If You're Not Using This Vocal Mixing Chain, You're MESSING UP

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I have a confession to make: my compressor, EQ, limiter, and de-essor settings hardly change from mix to mix regardless of the singer or band I'm mixing. It doesn't matter if I'm mixing rock or metal...female or male vocals...my settings are all pretty much plug n' play.
Now, the reason my vocal plugin chain has remained largely untouched for the last 13 years is simple:
Vocals are actually the easiest thing in the world to mix as long as you know what you're doing.
As a matter of fact, I show you how you can mix album-quality vocals in a matter of minutes simply by copying my exact plugin chain and settings that I share in this video and I do it all with STOCK PLUGINS.
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@FrightboxRecording 11 ай бұрын

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@MoonSkaEurope 11 ай бұрын

This is exactly what I needed coz I'm a musician more so than I am an engeneer. And absolutely agreed, most people probably dont need more gear, another cab or pickups whatever, people before us made masterpieces in very limited conditions. Like we say in russia in proper hands everything works so we just have to figure it out. Good luck everybody

@FrightboxRecording 11 ай бұрын

Well said!

@jamescendrowski4844 9 ай бұрын

Clear, concise and easy to follow, your knowledge always helps. Thank you.

@thomasdoud4700 11 ай бұрын

Awesome!!!! Unreal timing, my band is about to record vocals on our album and I was looking for some advice!! Thank you so much again, your videos have been huge in helping me and my band record and mix our album properly! You rule Bobby!!

@FrightboxRecording 11 ай бұрын

Keep me posted on how it goes!!

@terrywright6500 11 ай бұрын

Amazing as always. Plus great t-shirt!

@sabtekmusic8967 10 ай бұрын

Very cool video and a great vocal chain to boot. Thanks for making these great videos mate.😉

@leearmitage 11 ай бұрын

Totally agree I've been using the same plugin chain for vox over the last couple of years and im pretty happy with the results I get 🤘🧙‍♂️🤘

@heikohesse4666 4 ай бұрын

Hi - best mixing channel I've found so far on YT, very helpful videos - thanks man! 😎

@onoesmurlocs 11 ай бұрын

Perfect timing, I was just searching vocal mixing vids to fix my crappy vocals lol.

@slevengrungus 4 ай бұрын

I like this advice a lot, and I will remember it. Its all about cleaning up the low end before applying harder processing. Now I didn't really understand the purpose of the slight saturation at the beginning and why its so important, Is that to soften the peaks? Normally if I wanted to apply subtle saturation I would do it after compression so that it would be applied more evenly across all volumes

@xXValomatXx 9 ай бұрын

I always roll off low end with a 12dB highpass filter up to 200 Hz. I then have less to filter out with the parametric band @ 200 Hz - 250 Hz. It's practically the same but i catch frequencies with the highpass, that you are catching with the parametric EQ.

@BrianHullRI 11 ай бұрын

Thanks Bobby. Love your videos. Quick question. When you're "going for gain reduction" are you trying to get a specific amount of gain reduction for specific types of processing, or is that just where it ends up after you go through the process? You reference this a lot in your videos, and I'm super confused by what you mean. Do you have any tutorials specifically on this "gain reduction" issue?

@lurmirari 4 ай бұрын

would it be a good idea to use this chain on the way in? as in, recording with this chain already printed to the recorded audio

@teroft2553 11 ай бұрын

Would this chain work well on heavier vocals with growls etc as well? Or do you use a different chain for these kinds of vocals?

@stevenclyde5400 11 ай бұрын

Awesome stuff. Quick question: are these trick sheet EQ tips for drums for MIDI drums as well, or only live drums?

@FrightboxRecording 11 ай бұрын

Both! As long as you're mixing with raw samples.

@gslinger19 5 ай бұрын

My stock equalizers doesn't have that visual, neither do my plugins, I'm using Ableton lite. Any tips there. I did use your settings as a guide though.

@bryanbloodstorm6181 11 ай бұрын

Hey bro! Nice content and nice mix!! totally digging it! Just got a question taking back to the copy and paste thing when double tracking. Is it possible to record a track, lets say 8 bar- guitar track then shuffle the bars to make it sound like 2 different di for guitar? So the 1st track consists of 1-4 bars and 5-8 bars, then the 2nd track consist of 5-8 bars then 1-4 bars. Not sure if that makes sense, I know double tracking is the best. I'm just curious about this method I thought of.

@FrightboxRecording 11 ай бұрын

Yes, I do this all of the time. You just have to be careful to make sure you don't accidentally use the same exact part on both sides.

@bryanbloodstorm6181 11 ай бұрын

@@FrightboxRecording Awesome! Now I can rest my case knowing this works. I'll have this up in my sleeves, a tight double track still is the best. Thanks brother!

@fatal1n33 11 ай бұрын

Hey Bobby, I dare you to attempt to use FL studio to mix raw heavy guitars 😅 huge fan and your tuts have helped me more than any other sound engineering KZfaqr !

@FrightboxRecording 11 ай бұрын

As long as there's a basic digital EQ in FL studio, I'm 100% sure it'll get the job done.

@SinfulSoulBand 6 ай бұрын

I use FL and i still use eveey technique bobby shares on his page. Its not really the daw, its what you know about your stock plugins :)

@slevengrungus 4 ай бұрын

FL studio supports impulse responses through the convolver, so you could load up cab IR's to that. Though I rather recommend a vst cab loader for convenience sake. For an amp sim you might need to get an external plugin. Emissary should be good. Also with a TS999. FL studio Compressors and EQ's are good to work with so i don't see any reason why you wouldn't be able to get good results. The biggest reason people dislike FL studio is because its very unconventional as a DAW. If you're used to any other DAW and try to move over to FL you will find it to be very unintuitive and impractical

@SinfulSoulBand 6 ай бұрын

Hey bobby, which track is this ? If you get the chance, I have heard you work on it and found it stuck in my head but i never knew the name

@LoweCommotionStudio 9 ай бұрын

I usually use a de-esser early in the chain. Why use it at the end? Just curious.

@FrightboxRecording 9 ай бұрын

Heavy compression can sometimes exaggerate sibilance, so it makes sense to de-ess after to the compression.

@onoesmurlocs 11 ай бұрын

thanks! ,are you adding any reverb or delay to the vocals?

@FrightboxRecording 11 ай бұрын

Not in this case, the vocals are completely dry.

@onoesmurlocs 11 ай бұрын

@@FrightboxRecording interesting , I tried out the chain for sounds way better but I think I need get better at singing lol.

@FloodSociety265 9 ай бұрын

Great video, I love your content, your explanations are so clear even a thick musician like me can understand them :p; and thank you for slaying so many (expensive) myths... Would you apply this chain also when the vocals consist of several layered tracks (to make the vocals thicker, maybe adding unisons, or one track an octave lower, or with the vocals being whispered, etc...)?

@tomix1970pl1 11 ай бұрын

I use Shure 14A and I am not going to spend even a penny for a better one.

@tarasolegov356 10 ай бұрын

what`s the name of the band?)

@largeuselessness 11 ай бұрын

most of the time the real raw (which is not processed by those fancy pre-amp stuff)is so damn dynamic, have to use brutal force compress it. sometime i just brutally use a limiter instead and ~~crush them around -30db~~ that i could only see red in my meters........xd

@evenform 11 ай бұрын

I agree with this guy with stock plugs but this doesn’t sound that great… the backing track also sounds so bad… if time drums sampled so they sound like popcorn…