This is what you call sharing free game brotha.. ty for taking the time to share this with us!

It's wild how I actually hear the instrumental better when the EQ is actively cutting those frequencies. Even on my laptop speakers. It's a massive difference.

Huge thank you! you have no idea how long I've been struggling to get the vocals to pop in just the right way and this made a big difference

This has just transformed my mix. Unbelievable.

I’ve been mixing a track from a live band recording from a gig, and although I have really clean stems with minimal bleed, I was losing something of the ‘live’ feel with the vocal not sitting right. I was making some headway with ducking some of the melodic instruments, but doing this with FF fixed it straight away, and I mean instantly. Very grateful mate, too TOP tip

yo, the way the vocal was mixed is insane, glad I could learn a thing or two, thank you.

This is otherworldly genius-like knowledge that has just been a total revelation to me! Thanks Fella 👍🏻

i was doing something similar manually by using broader qs where colliding frequencies exist but this effect is so much cleaner. great tutorial

Great video! I am really grateful for the info shared here. I have always had trouble getting my vocal to sit correctly. Combined with the sidechain compression of reverb/delay on your newest video it really is a massive upgrade with few tweaks. That's the power of a "secret". It's not difficult, It's not overly time consuming. It works! Thanks a lot, Streaky!

Thank you! This will make a difference in my work life. I've had Fabfilter 3 for a long time, and had no idea it was this powerful!

Thanks for sharing Streaky! Much appreciated. ❤

This is pretty good! Hope to see more videos like this on your channel!

Streaky thanks for this as im about to lay down my vocals on some projects soon so this will be very helpful mate !

Thanks for everything Streaky!

Brooo this is amazing. You dont know how much it helps. Amazing technique. Bravo 👏

This is an ELITE mixing tip. So glad I found this. Thank you for sharing this.

Streaky, this whole video is what we need, on point, love your dial in! ❤️

Bought your mixing course, its very concise and easy to follow, kudos!

Streaky, спасибо большое за это обучение. Это то что я долго искал и наконец нашел! Благодарю тебя!

I love when you do these tutorial, so much knowledge in there. Thank you so much for sharing you skill and experience. This is worth so much to me.

It’s was about bloody time for me to decipher those advanced options in Q3. Thank you

This is powerful, I just tried it out it brings some unity to the track

Legend! Can't thank you enough for this one, Priceless

Just wanted to thank you and shout you out for this video. I took what you did, made a submix channel (instead of bouncing the instrumental) and this process worked like a dream. Thanks again!

Massive difference, Thank you Streaky another hidden gem in Pro Q3, 👌👌

This guy is the real deal 💯 Just bookmarked and created an account on his website. Gonna be my one-stop shop for learning mixing and mastering for the next few months

Man, i just want to thank you very much to share this!!

Amazing, thank you! Loving your mixing your course!

I've been mixing over 3 years now and never seen anyone do this before! This is very advanced and I'm so thankful I've come across this video because I love learning new things about mixing everyday! I'll go to sleep tn fulfilled because of this video. THANK YOU

Great video! Thanks for that. I didn’t know proQ had a match EQ function and I use it everyday …gonna try this out now :)

Amazing skill, amazing result! Thanks Streaky for sharing.

Haven't watched your channel for a while Streaky, but so glad I tuned in again!! Great tip on Pro Q. I have a lot of videos to catch up on.

This is fantastic. Was having exactly this issue and following your instruction, I've now got vocals that sit really well within the mix. I was also able to reduce the vocal stem by 3dB which is quite extreme. Great advice as always. Thank you, Streaky

Great technique, thanks. On that particular track you could also try sidechaining the vocal to a ducker on the actual vocal track, set at 100%

This is incredibly clever. And I just got the FabF Pro-Q 3 last week. I knew that it is a great EQ plug-in, and with the features of the ProQ, this is what i wanted to do. Thank you for the roadmap! Kudos.

I've been using FF to sidechain vocals on the inst track but this is Sidechain 2.0. Such valuable knowledge. Thank you for the gems!

Awesome technique! 👍

It also works with soothe2... and better. You just put it at the end of the instrumental track, and send a vocal sidechain into the plugin. Then adjust reduction intensity and overall q. It is way more precise cause it follows the vocal frequencies on real time and compress those areas.

