If your vocalist sounds like they have a bit of a cold then cut around the 1 kHz area to get rid of it. Remember that when cutting you should have your Q pretty narrow because you are trying to repair your recording, and cutting too broadly from the frequency spectrum will severely compromise the natural sound of the vocal. If your vocal track lacks definition and sounds boxy you can sweep around this area, even going so far as up to 800 Hz. Boosting here can give the vocal more punch. Some singers sound thin and nasally and can do with a little meat on their vocal cords. The Thick 150 Hzįor rounding out a vocal and making it more thick and full I would search around the 150 Hz area. But be careful of Barry White and Leonard Cohen type singers, they may need that extra rumble in their voice. For female singers, you can go even higher. Listening is critical here because you don’t want to cut out the singer’s character, especially if he has a good presence there in the lower register. Obviously, this depends on the singer’s voice but I usually go for a little over 100 Hz. Usually, this cuts at 75 or so but during mixing, you can filter it out even more. Flip on the low-cut filter on the microphone when you’re recording to cut out the low-end rumble. Usually, vocals can be filtered quite severely in the lowest range.
So be sure to have a clean and well-recorded vocal before you start mixing it. It goes without saying that no amount of EQ’ing is going to fix a badly recorded vocal. We open the Insiders membership a few times a year and you can join the waiting list here.
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The track I’m using in this video is called “Mailbox Money” by the Techsans Roadhouse Band. Sometimes it seems to sound like it was stuck on later, and doesn’t flow with the rest of the track.īelow are the six frequency ranges you can start with when you are in trouble and need to figure out how to equalize your vocal so that it sits better with your song.
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