Top 5 Rap Vocal Mixing Tips from Producer Willie Green
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:27 - Use compression to control dynamics and use automations to add emotion
03:49 - Make sure the vocals are clear, present, and up front in the mix.
06:04 - Less reverb on vocals/using delays
08:19 - Don't be afraid to EQ FX's
10:07 - Use Automation on your FX's
12:27 - Outro
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@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
What are your go to plugins for mixing vocals? Please share below!
@Pasta221 Жыл бұрын
I tend to throw on/sing through a channel-strip plugin like scheps omni channel or PSP Infinistrip and then bus some delay(stock DAW plugin), room reverb (usally Meldas free MReconvolution) and sometimes a plate or longer reverb ( Valhalla Supermassive or Dragonfly Plate, both are free btw!). But I still am in the "learn recording" phase and have not really gotten fully into the "mixing stage" yet! so its mostly just to hear myself sing and also give the vocals some space and mood to them to ease the recording, and usally tweak the effects later in the mixing stage and/or replace them fully!
@DazzleRebel Жыл бұрын
I usually start with either C6 multiband or saturation into EQ, normally Cubase's built in Frequency plug-in. Then either LA-76 into a LA-2A or RVox into LA-76 if it needs to be punchier. I might add a little more saturation (really enjoying Waves BB Tubes for this) here if needed or just go straight to a deesser before finishing off with a touch more EQ and a limiter if needed (though with editing the vocals before adding the vocal chain a limiter is rarely needed). I'll feed this off to one or more effects busses for delays, reverb, more saturation etc) before a Lead Vocal bus which will usually have light limiting, maybe some final eqing into Waves NLS on either Nevo or Mike setting depending on if I want it light and airy or warm and fuzzy, hardly any gain added, if any. Just for very subtle natural flavouring to make my vocal sound chain more like its going through a real console.
@andreirlmeier Жыл бұрын
For vocals recorded with dynamic microphone I prefer the joe meek eq …
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
@@andreirlmeier thanks ever so much for sharing!
@spitfiremusic3997 Жыл бұрын
Waves RVox of course!
@leefchapman Жыл бұрын
Love Willie Green as a teacher as well as producer. This will be great.
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
Thanks ever so much
@dietofwires Жыл бұрын
I rarely even mix rap vocals, but I’ll watch any Professor Green video because he describes such a clear framework of the purpose of mixing.
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
Yes, he’s awesome!
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
Thanks ever so much for sharing
@Joey-rp5vg Жыл бұрын
Thanks very much Willie, great tips. Big thanks to the PLAP team
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
Thanks ever so much Joey
@Alan.livingston Жыл бұрын
The greenhouse. God level pun right there.
@michaelalberson126 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely awesome information
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
Thanks ever so much Michael!
@crimson3510 Жыл бұрын
SUPER MASTER CLASS!!!
@stephenzeagman9985 Жыл бұрын
Thanks Willie, love the videos that have been put up
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
You Rock!
@laureano9622 8 ай бұрын
he's awesome!!! i love how this guy talks and teaches. i would love to see him again in this space
@HitTheRoadMusicStudio Жыл бұрын
Willie Green is such a good teacher, finished watching his Promix Academy tutorial(s) and the tips shared are gold!!!
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
Thanks ever so much! Yes, we love Willie! He’s an amazing talent
@davidallenhammond2777 Жыл бұрын
Excellent introduction to your work style. Thank you for sharing it. I loved your interview with Warren Huart the other day very useful info there and very timely for me.
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@sethmonroe9603 Жыл бұрын
Love willie, first discovered him on Adam audio channel, looking forward to hearing more from him on this one
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much. Willie is incredible.
@dimitardimitrov8692 Жыл бұрын
Listening to him feels almost like a bed time story, niiice and smoooth or as he would say - hustlin' forward 😁.
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
Willie is an amazing talent and a truly wonderful guy!
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
Also agreed, he is marvellous mentor
@dimitardimitrov8692 Жыл бұрын
@@Producelikeapro Yes, he is!
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
@@dimitardimitrov8692 thanks for saying that!
@ChiefMiddleFinger Жыл бұрын
This is not my preferred genre, but many production techniques seem to be universal.
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
Absolutely! Thanks so much for watching. For producer's it is vital to be open-minded.
@thaexception3406 Жыл бұрын
Y'all listen up!
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
Absolutely!
@DooYaaVibe Жыл бұрын
I wonder how its done live concerning latency. I am new to music engineering. So is it special Hardware used for live performances?
@splashesin8 Жыл бұрын
😊
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
Thanks Audrey!
