ouch! That went way over my poor little head. In the longrun, I wanan
learn to do all that, but for now, what would you say you'd focus on
learning before anything further. Let's take this one step at a time. All
these things're overwhelming me.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Martin" <monkeypushe...@gmail.com>
To: <ptaccess@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: Erm, boss? We gotta little pwobwem, LOL!
ok two things. If the vocals aren't loud enough, instead of turning up the
vocals bring down the level on the karaoke track. Secondly Stop trying to
boost the highs, and cut the mud instead. Rule #1 of using EQ cut before you
boost. First off, you probably want to run the vocals through a high pass
filter, cutting off all frequencies around 150HZ to 200HZ, Experiment and
fine tune to taste. Secendly then try cutting some where in the miss as well
to help bring out the highs more. If you do ending up boosting the highs, a
small amount goes a long way after following steps 1 and 2. Also you may
have a decent studio grade condenser, but the weak link in your chain right
now could be the multi mix and it's inexpensive per's. But chances are this
is probably the least of your worries for now and the EQ tips I mentioned
above should get you started. Add the Air 1 band or 3 band eq that comes
with PT on the track and start experimenting. ASlso in the reverb blog in,
see if it has a high pass and low pass setting, you may want to set the high
pass to the same setting as the eq's high pass, and set the low pass
somewhere around 5khz. Hope this helps at least get you started.
On Oct 2, 2011, at 1:57 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
OK, first of all, download this mp3 I made in PT. I had to use Audio
Hijack Pro to get it mixed to an mp3 till I find out what the heck my
bouncing issue is, but anyway, again, here, get this first of all:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/7fm4u2
OK, yeah, yeah, don't chastise my vocals, I know they're r'real! bad.
Probably God aweful! I didn't say I was totally warmed up. Anyway,
notice the music track is very natural sounding. All I did's run some
reverb on my two vocal tracks. the one doing the lead vocal, and the one
doing the high shoo wop part, then also added auto-tune, and a little more
reverb on the karaoke track, as frankly, in my book, it was way too dry
originally. Maybe I over-did it, but anyway, the issue is if I turn the
high up on my multi mix interface, I start clipping. If i turn the hi up
and then either my fader or my trim down on the board, I'm too soft. If I
back the hi off on the board as I did, as you can hear my vocals sound
muffled. They dont/' have that clean brightness that I need. Yes, this
is a studio grade condenser phantom-powered mike. So I'm not running
cheap stuff here. I mean it isn't toppa the line, by any means, but it's
not low end either at all.
I have the entire folder will all the session files. Would it help more
if I send space you all that so you can actually see the project, and all
my levels etc?
I just wonder how we can get the vocal a bit more bright and less muffled
seeing the above issues. I'm kind a darned if I do, darned if I don't,
catch 22.
Don't just fix it for me, I mean, you can, if you have the time and want
to, but I need to learn how to do this, so don't tell me my vocals are
off, I know that. More, what should I do to make this mix better? Be
nice, be nice! LOL! I'm a beh bee, I'm still learning. LOL!
Chris.
