Hi Friends, I started Produce Like A Pro to give back as much information as I could. The 5 Mix Tricks Series is my way of packing as much information into one video as clearly as I can. The response has been fantastic, I love reading your comments and suggestions as they help us all out! Knowing how you mix and master in your DAW helps us all so much!! Please continue to comment on the videos and share them! It helps grow this incredible community that we have! Every day I open up KZfaq and see another ‘Mixing Vocals’ video! This is not just another one of those videos I want this 5 Vocal Mixing Tricks Video to really help elevate your Vocal Mixing!

These quick tips are absolutely fantastic. Never heard most of them before and they 100% help. Thank you for this

Glad I'm not the only one doing a lower octave trick, not all the time though, but it can seriously help get the vocal to sound closer and bigger! Great video as always, have a nice day!

Warren, you have basically taught me everything I know about producing my music at home, and it was your review of the Scarlett Studio bundle that started me off. Keep your videos coming :)

Brilliant and so sweet of you to share these 'secrets'. I've come to use a lot of them, thank you a bunch.

Thanks as always. What a good singer!

I'm mixing a project right now and these quick mixing tips are SUPER helpful. They just give me some ideas to try where I can jump in and move things around and hear the differences in really pleasant ways. Thank you!

Good, good stuff, Warren! I've recently started using those same ideas (from you) in a few mixes. Makes a world of difference.

Ces astuces sont un régal ça donne pleins d'idées 👌🏾💪🏾👍🏾

Great video once again that octave thing I've never heard about, so tomorrow I become a scientist and experiment a plenty! Godspeed

Hi Warren ,thanks for these brilliant videos and awesome tips ,i always learn amazing things from you ,be well my friend and thanks again for your excellent channel, Darren ross.

One of the neat features of Studio One is something called the inspector which is a mini mixer/console inside the whole thing. And it has something called Event FX. (in S1 events are what is called clips I think in Pro tools...a section of a track.) So I will often use multiple different effects like delay, deessing, reverb using this feature. Great trick Warren and loads of fun as it allows for surprises, unexpected things which keep the song interesting. The octave lower did catch me off guard...usually I'm trying to reove low end to avoid mud and much in the mids from guitars, snare and so on. Have to see how that works with my cranky little voice.. Have a Bodacious Day.

Man love your stuff. Really helps 🙌🙌

Very useful tips! The cheatsheet is amazing as well!

Thanks ever so much Warren for yet another superb demonstration of vocal production techniques, it is very much appreciated. Kindest Regards as always, Gerry.

Hi Warren, another great video! I like tip #4, very cool!

just like magic.....watching you work

I love the "multiverb"!!! I need to try that!

I don't always agree with your tips and opinions, but for some reason I always smile when watching your videos. Keep up the good vibe!

Thanks for sharing these awesome tips and tricks Warren. Love this channel

Massive thank you for putting me on to Lo-Fi... I had no idea this program existed, but literally no other "bit-crusher" type plugins have the character this plugin has. All of the others I've tried are either too subtle, or too aggressive and crappy sounding, but Lo-Fi really nails the character of older sampling type units. Im excited to try some of the other ones to see if they're as quality as this one is. Cheers!

Thank you for going a little slower on this one. I use Reaper, so it takes me a minute to catch up on some of these tips. Cheers from South of the border; Orange County :-)

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you, Warren! 😀

How about doing a Video talking about Mastering, What are the goals for a Good Balance in Final Audio? Thank you.

“This is the one that’s gonna scare some people, so let’s scare some people.” (referring to lower octave on vocals) Haha, well done Warren! Terrific production tips and tricks, as always! Many thanks!

i have to re-watch all of your videos now... because FINALLY i got real Studio-Monitors! (Yamaha HS8) And again: thx 4 all your marvelous work and amazing content!

the vocal effect of whispering that tip is asome!!! I lern here

Awesome tips Warren! I really like the one about boosting the high end and use the de esser and then repeating the same process. This tip as well as the other ones will greatly help me out! Also can you use that tip for male vocals? I hope you have a wonderful day!

