I’m not the highest grade of weed in the dispensary BUT, boosting frequencies actually does increase the volume of that frequency...i promise you I’m not lying

Literally just got vocals recorded and ready to mix, it was meant to be

i found this video to be very helpful. here is this video simplified: step 1: eq vocals (add brightness/character) 2:35 step 2: compress vocals (consistency) 3:59 step 3: make sure your vocal sounds good with the rest of the song (masking) 7:03 step 4: do not let your vocal be too loud (bonus tip) 12:25

I just did that, and I was amazed how well this trick can make the vocals sit without no need to increase the volume. Thank u so much for that!

This has opened my mind so much more.

My mixing "guru" told me the vocals are too loud on a track I sent, and somehow the link to this video popped up on my phone ;-) Very clear and helpful as always! Thanks, Dylan and MOAM!

de-masking is everything. thank you.

That was super interesting! I've been for years not wondering how so many songs I listen to manage to make the vocals so loud and clear without having to pull all the instruments down to make it fit, and now I get how!

Creating loudness is something I ALWAYS struggle with omg i just know this is gonna be so helpful already! thank you so much!

Information here is just as clear and concise as I'd expect a paid music production class to be. Great explanations!

Your 10-hour compressor class really-really helped me hear the differences a compressor makes, because of the level-matching. Now it was obvious how the vocals were either too loud or too meek before the compression. Thanks a lot!

This is the video I've been looking for the past 3 months Thank you very much

Thanks so much Dylan. I have never hear this bonus tip from anyone before. It is super useful to keep in mind when mixing. Thanks for sharing. 👌👌🎼

This was incredibly helpful to a beginner! Thanks for sharing your knowledge, it makes perfect sense when laid out like this

Very informative video, I find sidechain compression helps a lot as well, by sidechaining the masking instruments with the vocals, so the vocals are always front and centre

Awesome tips!!! Enjoying and learning them right here from Brazil! Your videos are great! They've been helping me a lot. Thanks!

Really excellent video. The section on masking was great; I never thought to go through the mix and just mute a track at a time while being tuned into the vocals

Subscribed. You fixed the exact problem I had. Gave me a really simple yet effective way to make the vocal sit perfectly. Thank you!

I was actually thinking about this yesterday after I was listening to a song with really high pitched vocals, and although it was 100% clear in the mix, it felt soft and nice to hear. Now I know how to do it. Thank you so much!

Thank you for this video. As a beginner doing my own mixing/mastering this helped a lot. I’m good with the music but my vocals always lacking something. This made them pop. Thanks 🙏🏻

This is the EQ video I’ve been looking for forever

This was amazing, my man. I've recently been experimenting with adding vocals to my own stuff, and it always sounded like things didnt "fit" properly. I'm definitely gonna be giving all these a shot! Thanks for putting this together, Dylan! Shoutouts to ya =D

musician on a mission is the best channel and websites to gain knowledge with free of cost amazing. All u need is time, patience

I'm gonna watch this a few times and write everything down, this is a huuuge help! Thanks a lot! 🙌

Perfectly explained without holding back. Well done. Subscribed!

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This is a great summary for dealing with the vocal loudness problem. I think the very last tip ie turn down your vocal before initiating the cut through techniques is very sensible. Thanks again...

This explaination is on another level! Thank you so much for this!

Great video. Well explained. Loved it

Always appreciate your videos. Thank you!

Awesome concise perspective on this.

This is amazing. I was confused why my beats sounded so bad when I added vocals on top. I used this method and boom it sounds magical. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for this video, so much appreciation 🙏🏼❤️

This was a great video! very well explained!

I do a lot of mixing with heavy guitars and always struggle to get them to play well with the vocals... ...I think the masking section is going to help tremendously, what a great video!

Thank you for the tips!

Interesting video, I'm new to audio design and while I've noticed "frequency jamming", I did not clue in before that brighter sounds appear to be closer -- thx for sharing these tips, I learned a lot!

Thank you so much for this video, this was incredibly helpful and insightful. Your teaching method is excellent, new sub here. Much appreciated for your time, content, and knowledge.

WOW MAN, that masking was genius.. This dude is amazing with the information.. Thank you again buddy.. I had to sub.. Wow...

My guy! The chapters time stamps....thank you... you are the man

very well explained! Thanks👌🏽

Funny with the bonus tip i wasnt aware i already did that. The rest i will add to my arsenal, tnx

I swear my vocals are either too quiet or too loud! This helped very much! Thank you so much!

