you treat me the way that you love me i always go mad over you you are the only one i want baby love is so natural i always go mad over you the way that you treat me the way that you love me i always go mad over you you are the only one i want okay um i just want to compare how this other fab filter work and we'll see which one will sound better so this is uh diesel by fab filter baby love is so natural i always go minded for you the way that you treat me the way that you love me i always go mad over you you are the only one i want i only wanna care for you every night one so i always be your hero about life is so natural i always go okay i think i love the five filter dsmo so uh from here i'm just going to go into the mix channel and uh reduce let me play with the beat again [Music] okay now i'm going to bring in um the vocal flagging by chris lord where you at okay okay um but before i do that let me mute it for now um i'm still hearing some you know laws in the vocal and i'm sure it will appear from here so let's play that again without the beat in the in the vocal love is so natural so as you can see this area is showing some presence of of of laws in the that were introduced because of the boosting and everything so we need to take care of that we need to cut it out so we're going to activate this low band and choose the high pass filter and then just increase this oil up all the way to around 5. so as you notice just by doing that that low presence that we we were seeing before this one has now disappeared just by doing that so we basically cut off some of those laws that we didn't want in the to be present in the vocal so now we're going to cut out some means also in this vocal love is so natural i always go mind over you the way that you treat me the way that you love me i always go mad over you you are the only one i want i only wanna care for google every night so i always be your hero just to uh take care of those um you know the boxiness in the vocal so this is what i did why i did that to cut out some of those unwanted box this in the vocal so next thing i'm going to do is cut out you know some maybe 4k somewhere there baby love is so natural i always go mando for you the way that you treat me the way that you love me i always go mad over you you are the only one i want i only wanna care for google the way that you treat me the way that you love me i always go mad over you you are the only one i want i only wanna care for google okay that's good um let me just add the dsl because i noticed um still hearing some uh sibilance in the vocal so i'm going to put this now before the autotune and let's listen to that baby life is so natural i always commando for you the way that you treat me the way that you love me i always go mad over you you are the only one i want i only wanna care for goku see up every night okay that's much better so now the next thing we're going to do is uh introduce um the vocal um effect by chris lodes so here we are and then um mute everything uh you know that is activated we can leave the byte on okay let's keep it off then switch on the bez let's see how much we can cut off from there again baby love is so natural i always commando for you the way that you treat me the way that you love me i always go mad over you you are the one sit on some bite some treble baby life is so natural i always go for you okay i like this let me just try to introduce uh okay let me go back to the same plugin is it where you at okay so let me switch on now the compressor to make it louder but to do this let me play the beat together so the way that you treat me the way that you love me i always go mad over you you are the only one the way that you treat me the way that you love me i always go mad over you you are the only one i want i only wanna care for who could see up every night so i always be your hero baby [Music] [Music] okay i like what i'm hearing but um if i'm sure you've also noticed you know like like we still need some presents in the vocal some a on it so i'm going to add an eq just before this plugin um eq um my personal favorite for this is you know the rs 56 and then in here you can go check out this preset called uh male vocal boost you know so let's play that the way that you treat me the way that you love me [Music] [Music] so i i reduced the highs there to about four dbs you know so that was a 4 db post high post which is this basically so in here we also have a 3 db boost in the 200 you know just to keep the you know the vocal a bit more you know you know thick you know like the body of it so now that we have that i'm just going to reduce this volume a bit down maybe negative two do for now [Music] yeah i like that so the next thing that we can do from here is probably add a delay right before right before the vocal plugin by by chris lord and then i'm going to use the ping pong so let me just okay so it's already okay let me slow this up let's listen to that and i'm going to use the 1 8th note delay style let's listen to that [Music] so i always [Music] you are the only one i want i only wanna careful go see up even if i'm one so i always be your hero baby baby life is so natural i always commando for you i know right yeah dub so let's listen to that with the bit and see what we have now [Music] [Music] that's dope and basically just doing that i don't know about you but you can and here though everything else that you can add to this is simply optional you know like i can add some flanger you know again you try try out some flanger like let me try it out we see how it comes out so let's look for a flanger so i usually put most effects like delay flanges and those stuff like that before the the vocal plug-in you know so we're just basically adding this just to add some that juice to it you know so um but in this case we'll be adding very low amounts so let's listen to that [Music] so i always [Music] let me try to add um i think from here then the next thing and i think i think that's okay for now the only thing probably i'll add is this you know in the final group channel is usually the ssl compressor you know usually use i usually use the mastering preset you know so let's listen [Music] you are the only one okay just stop and then i'm going to add the l2 just to control to make you know to help the vocals the consistent you know throughout you know so let's play that the way that you treat me the way that you love me so i've noticed some parts are going a bit low so i'll add the auravox just to make the vocal a bit [Music] loud that you love me [Music] [Music] so i always [Music] the way that you treat me the way that you love me so basically like i said a lot of things that you can do to make your vocal sound better louder you know and these are some of the main steps that you can try out so hope you learned something from from my tutorials and catch you next time

Channel: Chris kellah

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Length: 27min 40sec (1660 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 27 2022