I like the low octave technique. If you had a singer like Barry White though, it might blow up your speakers! 😀

What a cool series!💟

Thanks Warren! Not just for the valuable insight, but also for the way you clearly and concisley explain the concepts. I found this one particularly helpful as I've been struggling lately to make my vocal tracks stand out as the centerpiece of the mix. Today I used Saturation, Slap delay & High boost followed by a de-esser and the difference is AMAZING. Keep up the great work.

MARH-VEL-LOUS! Thank you Warren!!

Great Lesson Warren!

these 5 quick tricks are gold.. keep em coming

Very nice Warren. I have to join your PLP group soon. I have learned so much from you.

Good stuff thanks for the info she has a beautiful voice.

amazing content as usual so helpful!

I am a simple man, I see a Warren video, I give it a like

Your video's are marvellous. Very helpful.

Thankyou, I hope I encouraged this video from the question I has asked previously. I see that it depends on the style and genre of what the Vocalist/Band is going for, as well as the Engineer(s) &/or Producer(s) artistic interpretation/discretion - input/output, that help the Vocalist/Band out with their audio aesthetics and direction. From what I gather too, continual consultation on both sides is a must, this shows professionalism by all involved, encouraging a very trusting relationship, for a far better polished product and alot of happy faces at the end of the day for future patronage all round if and when needed again. It was very interesting to see this, so I have a better understanding, and as such, TF I can read between the lines on occasions LOL. Keep up the good work Mr Huart and Cheers. :)

Nice episode.. I love ur presentation and ur tip thank u warren..

Hope you're doing marvelously well in all the heat today. If I was to make up a list like yours, I would put @ #1......Make sure you have a great singer. By that I mean trained, experienced, & good fit for the job @ hand, and doesn't have "the attitude".....then, everything else would work so much smoother.....Example....I'd rather have Norm from This Old House do a rebuild on my house than Uncle Festus, even tho he means well...Have a great day :)

Real good knowledge for my brain.

As always....Love your work

Always the best tips out there Warren!

Thank you thank you THANK YOU!

"This is the one that usually scares people...so let's scare some people" #thuglife 😂😂😂

Thank you for all of your knowledge you give us!

Hi Warren, I’ve just come across your videos and they are fantastic! They are very very helpful and incredibly interesting. There are so many great tips and tricks and you make everything clear and accessible. By the way I’m ordering some guitar strings so I can try the Nashville tuning technique. Thanks again!

Love it! Time to go and fix some things in my last vocal recordings that I knew could be improved. :)

Hi Warren, since I started mixing 5 years ago, I have found I make better decisions in all other aspects of my life. Have you found this to be true? I guess it's something about becoming efficient in recognizing when stuff works and when it doesn't and the work flow we develop for this in mixing bleeds into our daily life. Keep up the great work!

Amazing tips, thank you so much!

Love boosting the highs, but sometimes the De-Esser isn't enough to get rid of the harsh S's so in that case go in and manually knock a few DBs off the S's with automation! Great video Warren

I don't know if you've done this before Warren and I Missed it, but in 2005 we did a CD and we went to a local studio and laid down 10 songs in an 8 hour session, but a vocal trick I used was I would duplicate the main Vocal Track and nudge it back about two or three keyboard back arrow keys and it would give almost a slap back delay with no decay. I'm sure you probably done this, we were on a very strict budget, really thickened up the vocals and was almost unperceivable. I even did it on the background harmonies. Like I said you've probably done it. It was like a slap back echo with no effect at all.

Thanks so much Warren:)

Very Inspirational video. Will certainly try everything.🖒

Awesome tutorial Warren, thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge!!

i noticed u kept the ik multimedia micro monitors.

Thank you! This is inspiring and such good information! ✌🏻💪🏻😊

Would like to see the octave down teqhnique combined with a dynamic eq or sidechain compressor trigger by the kick/bass.

By the way, thank you so much for these videos!

Great tips!

Tks a lot mate. You Always save me

awesome, a great vocal too is chaka khan i feel for you, great slap n verb

I saw in a video james hetfield from metallica using lower octave trick in his vocal when mixing.Then ı start to use it.I use waves doubler one octave up one octave down Works well at main vocals.

Thank you, dear David Hasselhoff.

