HOW TO MAKE A CLEAN POP VOCAL CHAIN

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3 жыл бұрын

Making your vocals sounds great is KEY to producing a successful song. A Vocal Chain is the key to making your vocals sound great. Can you see where I'm going with this?
Pop music requires great sounding vocals. This video is going to show you how to process vocals to get a loud, up front, clean sound. It's a lot less complicated than you might think.
If you aren't sure on the idea of compression, go and check out my "WTF IS: COMPRESSION" video, and you'll be up to speed in no time
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@ScottThePisces Жыл бұрын

Issue with stacking the 1176 an CL1B is the Tubetech in fixed mode is 1ms attack, 50ms release by default. You're using to compressors to attune the peaks.

@AdamRowleygrowley Жыл бұрын

I didn't know it was that quick! But still sounds great to my ear. Prefer the tone to the 2a!

@Dunmunll 8 ай бұрын

This is fantastic advice actually! Yeah, I love the Tube-Tech emulation by Softube, but I always go with the classic 1176 into the 2A!

@AdamRowleygrowley 3 жыл бұрын

Nice random album artwork at 0:33 . Interesting Edit Choices.

@zii_muzik_world8740 2 жыл бұрын

great content bro!

@AdamRowleygrowley 2 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it! Thanks Esiah!

@TheIconRecords 3 жыл бұрын

How about the noise gate being the first on your chain... gating out any noise pre processing..

@AdamRowleygrowley 3 жыл бұрын

Hey pal! This is definitely another way of doing it. I tend to this with RX-Denoise if it's a noisy source, but with the Noise Gate, it has a tendency to remove breaths and intonation if set wrong that I sometimes really like. Putting the noise gate at the end means the breaths are now loud enough to have them stick around after the gate!

@MixedByS 2 жыл бұрын

How did u record these vocals? Did you track with plugs in I see you got the dynamic controlled in the wave forms

@AdamRowleygrowley 2 жыл бұрын

I record thru an apollo twin and I believe I used a AKG 414 on this track. Back then I will have recorded with light compression on the way in unfortunately.

@thomasaudio8585 2 жыл бұрын

@@AdamRowleygrowley Do you record with UAD Rec on, or do you use UAD mon? I heard it's smart to use "UAD rec" for a home studio because real studio mic's are already being ran through actual analog hardware.

@AdamRowleygrowley 2 жыл бұрын

@@thomasaudio8585 Hey man. I track with UAD Rec on these days, but with no processing on the way in (Other than preamp). For a while I just used 'Mon' Monitor. This is because I'd sometimes set my compressor wrong and then the vocal is ruined in the DAW, when it's really easy to just add the compressor after the fact.

@areginalmedia6451 Жыл бұрын

@@AdamRowleygrowley If you apply the processing on the dedicated Preamp channel not the insert. You can track on MON. Either way its recording the effect on the unison preamp slot. MON recs that and bypasses the insert effects. REC does everything if I'm correct.

@antoniusmachtmusik Жыл бұрын

so you are using the uad recording function in console and record your vocals with those 2 compressors already on the vocals into the daw?

@AdamRowleygrowley 4 ай бұрын

I used to do it that way! Exactly!

@gnmorales1 2 жыл бұрын

okay, so your basically saying eq'ing and compressing multiple times on vocals wont hurt it... traditionally I eq/compress/de-esser/reverb/etc once per vocal, I was always afraid of doing too much and destroying the track... (* oh and im looking for the video you mentioned at the end on vocal bussing, can I get the link for that please mate)

@AdamRowleygrowley 2 жыл бұрын

I actually never made the bussing video!!! I Really should. I'm much better now-a-days! The EQ/Compression/Deess practice isnt a problem, but make sure you're not doing much each time. Each one is doing a little bit, rather than one compressor doing all the heavy lifting.

@lozicrazy Жыл бұрын

should I be doing eq and compression stuff as I record? I have neve 8801

@AdamRowleygrowley Жыл бұрын

If you understand how to do it, yes. But it will mean you can't undo the processing so make sure you don't over do it!

@TheSpeedyr6 3 жыл бұрын

Did you make that video with the saux sends ,fx yet

@AdamRowleygrowley 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Ran! I didn't but I definitely should!!!

@TheSpeedyr6 3 жыл бұрын

@@AdamRowleygrowley ok then who’s stopping u

@AdamRowleygrowley 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheSpeedyr6 Hahaha nobody! Just my overwhelmingly busy diary! I really should get back into youtube.

@dontheprod5841 2 жыл бұрын

Good video man 👏🏽

@AdamRowleygrowley 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Don!! I should probably do an updated video on this!!

@dontheprod5841 2 жыл бұрын

@@AdamRowleygrowley for real mannn I’m sure people would love that 🚀

@youngwhitefresh9220 Жыл бұрын

I like to recording thru these Comps, but I also like to have Auto-Tune on while Im performing. Now when I set "UAD rechnen" it will record the Auto-Tune with, what I absolutely don't want to. Ay chance to handle this a different way?

@xdiorswrld-4464 Жыл бұрын

Put autotune directly in protools not on the uad pre vocal chain

@youngwhitefresh9220 Жыл бұрын

If I do, I need to monitoring on Pro Tools also. This end up badly on my headphones

@AdamRowleygrowley Жыл бұрын

You'd have to use a bus I think. Send the vocal to a bus with autotune on it, monitor the bus and mute the input channel. Haven't tried this in Console but sure it can be done without too much fuss.

@youngwhitefresh9220 Жыл бұрын

@@AdamRowleygrowley Sounds like a solution! I'll try it!

@filipjonathan 3 жыл бұрын

Uhm..you know that with 1176, the higher the attack/release the faster it is, right? So 7/6 is actually the fastest.

@AdamRowleygrowley 3 жыл бұрын

I did know this Filip!! Did I misspeak in this video??? Really sorry if I did. I did LOADS of research into compressors for my video on the topic, but still get this wrong every time I explain it. I've used the 1176 for so long now I just use it habitually without thinking about the physical association of the knobs. Sorry if I made a mistake here though!

@billesposito2112 2 жыл бұрын

If it sounds good in context who cares how you got there. If people didn't know what u used they would say it sounds good . Sounds okay to me brother.

@AdamRowleygrowley 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bill! A lot's changes now but this is all still relevant

@aaronacosta783 Жыл бұрын

this chain but put r vox at the end >

@AdamRowleygrowley Жыл бұрын

Can't argue with RVox, no idea how it works but it just does.

@kennymorris6459 Жыл бұрын

maybe find a good singer if so much plugins are required on one chain

@AdamRowleygrowley Жыл бұрын

Share your mixes Kenny! Would love to hear a perfect singer with natural multistage compression!

@titledworld8393 Жыл бұрын

@@AdamRowleygrowleysome people didn’t get the message this was a “pop” vocal chain hahahah. Good video dude.

@AdamRowleygrowley Жыл бұрын

@@titledworld8393 Just hilarious. Appreciate it!

@Mynelka 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds unnatural

@AdamRowleygrowley 3 жыл бұрын

Ah sorry to hear you didn't like this one Mynelka! I tend to work in the Pop music world, and my tracks have been used by indie artists and signed artists alike. Vocals I've produced have garnered millions of plays and I'm pretty proud of where I've got my sound to now. That said, obviously it's not for everyone. If you let me know what kind of style you'd be looking to replicate, I'll try and make a video showing you how to get that style of vocal. If not a video, I'll write in a comment for you how I'd go about it!