OK, OK…finally we get to the fun part! If you’ve read Part I and Part II of Mixing Your Vocals, you’ll know that laying the musical foundation – a great mix on the instrumental tracks – will give you a ‘frame’ for your vocal track. The instrumentals need to enhance, showcase, support your vocal instrument, not distract or cover.
By the way, everything I’m describing in these posts occurs using ProTools recording/editing/mixing software. It’s the industry standard and it’s all I have ever used for my released projects. It works for me.
Start with a completely dry vocal track, that is, a track with no reverb or effects. As I stated in Part I, a good mic and a great room or recording booth will give you a clean, organic vocal slate to begin with.
Oh man, poor Jamie, my engineer on the new CD project. After weeks of vocal sessions, overdubs and do-over sessions, I finally let him know about 10 days ago that OK, I am FINALLY satisfied, somewhat, with my vocals and ready to mix the project. So like a good soldier, he began the mixing process – he would mix a song, send it to me via email so I could listen in iTunes, and then I would email back my comments. And 9 times out of 10 the comments were – “Great mix. But I heard something in my vocals I want to fix – can I come over and do a quickie over-dub of ONE WORD?”
sicians out there – Hire Scott to write for you!! Even though I’ve been writing for years, it is much easier to have someone else write your history. I tried writing my own bio but got so bogged down and oh man I don’t even want to write about my inability to write!! Fagetaboutit, already!!!)
But really –