Thank you! Now I know that the sound that i was looking for was achieved through short delay.

Thank you so much! Appreciate this vid

do you use whisper tracks also?i like the vocals of justin bieber, always so warm and spacy,what kind of effects do you think they use on his vocal Huart?

Hi Warren.I have questions.I was looking at a technique that saturates only the high Frequency.Must use Hp filter. Again Add sound to original. Effect name is "sparkle". Used if you lost live feeling.I try on male vocal, working fine. My question is do you make same saturation frequency for male and female vocals.

Subscribed! I thought my New years eve would be a bummer because of a flu and lying in bed whole night but this was exciting and interesting in many levels. Thanks for great mixing advice! :)

On this great female vocalist, you dropped in 12 semi-tones down. What do you do with male vocalist, obviously not the opposite or do you? Great session, as always. I've embarked on remixing my 60-70 tunes using tips I've learned over the past couple years. Massive job!

Fabulous. Love it ;-}

Warren! Such a marvelous video! I wonder if you could explain your routing and templates someday, could you? :)) If you already have a video about this, sorry, I didn't knew! Have a wonderful day!

Warren - In regards to your point about the slap delay effect on the vocal, why would you make a separate aux track instead of inserting onto the vocal channel and using the dry/wet control to mix in the effect?

Some of you may be thinking 'I don't even hear a difference' with what he is doing. Let me tell you, you are almost right. Tweaking a vocal takes a lot of subtle movement to make it sound a certain way, and depending on what else is going on with the mix. When you start trying these, you will notice at the end how far your vocals have gone when all those little steps, layers and effects come together, I promise you! The best mixing (sometimes unfortunately) is when the listener can't pick out all these different effects distinctly, but just hears a cohesive, balanced, amazing vocal and mix.

You're great ...

Lower octave is particularly useful for when you want your composition to double as a ransom demand ... ;P

Wow!

TOP TOP THE BEST .

Was that vocal like side chaining into the Vox Sub channel? Curious to how that effect was routed to the vocal. (Reaper User)

I'm mixing a track with a less then stellar vocal in all senses, I need anything that can help, the rest of the track is slapping!

Hi Warren, can you please in your next video talk about how "hope you're doing Marvelous.. " intro came to be? 😁 Would love to hear that.

I loved the part where you said "The best part of digital is that its clean & the worst part of digital is it that its clean..!!" Good one that :D

LOVE the high boost/DS trick. Would you have a totally separate buss for that, or use it on the octave track?

yes just work it do more on vocals thank you warren

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The mix is good because your sources is good how you got a high quality sources? It’s the preamp, the microphone or both?

Did you know Klanghelm has a saturation plug-in? The IVGI is the free version. Not sure if it produces the sound your looking for here but it came to mind. --- The low octave did scare me as it made me think of, "It puts the lotion on the skin." (Silence of the Lambs).

I like Tip #4 about boosting and controlling the high-end. I'm just wondering, can this technique be performed just using the new Waves F6 plugin?

What's more recommended when using time based effects (delays/reverbs) to use them in mono or stereo?? I've been for some time using them exclusively in stereo thinking that is better but it seems many people use them in mono. my concern is mainly with reverbs.

What I’d love to know is how audio engineers in the late sixties got great mixes from limited pre SSL boards.

Dumb beginners question here: What' the advantage of adding effects (vocal distortion/thickening for example) to a bus instead of adding directly to the vocal track insert directly? You videos are great, BTW.

i used the same lo-fi settings and it was wayyy distorted :(

I am for simplicity. I just use Izotope Nectar presets until I find the one I like and tweak from there.

I have one question. What do you use for recording your voice in your tutorial so that I can hear it clearly also when you turn around your head 90 degrees?

I don´t know if i´ve understood it right. So we can use different effects the same kind of at different parts of the songs BUT AS WELL PARALLEL? (f.e. 2-3 reverbs/delays at once in the same part of the song and blend those together?)

Tip #6 Use Vocal Thickening technique. (8:33 muted channel, below lead vocal sub) Warren, probably, tired to talk about it :)

The Dl button for the vocals cheat sheet doesn't seem to be working?

What software use Waren? please