Hands down this is the best breakdown for a vocal signal chain in my opinion. It also is so much easier to absorb when you actually like the vocal style -- other videos from other creators have vocals that are a bit too poppy or whiny for my taste.

Shoutout to Jordan for being fully transparent about founding BSA 👍🏼👍🏼

Liked and subbed after watching 3 minutes of the video. I really like the way you give concise explanation of the reason for why you pick one mixing strategy or plugin instead of another one in the chain. Great work!

Thank you for the tips, man👌 The vocalist sounded like a monster, really nice😊🤘

Super awesome production! Amazing tutorial! Thank you so much Jordan!

That was really useful! Gonna try some of these plugins while tracking vocals to get a good idea of what it would sound like when it will be mixed.

Great tutorial I will definitely use it in my next music production. Thank you 🤘🤘🤘

dude thanks for keeping it so simple, im losing my mind trying to figure this out again.

watching this has given me enormous confidence see me and you use the exact same chain (expect all the saturation) even the ssl eq ranges are the same hmm. good to know Im on the right track.

your mixes are the best i have heard eveeeeer...bravo. thanks god for your info's. A nice video about layering voices from just one take would be super nice!!!

Good stuff! It's similar to what I'm doing! I do like the idea of saturation before and after compression tho. Sounds great!!

good to find more youtubers making good content like this. righteous \m/

the vocals are next level

Thanks for this. Easy to follow! I had no idea what I was doing when processing screams. Was winging it but that only took me so far. 😂

Awesome, Thank you for this!!!

Thanks Jordan 🤘

Another great video JV. If anyone watching is thinking about investing in JV's online training, I can't recommend it enough.

You could do a series of videos about all your plugin chains in every instrument. How you do it now using Black Salt Audio. Comparing your old and new (If you have one) with BSA plugins! It would be awesome! Cheers!

Would be nice to know the vocal chain going into the DAW. I’m sure it’s being compressed before hand too

Need to build this in Waves Creatives Studio Verse. Im definitely making a personal preset for this. 😮

Love hearing my boys Pale Hell randomly out here in a tutorial

Banging track! I wish you could show us what delays and verbs are being used. Thanks so much for sharing.

Nice video! Thanks. However I miss a few words about delay/reverb..

Great demonstration Jordan. Have you tried JST Gain Reduction or Howard Benson Vocals in your metal mixes? Do you use them sometimes or this is always your go to chain?

Question. And what about the Vocal Bus? Like, when there are doubles, the volume on the bus will be louder than other sections. Do you throw a limiter on the Vocal Bus or something like this?

does anyone know what the name of this song is or where i can listen to it. Super cool

is there another tapehead similar plugin for other DAWs, I found the headtape is only for Pro Tools

Somebody likes Slipknot.

I am assuming it would work for, Doom Death or Raw Black metal vocals

Whats the song name??? is it a released song? i love it lol

Killer! What's the track and artist?

So he added a lot of high mids and highs with the eq and I think that means you could also get the same results by taking away some of the low mids. Depends on how you look at it but its about achieving a certain balance of freqs in the end. Am I wrong?

Reminds me of Slip Knot

Question. How do you deal with masking issues in your mix?

the plugins are so simple for how fuckin hard it is

Hey guys, I'm not a pro, I just want to see if I can do metal vocals. Without a mic I'm pretty damn good, but when I try to record it sounds like crap. Is it the crappy 13 dollar mic, or that I'm using a free version of Wavepad sound editor? The program has effects AGC, dynamic range compression, high and low pass filter, EQ. But I have no idea of which ones to use, it just doesn't have that crisp quality. What are the primary effects to use to help the sou d quality for a newly like myself?

I don’t think I’m the only person who’s tired of these “I’m on my period vocals”.

Oh man.... I REALLY wanted to hit 'like' but it was on 666... And I just couldnt ruin that so I thought i'd make up for it with a comment! :D

It’s funny… The girls that do these vocals, they all wear izod shirts and can’t make a peanut butter jelly sandwich

Ultra edgy lyrics.

Horrible vocals but nice mix

Well, the banner across your thumbnail says "MIXING SCREAMS". I'm no Rob Halford, but . . . I'd akin what you're doing is mixing someone hacking up a hairball . . . while . . . kinda' saying . . . things. So . . . yea.

@palehell fux