Vocal production requires a serious amount of finesse from engineers. It’s one of those skills that can keep a steady flow of work coming your way and it’s easy to hear why. When you absolutely nail a vocal in a song, others will notice. Here are just a few of the places you can start to create a powerful, attention-capturing vocal:
In a dense mix, an electric bass track can get easily buried in the background. It’s not anything you’ve done wrong really; our ears are just naturally inclined to pick up the mid/high frequency content (especially when there’s a lot of it).
Guitar solos are one of those things that you can never have enough of. Over the top shredding finds its way front and center in tons of rock & metal songs, as well as nearly every other genre that supports a bit of face-melting.
What’s the largest session you’ve ever worked on? 50 tracks? 100 tracks? 200? At what point do you start losing individuality between the tracks and start muting instruments for space?
Tracking guitars can be an extremely long process that requires an acute attention to detail – not just from the guitarist, but the engineer/producer as well.
While there’s always going to be an appeal to a well-tracked clean & intelligible vocal, sometimes you need to step outside of the box a bit. Vocal performance styles vary greatly between different singers, but there are certain techniques that are universal in creating lush soundscapes; none more relevant to production than the reverse delay swell.
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Have you ever heard of the LCR approach to mixing? LCR is the concept that a professional mix can be achieved using just 3 positions: Left, Center & Right.