Great video and thank you so much for the time stamps

I was "theorizing" myself why I get my vocals very loud but they don't seem upfront, they would just mess with every other instrument.... And it feels so much better to hear a proper solution.

Thanks friend, superb tutorial !

Unmasking, am heading to try it out. Gracias!!!

Great tips! Thanks!

this tips are awsome ,espicially The musking part.Thanks a lot.

I really love this video! Here’s my two cents: Pro Q3 has a tool where it can show which frequencies are clashing the most between two tracks. Knowing this I would probably use that tool (for the masking portion of this video) and then apply a dynamic eq to the frequencies of the instrument that’s clashing with the vocals (I use TDR NOVA because it’s a free dynamic eq where u can have multiple eq bands sidechaining in different ways) so that the instrument doesn’t have to always have that eq dip. When the vocals go away the instrument can return to its normal state. Just a thought 🙏

Masking tip was a game changer for me, thanks dude!

Needed this right now.

Very good video, thank you!

Super useful! Thank you!

This video created a breakthrough for me in my audio engineer career.

Very helpful! Thanks a lot 👍

dude holy shekels... that last tip was the One to Rule Them All. very Pro Tip. you are the Boss. I bet you hve one vid on groups. i am liking your grouping from what i can see

Thanks a lot for being very helpful.

Thanks for your class , is very good to know those details, only one thing that i am sure will improve your work, is using a different songs to appreciate the difference. I respect who like that music, but we are ready got great songs and better singers.

OH! Now...now I understand feedback I have been getting on my person's mix/master.

nice visualizitation with the guitar and piano blurring the line as you are explaining your point!

This was SUPER helpful!!!!

Great content, thanks!

THIS WAS AWESOME

so nice!you make some of the best tutorials on youtube!

I wish I had this information 10 years ago. Thank you for making htis!

You explained it very nicely.

Great video. Thank you.

Huge tips thanks mate

Really great video thank you

Thanks for explaining the masking! I have never understood the whole cutting process.

Made sense thanks! 👌

thank you for the knowledge

Amazing tips

Thanks... Awesome. Greetings from the Netherlands

this is amazing content!

Thank you for this video! I came here for the EQing, but ended up realising my mix’s problem is phasing. What would I do without your tutorials 🖤

Very helpful.. Thankkssss a lotttt

Thank you so much.

Man you broke this down clear .

Thank you....cool

Great video

Thank you

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1) Load a favourite track from the same genre - compare loudness/clarity or whatever you're looking for! 2)Use Wavesfactory Trackspacer vst plugin, send an instrument that is not the main one that you wanna hear, EQ cuts will sound worse than Trackspacer has and more importantly far less work! 3) Control Stereo width within the mix.4) Nothing will be too loud!

Thanks man

Refreshing tips

You can also sidechain to reduce masking, even sidechain a multiband compressor.

this is too good

I really love you take on masking. Question: what if the frequency I need to cut for an instrument is the bread-and-butter tone center for the instrument?

dude you sound exactly like badger from breaking bad and i love it

Good tips, they also help to reduce muddiness in the vocal tracks. Sometimes it goes the other way too, the VOX sound lower when you add reverb or delay.

Thanks

I do the ol pultec trick to cut the mud and add some bass then add air at around 12khz. 3 moves is usually all it takes to get in the ball park.

I'm sorry, but the repeated comments about not increasing the volume are blatantly incorrect. At 2:10 we can see the wet vocal meters are floating around -12 with peaks at -9. The dry vocal meters float around -18 with peaks at -12. Similar changes occur for the other two vocal tracks. That isn't "the illusion of loudness". That's just loudness. If we simplify the wet-dry difference to 4db, then the sound intensity of the wet signal is 251% of the dry signal. Which translates to a 32% increase in perceived loudness. Which is not resultant from your processing but simply from the increase in volume that you repeatedly pretend isn't happening. You have a position as an educator, and thus a responsibility not to perpetuate misinformation. Level match your processing. The techniques in this video are otherwise strong. Thanks.

thanks man

Finally a hip hop vocal tutorial 🙌🙌 I would love to watch a tutorial on how to mix hiphop/rap beats 🙏🙏 how to balance it or just anything related to hip hop 😄 It would be very helpful

Logo is coool...

6:50 i would really appreciate a tutorial on this!! using compression to kind of glue lead vocals and doubles together. i always struggle with mixing in doubles/harmonies so they don't stand out too much

that point on brightness ive experienced with stuff like hi-hats and percussion, never knew that! should i compensate on that with lowered volume or remove some high-end? i think for separate headphones itll be a different volume, im guessing EQ would help with that?