HOW and WHY To Layer Pop Vocals! (Remote Vocal Production Tips)

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In this video, Austin will show you how, when, and why you should be layering vocals in a pop song. Vocal arrangement can make or break a record, and it's important to know when to utilize certain tools and elements, what you're trying to achieve with these methods, and how to execute them in a session. Austin also goes over some of his favorite tips and methods for producing vocals for artists remotely.
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Timestamps:
Intro 0:00
Video Overview 0:17
Starting with a Vocal Demo 1:25
Fleshing Out The Arrangement to A Lyric Sheet 2:50
Starting With a Solid Lead Vocal 3:32
Double Tracked For Effect 3:58
Creating Width and Body With Unison Vocals And Panning 5:27
Introducing Harmonic Variation To Build Interest 8:15
Adding Multiple Harmony Layers 10:10
Workflow of Producing Vocals Remotely 13:25
Vocal Production Beyond The Tracked Vocals 14:45
Artificial Harmonies For Flavor and Texture 15:35
Ad Libs to Add Interest And Urgency 16:50
Fun Delay Throws and Production Flares To Finish It Off 17:59
Before Layering & Production Vs. Final 19:00
Recapping Everything 20:12
Outro 21:03

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@nickvivar9437 2 жыл бұрын

Tracked from an SM7B in my apartment :) SICK video I am so honored!

@MattiasEliasson74 2 жыл бұрын

Sick vocals man. and a good song!

@MakePopMusic 2 жыл бұрын

A mf icon in the building

@moyrmixhub54 2 жыл бұрын

The vocals were excellent. Extremely well tracked. The kind of vocals I'd hope to receive, but rarely do if the artist has done the tracking. Top job all round, from both you and Austin.

@GotBettaBeats 2 жыл бұрын

Great Song

@IamJet 2 жыл бұрын

Hey I have a question did you processed your vocals before sending it to Austin? If yes what did you do in the vocal processing of your vocals and what did you do on the vocal processing of each of vocal layers that you've created

@hailemoses8586 2 жыл бұрын

12:00 WHEEEEEWWWWWW Love hearing layers without the music so you can really get the FEEL of they compliment each other

@pbjellibean 2 жыл бұрын

This is officially one of my favorite videos now. Thanks so much for sharing your workflow and how and WHY you make production decisions with vocal arrangement. This was all super duper helpful, thanks so much Austin for constantly giving aspiring music-makers quality content! 💯

@GabeWilliams 2 жыл бұрын

These tutorials are so good. I love how they also provide insight into the norms of the recording process in a professional setting.

@skymajr6377 2 жыл бұрын

Bro you’re literally GOATED. I am so grateful for this channel

@minstinct280 2 жыл бұрын

Austin, your channel is SO kick ass, dude! Possibly the #1 channel on producing. You'd have no prob getting some major sponsors if you don't already!

@ChocolateCookieMusic 4 ай бұрын

So helpful for any genre, not just pop. Thanks for the tutorial!

@moyrmixhub54 2 жыл бұрын

A very useful video. Thanks for sharing Austin. You both did a great job.

@kikon88 2 жыл бұрын

Without doubt the best production channel ever

@DeanFromPF 2 жыл бұрын

Best production channel on KZfaq 🖤

@KordTaylor 6 ай бұрын

Such good advice as always. Austin rules! 👏🏻🚀💥 Nice that I can go find all these past gems on KZfaq when I need them. Gonna send to my son who does a lot of remote production. ❤

@sepulchralcloud3906 2 жыл бұрын

Helpful as always, thank you, Austin

@JamesStMichael 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video bro! Sounds great my friend! Really appreciate you dropping this knowledge!!!

@syedsafisalam6799 2 жыл бұрын

Austin Hull! My most favourite producer and teacher! Please make a tutorial on song sections and transition to make the sections more connected 🙏. That's where i get stuck alot. Thank you so much for creating such amazing videos. Just bought MPM Music production course and it's the best thing ever! Can't thank you enough for your help to all of us(all the music producers and lovers). Love from India❤️🇮🇳

@kantulaev 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah!