You are so helpful! Thank you!

This is so cool. You are the man! Thank you!

Good idea for a vocal chained to an individual instrument. Pros will mostly mix from stems though, so most of that frequency adjusting is done thru the instruments/effects directly. A multi band would be better if applied to a full beat like this, so you can dial in exactly how and when each freq. band is pushed and pulled. ProMB is great for that!

Damn Streaky, you have swept all my mixing heroes away, “the crown is yours Lord Streaky”.

Superb technique @Streaky. Thanks for sharing mate.

I have been fighting with this type of thing forever. Trying that on some mixes this weekend. Thanks Streaky.

OMG. I did NOT know Fab can do that. Always was relying on different methods of demasking... Thank you so much, an eye opener indeed!

I've been using trackspacer to do this for the last year or so, but this seems like a much more detailed, accurate way of doing it. Great video, thanks.

You read my mind. Thank you for your divine timing and sharing this insight! Haven’t seen a video of yours in months, and when I had a specific question I wanted to research, you “randomly “ appeared on my YT feed with the answer. Thank you! Looking forward to trying this out. ❤🎉

Great stuff as always!

In my Matrix Reloaded Merovingian voice - Well, well, well... it appears you do in fact have some skill. 🤗 I think you may have finally won me over and I'm going to look into your mixing academy after this video.

TrackSpacer is what did it for me. I wanted to have something like it for a decade but it’s useful to notice what needs to be cut when making room manually on tracks separately (usually it’s the pads and lead synths that need room on vocal range 250hz, 500hz, 1khz, 2k roughly). Just a bit of TrackSpacer on those tracks usually is the answer and a short cut to make the mix sit better.

I mostly just do vocals so this was a huge help wow thanks so much for the post 🙏

Great as always streaky🤘

Im using Pro-Q3 since like 3 years now and I dind't know, that this plugin can do that... Very great video!

The autopilot to find the frequencies is a very nice trick! But you can do it also with TDR Nova GE for 6 bands, though it is not linear phase, but under 1-2 dB this should not matter too much. With the free Nova you can manually adjust 4 frequencies, that you find in the spectral display, and better than nothing, depends on the vocal, how it may vary.

Amazing!! Love this!!

Mate- this is such a brilliant technique. So many thanks for this Streaky- appreciate you mate.

This video is extremely useful... Especially for us artists who are trying to mix all by ourselves. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

A more custom trackspacer. Dope! Thanks Streaky! Want next level? Try the same thing with a mid-side play. Instrumental “sides” will bloom and sound wider.

Brilliant video! Thanks for the amazing knowledge!

Short and sweet video, keep it up!

I produce hip hop sampled from records and this is also a great way to layer samples and get it all sounding clean. Great video mate, plus one sub!

You can do it with soothe 2 and it's more accurat i think, and exactly moving with the vocal !

Just wanted to say this is a game changer.🔥🔥 Thank you!!!

Really great technique, thanks!

Alternatively, just use Trackspacer set between 5 and 10%. Also amazing for film/TV music so the dialogue and sound FX duck the music out the way. It’ll stop whoever is mixing the final audio from constantly turning down your music

Interesting! I tried it on something I had recently recorded and there's definitely an audible difference in the way the vocal track sits in the mix. I used to do this with waves' linear phase multi band compressor, but this approach [with the proq3] is much more surgical. Question: would you route your entire vocal buss (including harmonies, etc), or just the lead vocals? Also, the FX busses should remain directed to the stereo buss and should NOT be sidechained into the proq3 correct?

Wowww!! Big difference!! Thanks so much Streaky!!!

Thank u, Can really hear the voice much better with this. Your a great man 🙂

hi Streaky, in the case of RAP music, wich sidechain method do you recomend for us to record our Vocals?

Great trick, but very similar to something like Trackspacer, yes? I love putting it on my instrumental bus and have it triggered just slightly by the dry vocal.

fantastic streakster!!!

This is an interesting concept. I m looking forward to trying this not only as shown but with other instruments and ducking background vocals with the lead vocal. I like this idea.

Great techniques, thanks. Any recommendations for achieving this with logic stock, or free plugins?