@johanjof5613 Жыл бұрын
It seems to me that the first tip in this genre, talking about compression, should be parallel compression on the vocals. This is a widely used goto trick to make the main vocal stick out while maintaining some dynamics. I prefer this more than high compression and volume automation as shown here, I find the former shows more dynamics from the artist than the latter. And if you do want to make certain words stick out slightly for artistic reasons, you can still do that on the parallel track or even record a DT for these words
@slavesforging5361 Жыл бұрын
you do realize that light parallel compression was exactly what he did. the only thing that was different was he automated the parallel and the original.
@shestudiossheila7423 Жыл бұрын
Go Willie! Great Job!
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
Thanks ever so much Sheila
@henryijeoma Жыл бұрын
what delay time do you typically use for your slap delays? Less than 100ms?
@johanjof5613 Жыл бұрын
From my experience it does not really matter but yes below 100, I typically land around 30 or 40, but any slapback preset should do. What matters is the blending between your track and the slapback track, and most importantly the eq moves on the slapback track to avoid the added muddiness.
@henryijeoma Жыл бұрын
@@johanjof5613 thank you man
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
Yes, below 100ms adds real thickness to vocals, rap etc
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
@@johanjof5613 well said! Thanks ever so much!
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
@@henryijeoma yes, great comment
@galladebutcooler8645 Жыл бұрын
Death metal mixing contest’s results when? 🥺
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
When we’ve listened to every single mix and not before!
@volusz Жыл бұрын
You know what? I'm really confused... I really appreciate all these mixing engineers... but if you listen to a few people where they work in this music industry... I don't know where I have to go... some mix engineers told me "music is like a puzzle, all the pieces have to fit together so we have to cut something out to fit something else." the next engineer told me that "sounds have to work together, sounds are not jigsaw puzzles where something is cut out to make room for something..." Who's right? I think no one ... if something sounds good, no matter which way you go, you can achieve a great song ... I think the best technique is to just listen to other records, and if you like it, try to achieve that sound ... Thank you for your attention!
@samuelellringmann3424 Жыл бұрын
One is production advice, one is mixing advice ;-)
@volusz Жыл бұрын
@@samuelellringmann3424 You think that way, but the first is an engineer and the second is an engineer
@NoQualmsTheArtist Жыл бұрын
Both are correct, you are focusing on semantics. Mixing is like a puzzle there are many pieces that need to fit together. But picture the edges of the pieces as overlapping and not a hard edges where one stops and one starts. Some beginners think you need to filter all the pieces to fit in individual spaces, when engineers say music isn't a puzzle that's why it's called mixing they are addressing this problem. You have to remember art is difficult to describe, 10,000 people are all going to describe it different to each other. You can't expect them all to use the exact same words to explain what they do that's just impossible. It isn't that deep, don't read too much into each individual persons words.
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
I believe they are just people talking about how their brain works. Of course picking anything together is like fitting a jigsaw puzzle, however sonically sounds should overlap! It can be a puzzle, however it doesn't mean that the sounds are all isolated, I've never anyone who builds a song like that. So they are just using the phrase to support their idea, not to be taken as meaning something extreme.
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
Indeed NoQualms! It's just a phrase that works in context of what they are saying!
@randomschittz9461 Жыл бұрын
Turn up the volume, turn down the volume.. a kid could mix rap.
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
I'm all for kids getting in to mixing! Glad this will be helpful for them.
@davehall8584 Жыл бұрын
LOL! i want to mix SINGERS! not somebody SPEAKING.
@samuelellringmann3424 Жыл бұрын
can put autotune and mix after
@percusswords Жыл бұрын
Then this might not be for you! What's the point of this comment?
@commonsense5188 Жыл бұрын
@@percusswords Typical non-sense from someone who can only view hip hop/rap with disrespect. Remarkable that one could read the TITLE of the video, then post a goofy ass comment as if the title does not indicate WHAT is being mixed and talked about here. A real winner, obviously.
@samuelellringmann3424 Жыл бұрын
@@commonsense5188 to be fair rap wasnt in the title of the video in the beginning. We updated that, so its all good
@NLNPNL Жыл бұрын
Which one of these techniques wouldn't apply to singing?
@ChiefMiddleFinger Жыл бұрын
This is not my preferred genre, but many production techniques seem to be universal.
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
Very well said
@nobodyspecialmusic Жыл бұрын
I do rap and r&b and have learned half if not more of the techniques I use from other genres.
@Producelikeapro Жыл бұрын
@@nobodyspecialmusic thanks ever so much!
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