@clear_gray_sky539 2 жыл бұрын

Very professional voice and production . Great job you guys

@ThomasPenninger 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Austin! First of all thank you so much for your videos, this one was another gem! I come from an acoustic Singer/Songwriter Background so mainly Guitar+Vocal Arrangements and I'm trying to get more into Pop music, since it really starts to resonate with me more. The thing is, these huge and dense arrangements are a bit overwhelming. I know, practice is king, but would it be possible to make a video with tips for people like me, coming from this acoustic background on how to flesh out our songs more and how to not get overwhelmed by the plethora of instruments/layers used in Pop songs? Thank you so much for all your efforts! :)

@47Libra 7 ай бұрын

This vid is straight gold. Thank you brotha.

@TheRealSandman 5 ай бұрын

Going back to these videos to keep myself in check & make sure I'm using all this information!

@addisontrashed Жыл бұрын

SOOOO so helpful 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Sounds incredible ❤

@ciscofuentes1428 2 жыл бұрын

Another amazing informative video!✊🏽💯👍🏽🤙🏽

@andrewcurriermusic 2 жыл бұрын

Great track and vocal arrangement! Thanks so much!

@jentaro 2 жыл бұрын

The man with the proper work etiquette!

@nunu9849 Жыл бұрын

*your beats and mixing are on next level* ♥

@JuanManuelAlcantara 2 жыл бұрын

You are the best, Austin!

@ithadimarco Жыл бұрын

This is gold! Thanks!

@stefverheyen8547 2 жыл бұрын

austin great arrangement i adore your track i really love you way you work on arrangement

@besaliju 2 жыл бұрын

Halfway thru this already so informative

@d.m.ebeats9013 Жыл бұрын

The best channel I have just discovered wow wow 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥♥️♥️

@BradleyProulx Жыл бұрын

Amazing video Austin. Just wondering if you have a tutorial explaining the processing and eq of each double and harmony etc? This video is top quality. Thankyou!

@Flaexmusic 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing tutorials keep up the good work! 🖤

@TheBawss90 2 жыл бұрын

Super cool video, great insight on arrangement!

@brettlionheart 10 ай бұрын

Thanks homie! Helpful

@ghdrum 2 жыл бұрын

Really useful tips in here. Glad I watched.

@niamousai 2 жыл бұрын

Vocals amazing …producing amazing 👏🏼🙌🏼🔥

@oursongvideos 2 жыл бұрын

Love your videos, sooo helpful.👍

@MitchellTeeRapz 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds great!!!! Good tips!!!

@lens8933 Жыл бұрын

thanks always !

@Adrimartja 2 жыл бұрын

very informative and high quality video, thank you Austin for sharing! could you please give some tips on how to mix the vocal layers? Is the effects chain the same as the lead vocal?

@MM-pv6ml 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing. Thank you so much.

@dennis5571 2 жыл бұрын

Great tips! Thanks for a great video. For my own taste I would use the harms and doubles a little more sparesome to get more dynamics and let the voice come through some more

@SuperICEMIKE 2 жыл бұрын

always really awesome!

@juanx4986 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video!

@hofmdnt 2 жыл бұрын

insanely helpful!

@akshaypadmashali8686 2 жыл бұрын

Man ... Could you do a video on drum, vocal and melody bus processing and mixbus processing... That would be awesome

@mehrdadchannel2974 2 жыл бұрын

i am still learning here .tnq austin

@jkraus243 2 жыл бұрын

Hugely helpful video! Been taking notes! Do you cover how loud you mix the hard panned triple lead tracks in relation to the center lead track in any of your videos?

@ElliotAwsome 2 жыл бұрын

Your content is awesome!

@MakePopMusic 2 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU!

@quintonudink3538 2 жыл бұрын

I dig this channel

@DanielWithTheBalance 7 ай бұрын

Dope!

@123GEZZY 4 ай бұрын

good vid....can you do a tutorial on a song with just one vocal, and then how you copy it and the process in getting a big harmony sound like this using vsts and melodyne ...im sure theres loads that will find this great

@TheAdamSmasherMultiverse 2 жыл бұрын

So clutch dawg

@Xindicate 2 жыл бұрын

hello austin, love your videos, this is real pro sound quality. id like you to make a vocal prod tutorial of latin artist rauw alejandro, if you listen to him youll see his vocal prod is at least so particular, love your content, thanks for showing your knowledge to us 🔥🔥🔥

@Daxhenri 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Austin, big fan, thanks for all the great tips and tricks. Question for you. The Lany vocal track in this session. Is it a bounce of 2 unison L and R takes?