That was probably one of the best before-and-after A/Bs I've ever heard on a youtube tutorial. Can you explain why it's important to use a linear-phase EQ for this? My understanding was that linear-phase EQ is best used for parallel processing. Aren't you necessarily introducing the possibility for pre-ringing into the instrumental track?

This is a great tip, looking forward to trying it with other things.

jaw dropped at the end. Thank you im buying that EQ

I do this with Soothe 2. Also a tip: set it to mid/side mode. That way you select how much it eats from the "sides".

Thank you for this. I would make a gentle suggestion that if you say "bus the vocal out" that it would be helpful to explain how to do that so we can continue to follow the help you're providing with this. Thanks.

Pretty brilliant technique! Thank you!

Next level stuff, great video Streaky

Vocals are harder than people think to mix sometimes. Nice one!! 👍

Q: How do professional mixing engineers make the vocals sit so perfectly with the backing track. A: They don't! For decades, there has been been a tendency to mix the vocals louder and louder (driven by unmusical excecutives). This has made the vocals become disconnected with the instruments. Just compare mixes from the 50's, 60's 70's and 80's, with "modern" mixes. The vocals were part of the track. Today, they are a separate entity from the instruments. Yes, it's correct to use EQ to make room for the vocal. But before you do anything, lower the vocal a with bout 3dB and you will find that the vocal "gels" much better with the instruments. (I have done tests with separating vocals, for several tracks, and lowering the vocals by aproximately 3dB "improves" the track a lot by making the vocal connect with the instruments.). This has been driven by corporate excecutives, that has no knowlege about music. There are lots of mixing engineers that intentionally misslabel the "normal" level mix as "vocal up", in order to trick the excecutives. I saw an interview with a mixing engineer (I don't recall the name), who said that he always sent three mixes to the labels named; vocal down, normal, vocal up. Nobody used the "vocal down" mix. A few used the "normal" mix. But the majority used the "vocal up" mix. The thing is that the "normal" and the "vocal up" mixes were identical! Just the fact that the mix was labeled "vocal up" convinced the executives that it was "better"! What can we learn about this? Before you do anything, make sure that the vocal sits at a LEVEL that makes it feel like part of the mix. Not something that is disconnected and soars far above the music. THEN you can use EQ (and compression) to improve the legibility of the vocal. That's the differece between songs and musically backed poetry recitals.

WOW. This method works Fantastic. Thank you so much.

Love your videos so helpful

There's also Wavesfactory Trackspacer, but using Pro-Q3 would certainly give you a lot more control over each band.

Isn’t this attenuating each band according to amplitude instead of frequency? Would there be a way for it to act more like a side-chained Soothe, or IZ Unmask / Trackspacer, where it ducks the track only at the fundamentals that peak out instead of flatly ducking all the masking frequencies by the same amount? Asking for a friend

Mate; this is soo good & well explained & swiftly

Love the videos Streaky! I’m 16 and just taking in your videos to up my music quality.

Streaky I know your a good teacher - But i've never heard your mixes or productions. Time to show us, so I can actually trust your guidance based off proof.

Visual placebo is amazing I love it. The difference to me is unnoticeable if I'm not looking, I don't know when it's bypassed. Also willing to bet everything that literally nobody is doing this :)))) But hey it might actually be useful at some point, as with all your tips n tricks. :)

Sooo good! Thank you!

dope stuff, keep them coming

It’s not bad without. And it’s debatable that it’s “better” with it. I for one don’t want strangely dynamically ducked pop song. The beat is critically important. I want the full range power of the instrumental-unmolested. If the vocals are static on top, fader automation/surgical cuts on the instrumental and or parallel processing is the better route. Lastly, in a hybrid pitch-catch setup this technique becomes wildly complex and not worth the trouble.

Why bother with all this if the music we have today are dynamically compressed? When you compress the final result, it doesn't matter. Today audio engineers need to learn a lot from the old ones.

I needed this man! Thanks! 🤘🏾🙏🏾

THIS IS INSANELY USEFUL

Are you god ?

Amazing technique THANKS !!!!

Very Impressive Work! Thank you for this gem!

So smart!!! Thanks for the tip!!!