Going through and analysing / cleaning up vocal harmonies in very intense detail for an artist's new album.
Said artist is wearing headphones as Lee is working with the monitors. She’s been able to catch more of the smaller details, breaths and artefacts as Lee works with the monitor’s (PSI monitors – do it as a research) to hear the piece as a whole as is his personal preference DETAILS Pitch correction artefacts and smaller mistakes in OG vocal harmonies can be exacerbated when used as a basis for the other harmonies. Make sure you’re satisfied with your vocal takes. Lee’s Vocal Plugin = VocAlign (reverb / pitch curves & automation) They’ve been catching smaller compression details and manually automating them down / up when needed. Again, stresses the importance of maintaining vocal consistency in the original recording where possible – it helps to save time during mixing. Most of the session has been going through and cutting out / fading any obvious little breaths or artefacts (mostly cutting out silences between phrases completely). Some of it has been shaping the autotune to make it smoother with the other vocal takes. Make sure to listen to how sections of the track lead into each other after spending a chunk of time mixing a certain part of the track, otherwise you may change it too much! Don’t be afraid to get rid of stuff you’ve recorded for the good of the song. This includes cutting out bass note for bass drops, elongating notes where needed etc. Getting a second opinion on certain mixes is good so you’re not getting too in your own head about it - musical opinions preferably but sometimes just asking someone to compare the pair can help. Standing up and seeing how it sounds from different places in the room (or just stretching) w ceiling buffers… probs quite important… Artist using the headphones she’s more used to / comfortable with while Lee is using BIG speakers / monitors. Micro-shifting = different version of doubling (fake doubling)
Sometimes smaller tweaks are better than outright getting rid of something / changing something e.g. toning down the micro – shifting on the song to adjust the brightness of the vocals BUT also found that a small adjustment on the multiband compressor in the top end helped with this too. Trying not to lose the tone of the song but keep album cohesive…
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