@MakePopMusic 2 жыл бұрын

Nope. Mono vocal being sent through a doubler!

@johnnytequila5646 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant

@orphicstudiotraphiphopbeat9711 2 жыл бұрын

On Point 👌👌👌

@AndrewFoxOfficial 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! What part of Florida you in? I’m near Gainesville

@fusionistaaaa Жыл бұрын

Very good. If i am not mistaken you didn't talk about the panning of the artificial low take and of the ad libs / delay throws. How would you pan those?

@720henrique 2 жыл бұрын

Austin I have a video suggestion about how max martin and other top producers produce, like how is it possible that they "create" all those hooks. I heard that some of them listen to old music and sample a lot from them.

@flash2k 3 ай бұрын

have you a video of how you do the vocals with the delays reverbs etcetera, that you can hear immediately in the verse/choruses?

@OSdahl Жыл бұрын

Austin make more layering vocal video. I suck in this area need help. Different examples.

@jujusmusic 2 жыл бұрын

U are really a great hope for me 😘

@chestercastillo9612 2 жыл бұрын

To be honest. I am still tripping on the delay+verb effect on vocals especially during recording. Great tutorial.

@GuyXVIII 2 ай бұрын

This sounds killer! (as always) but I have to know - what is this Lany Double, why is it stereo, and what's the difference between that and the hard L-R doubles in verse1B?

@surajsaud8035 2 жыл бұрын

Can you please make tutorial of this song where instrument and synth should be in the mix. And how to set piano and pad in the mix? Mixing

@ElectromagneDikk Жыл бұрын

first video of yours I've ever seen, going to track the first pop vocalist I've ever tracked in a couple of months, this was full of useful information thank you. subscribed edit: I forgot to add in with that, you're right that vocalist absolutely fucking crushed it. super talented kid

@aprilrosehart1867 2 жыл бұрын

I love your vids! Would you ever do an how to make an Marina or Melanie Martinez type of music? 💜

@MakePopMusic 2 жыл бұрын

Did the Melanie Martinez style! Check out the dark alt pop video!

@aprilrosehart1867 2 жыл бұрын

Oh! Thank you ♡

@spiritunbound 2 жыл бұрын

Could you do a production video on Dawn Golden. Thanks for the consideration.

@davidhellegouarch1622 Жыл бұрын

Thank a lot for showing this ! When I triple track I have a lot of issue with the panned double even with editing, how do you get this tight sounding vocal in every layer ?

@MakePopMusic Жыл бұрын

Just tracking it really tight. if it's messy you can always use Auto Align in Cubase or Vocalign!

@hugo7503 2 жыл бұрын

How did you make that LANY double Austin? Would love to know that :)

@user-hy1zd8tm6o 2 жыл бұрын

Please add Korean subtitles.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@mikkydrumz 2 жыл бұрын

hey, to create the LANY DOUBLE track, what u hace use? waves doubler, recording L AND R or what? only for the LANY DOUBLE track!

@edwardmcmann5136 8 ай бұрын

how much do you change the mix from the lead to unison layers mate? Do you mess with the EQ? Maintain Delay and Reverb settings? Or does that clog up the stereo field too much?

@livingdeaddoll43 2 жыл бұрын

Can you make a video on how to properly mix instruments in an instrumental before adding the vocals? (Like where the drums, bass, synths, etc should sit) Everything just gets buried and hidden in the mix , and theres not really any videos on it

@surajsaud8035 2 жыл бұрын

Yes true can you please make tutorial of this song from starting where the instrument and synth should be in the mix

@danielfranks2104 Жыл бұрын

Great vid. Maybe I missed it, but when you do doubles, do you do 1 double and duplicate it for left and right? Or do one for left, and another one for right?

@MakePopMusic Жыл бұрын

No. Track 3 separate times. 1 for center, 1 for left, and 1 for right!

