Simply select a frequency range, set sharpness and intensity and dial in the amount of effect you need to smooth out your vocals. Hot tip : Most DAWs come bundled with a perfectly good de-esser for cleaning up vocals. Try your native plugin bundle before rushing to download a free de-esser. Add up to 6 voices of chorus and shape the sound with the onboard EQ to get the ideal vocal modulation. Vocal doubling has a long history in music production.
Next up are your ambience effects. These are the processors that give your vocals a sense of space and dimension in the mix. The frequency control lets you take it from pristine digital repeats to lo-fi filtered madness at the touch of a dial.
TAL Dub-2 is a retro-style delay that models the stylish dirty delays from old-school dub reggae. With powerful controls for saturation and modulation, you can build any analog-style delay you can imagine. Finally, reverb is essential in any vocal mix. This is the effect that simulates the reflections from rigid surfaces that situate a sound in its physical environment.
The quality of the reverberation gives your brain clues about where the sound takes place. For example, a long diffuse reverb might evoke a large concert hall while a short, ringy decay could be a tiled bathroom.
The Dragonfly bundle of free reverb plugins covers all the important styles of reverb for your mix. OrilRiver is another favorite when it comes to free reverb effects. TAL Reverb-2 is a classic reverb with a dreamy, enveloping sound. There are plenty of different approaches when it comes to mixing vocals.
TDR Kotelnikov is a powerhouse wideband dynamics processor. It can change the dynamic range in a major way without losing the original tone, timbre, and punch of any signal. That makes it great for stereo bus compression, in addition to a host of other applications, including mastering, of course.
Its main controls include threshold, peak crest, soft knee, ratio, attack, release peak, release RMS, makeup, dry mix, out gain, Delta, and bypass. It features a simple interface, mostly centered around the knobs, with a single accent color in this case, blue. Some users call it the most transparent mastering plugin available.
Download: Tokyo Dawn Records. TDR Molotok is yet another Tokyo Dawn Records creation, and while it is closer to a transient processor, knowing the quality of products TDR creates, we thought it was worthy of inclusion.
Molotok is perfect for drums, vocals, guitar, bass, and more, whether you want to add some crispness and impact, or enrichment and enhancement to specific tracks. Its interface is a little different from the typical TDR plugins, but still intuitive and simply designed. Most producers seem to love this compressor, and it has a lot of controls that give you access to compression character you might not be able to achieve with other compressors.
That said, dialing in your ideal tone may take some time, so be patient with the process. MJUC jr. A deep, lively soundstage comes alive with the two gain stages and interstage transformer simulation. The three-position timing switch gives you control over the attack and release times, as well as the slew rate of the transformers and other timing settings influencing the generated harmonics or saturation.
Again, we dig the Klanghelm interface. Beautiful, realistic, simple. And it looks like it could be a real piece of hardware gear. Your main controls are compress, time constants fast, slow, auto , and make-up. As you can see, it is a simplistic compressor, but it is powerful. It will add some coloration to your tracks, but in this case, in a good way. This VST features a classic peach colored interface. It has two sections, including compression with controls for attack, ratio, threshold, and makeup.
Playing around with the dry and wet knob allows your original vocal to shine through behind your tuned vocal. And by adjusting the width — your autotuned vocals are transported to the edge of your monitors.
Together with the formant shift, these effects can make for some outstanding vocal doubling results. What happens when you record vocals and realize in the studio that the microphone placement was off? Not exactly.
Vladg Sound and Tokyo Dawn have created a free solution to this problem, called Proximity. How can you solve recording with the wrong microphone placement in the studio?
Well, different microphone placements have specific sound characteristics. For example, a greater distance away from the mic gives a loss in low frequencies. Proximity understands all surrounding psychoacoustic and corrects the faults to restore your sound accurately.
Simply set the original distance of your microphone and tell Proximity what you want to achieve. And just like that, the sound is now bright, clear — as it should be. This plugin also works to emulate the opposite. Your microphone placement might have been perfect, but now you're looking to change things up. Proximity does that, too, with ease. Vocal doubling is a vital technique for any producer dealing with vocals. Luckily for us, iZotope, one of the most prolific plugin creators, has released its Vocal Doubler for free.
The technique stems from doing double or sometimes more takes of the same vocal in a recording session. By treating each vocal track differently, you can achieve vocal layers that add emotion and pack more of a punch with different panning and effects. But doing multiple recording is time-consuming. With an intuitive, clean interface, doubling your vocals to perfection has never been easier. Simply drag the slider up and down for stereo separation or left and right for human variation. While many mostly do the same thing, different plugins offer different reverb algorithms and produce varying results.
In our How to Mix Music guide we talked about why mixing dynamic sounds is a tough egg to crack. Pretty useful and pretty cool. MAutoPitch is one of the best auto-tune plugins around. Reverb for vocals is essential. Reverb takes your vocals out of the room you recorded them in, and allows you to make your own sound space.
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