The 3 Types of Indie Vocals (Vocal Mixing & Layering Tutorial)

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On my recreation videos I've gotten a TON of requests to dive into my mixing process in more depth, so I decided to make a video devoted to it! These are the 3 vocal layering & mixing techniques that I use most often in indie songs, loosely based on the production styles of Bon Iver, Novo Amor, S. Carey, Phoebe Bridgers, and other similar artists.
I'd like to emphasize again that I'm a producer, not a mixing engineer, so please take everything with a grain of salt.
Also, I get a fair few requests from you guys to mix your projects. I promise there are SO many people who will do it better than me. Here are a few mixing engineers that I work with all the time on my own & client projects who I would trust with my life. If you have a song that you need mixed, hit one of them up!
Charles-Henry Volk (mixed the second song in this video): / charleshenryvolk
Eliott Glinn: / eliottglinnaudio
Ian Bennett: / ian.makes.music
If you're an artist or producer and you want to work together on a project, get started here: lucasfourniermusic.com/
My sample packs: lucasfourniermusic.gumroad.com/
My social media and personal music:
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The plugins I used over and over again in this video:
UA Sphere (mic & emulation plugin): www.uaudio.com/microphones/ua...
Pitcher (FL Studio autotune): www.image-line.com/fl-studio/...
Waves CLA-2A compressor: www.waves.com/plugins/cla-2a-...
Warmy EP1A (FREE Tube EQ): www.pluginboutique.com/produc...
Waves De-Esser: www.waves.com/plugins/deesser
Fresh Air by Slate Digital: slatedigital.com/fresh-air/
RAUM Reverb: www.native-instruments.com/en...
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:20 The Bon Iver
7:40 The Hybrid/S. Carey
14:48 The Phoebe
20:47 Outro

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@aravindvinayakan 2 ай бұрын

I literally just finished your Phoebe video and was totally blown away! Killer work, pumped to work my way through your videos and watch whatever you put out next :)

@lucasfourniermusic 2 ай бұрын

thanks so much!!

@unicorndolphin 2 ай бұрын

please do one on grimes. her vocals on Visions and Halfaxa are so otherwordly and I can't find much about how she does it

@lucasfourniermusic 2 ай бұрын

seems to be some super bright parallel comp and super heavy reverb, likely with a lot of automation to keep some clarity. I don't listen to Grimes at all so this is just on first listen. May include her in a future video though!

@alanalfonso6620 2 ай бұрын

man, your videos are amazing! if you had a mixing production course, i will defintely enroll! you are awesome!! please upload more about mixing!!:)

@lucasfourniermusic Ай бұрын

I appreciate this a ton! Will definitely be sure to include it more in my future videos

@CreativePhilosophy_ 2 ай бұрын

Damn dude so much value in this video thank you!

@lucasfourniermusic 2 ай бұрын

so glad to hear, thanks so much!

@antoinebreton7632 2 ай бұрын

Great vid man, always glad to see your process!

@lucasfourniermusic 2 ай бұрын

appreciate you man :)

@genieboots4269 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing man! I really appreciate your content.

@lucasfourniermusic 2 ай бұрын

super glad to hear :)

@davidwilson5748 2 ай бұрын

Killed it! Thanks for posting

@lucasfourniermusic 2 ай бұрын

thank you!!

@wietzejohanneskrikke1910 2 ай бұрын

I think it could be a mistake to process two tracks in a stereo group. Let's say you use one (stereo) compressor: it will react to the loudest parts of any of the tracks you combined. A loud part in one track might duck a softer part in the other track. It would be better to compress each separate track. If you're worried about cpu: bounce the processed audio down.

@DaveJLamar 2 ай бұрын

Not if you use a compressor where you can unlink the left and right channels and then the compression works independently of each other. 😊

@lucasfourniermusic 2 ай бұрын

True, but also for this type of application where you’re trying to make 2-3 vocals sound like one, that can actually work to your advantage. There’s some processing you have to do on individual channels though like autotune cause it’s monophonic, I should’ve clarified that. What I do now is individual processing for the lead vocal to have 100% control, then bus processing for all backing vocals. Seems to do the trick!

@hpnascimento95 2 ай бұрын

Dude, this is amazing! You're incredible I would love to hear you talk about how you approach creating harmonies. Do you do it by ear or do you follow any specific rules?

@lucasfourniermusic 2 ай бұрын

great question! although i do have a theory background, i like to create them by ear just by improvising and then reworking things until it sounds right