@orlyohana1990 2 жыл бұрын

Top👏

@nimagholamimusic 2 жыл бұрын

💥💥👍🏽

@JeffEmbracedDC 2 жыл бұрын

Are the vocals re-timed / quantized to sync perfectly? Or is it purely an amazing natural vocal performance?

@MakePopMusic 2 жыл бұрын

He just crushed it! But if I was gonna sync them, it’s 3 clicks in Cubase and it’s done.

@Hive5ive 2 жыл бұрын

Austin, quick question... Firstly, thanks for putting this up, I do this type of work all the time, but the writing and color formatting you use is really helpful to speed up workflow. My question is, is the color coded key the same for each production? Or do you apply a unique one each time? Or maybe you have a template color key that's got more possibilities? I just ask, cause that question kept popping up in the back of my head while watching you explain things. I copied your color key to a google docs template, but kept asking myself what color to use for strict doubles? (i.e. lead vox and 1 dub) I kept looking at the blue and purple layers and wondering if those would apply in that case, or if you had another color designation in that scenario. Anyhow, Thanks again, sorry for the long winded question.

@MakePopMusic 2 жыл бұрын

Feel free to use whatever color key works for your song! I will change mine if I have vocal parts that aren't in a typical vocal production. Maybe if I need oohs and ahhs over a phrase I'll use a bright green highlight, or if I want gang vocals on a word I'll highlight it orange, etc. Feel free to lay out your vocal guide however you and the artist see fit!

@Hive5ive 2 жыл бұрын

@@MakePopMusic Thanks Austin, you're the best!

@shakibavideos 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video! What microphone was the singer using?

@MakePopMusic 2 жыл бұрын

Good ole Sm7b

@shakibavideos 2 жыл бұрын

@@MakePopMusic thank you!

@davewhite5130 Жыл бұрын

Were do I find people like you for my productions? I have tried online mix and master sites and really i need pros to get my work to a pro level. I have the money, just not the right contacts and industry pro to help and guide. Any help is appreciated..thx

@thorstenkellner 2 жыл бұрын

What exactly is this "lany-style"-dubble of the main Vocal? Is this just an alternative Layer with an Stereoeffect on it??

@MakePopMusic 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty much!

@thorstenkellner 2 жыл бұрын

@@MakePopMusic thanks so much! Great work!

@BaraNadaMusic 2 жыл бұрын

why you make vocal track as stereo?

@countjackula1149 2 жыл бұрын

Was hoping we’d be getting a new template tutorial last month but hopefully soon 😊

@PaulBillJr Жыл бұрын

How many choruses are these songs using?

@OSdahl 2 жыл бұрын

Why i some of the audio clips white? I use studio one

@wayoutwestcreatives9769 2 жыл бұрын

algorithm, look! I am engaging.

@MakePopMusic 2 жыл бұрын

AYO LOOK OVER HERE ALGORITHM

@samimohamadi2015 2 жыл бұрын

👌🌺

@harshitarya581 Жыл бұрын

💅💅💅💅💅

@ihasmyreasons8085 Жыл бұрын

HOW SWAY?

@OSdahl Жыл бұрын

Why is some of em Stereo takes and some Mono?

@MakePopMusic Жыл бұрын

I keep some vocals on stereo channels in case I want to use stereo fx such as reverb, delay, or modulation as an insert in the mixing process.

@OSdahl Жыл бұрын

@@MakePopMusic There is definitely much i dont know. So i cannot use reverb delay, as insert in mono track? Thats why sends are used?

@heartshinemusic 2 жыл бұрын

You said Nick wanted to do a "LANY style double" (in the "Double tracked for effect" part.) It's unclear what this is a reference to... (is LANY a pop artist?) or what processing you used for this double.

@MakePopMusic 2 жыл бұрын

LANY is a pop artist that commonly does these “wide apparent doubles” in their music 😁

@mindus5760 2 жыл бұрын

thx was wondering the same

@heartshinemusic 2 жыл бұрын

@@MakePopMusic Thanks Austin!

@merakerli Жыл бұрын

this spotify-style of industry POP, is really awful. Sonn this camming criminal network Spotify will be dead ! adn we can start hear real music again .