How to use delay for vocals - 5 easy tips
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- There are lots of creative ways to dial in your delay to turn your average mix into something special. In this video, Brian will show you his five secret tricks to make your vocals shine. Check out the video, load your favorite plugin, and let's start mixing!
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00:00 Intro
00:20 Short slap delay
03:13 Longer slap delay
05:43 Ping Pong delay
08:36 Ducked long delay
11:22 Delay throw
15:26 Outro
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Very good overview. Thanks.
Well done! Thank you for posting!
Another awesome video!
That “ahhh” at the beginning got me😂
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Excellent content, thanks!
Thanks for sharing these valuable techniques, Brian! I've been listening to Eastern Souvenirs back and forth for the last couple of weeks. I love what you are doing!
Really appreciate it!
This is incredibly helpful! I really appreciate how tasteful you are with these production techniques!!
Thanks a lot!
Concise, thorough, to the point. Excellent video!
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Excellent pointers on delay, reverb, EQ for them, and ducking them. I like doing these myself, and can be a great way to add to the sound.
Thx for your comment! Happy you like the video.
Really an excellent video!
Thanks for the feedback. Glad you like it. Stay tuned for more
Thx a million
Thanks for watching! Glad it was helpful
Useful stuff. Thx! I'll be using the J37 trick!
A couple of, hopefully helpful, thoughts: 1) Nice to know you are 'Brian' but might be good to add a last name and a single line of description telling us your bona fides. 2) The narrative gets a bit tedious due, I think, to lack of dynamic range. Maybe a little less compressor/limiter could help with that.
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Amazing video, great information! I have a question, with layers like backing vocals or chorus backing vocals, is it good to use the same delay on all the layers like for example an 1/4 or 1/8 ping pong delay?
Or is it best to only have separate type of delays on each vocals layer or should I only use delay on one vocal track amongst the vocal stacks?
Like I my lead vocals, a double and then 2 highlight ad-libs. Should I add delay to the lead, double and ad-libs? Or just the lead? What do you think? I know it's subjective but I'm curious to hear from you and your thoughts on this
Hope them questions makes sense. Thanks in advance
No rules here, but I tend to send the backing vocals to the same delays and reverb auxes. It's just more convenient and feels more cohesive. That said, sometimes I'll add a seperate delay or reverb on certain BGVs like "oohs" and "aahs" so they feel distinctly seperate from the main vocals. Sometimes on pop vocals it sounds better to only send the lead vocal to the longer delays so there is a cleaner tail.
@@LEWITT-audio Okay thanks. Makes sense in terms of cohesion to have all the same delay and reverb effects on the backing vocals stacks. What about the lead vocals though? Do you also tend to put the same delays and reverbs to them that the backing vocals layers have or different ones? How do you process the lead vocals in terms of those effects relative to the backing vocals? Do you process then with the same effects, maybe a bit less intensity or do you keep them more dry?
@@LFiers Sorry, I meant to say that I often send all the backing vocals to the same reverb and delay auxes as the lead vocal. In general, lead vocals are usually drier (to feel more upfront) and backing vocals are usually wetter (to push them further back).
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tysm for the tutorial. Sir! what is this software you are using ? pls so i can download it
I'm using Logic Pro X. The plugins are Waves J37 and Soundtoys Echoboy
@@LEWITT-audio OMG thanks
So are you putting all these different delays on the track at once? Also you mentioned reverb at the end, it would be good to have an in-depth tutorial on using reverb, this one was great, thanks
Thx for the question. The idea was to show different approaches - you can use whatever fits your track. Plus, we'll add an in-depth reverb tutorial to our to-do list 😉
Some things that helps make these work better, and all were mentioned, use a send to another dedicated FX or bus channel on your DAW, EQ with high and low pass, sidechain ducking compression to help automate the effect.
You can then get creative by sending a delay into a reverb or two. In the case of two reverbs, I like doing a vocal plate reverb into a hall.
thanks@@DeltaWhiskeyBravo13579
You can definitely stack delays if they are different time and treated differently. In the released version of this track, I used a super fast delay to give the vocal width and then a longer delay as a more psychedelic, spatial effect.
ok cool, thanks@@easternsouvenirs
Vocal channel (all takes) -> Vocal Bus with inserts like pitch correction, gain, EQ, comp, Soothe, etc. -> Send this to Delay & Reverb Bus with EQ & Saturation -> Stereo mix
Is this correct?
Yep, that's how I'm doing mine. Sending it onto its own bus channel is pretty important. You can control the effect output with the fader, and can stack effects like delay to reverb (even 2 reverbs like plate to hall), EQ, sidechain ducking compression all within the bus. And you can send separate instruments and vocal parts into the one effect bus if you want.
@@DeltaWhiskeyBravo13579 I'd be pumped if you can me a template of a mix you've done - minus all takes/samples/names/loops etc. so that I can take a look at the routings you've done - please?
The clip of Yoko Ono had me gagging
Which Lewitt mic are you talking into or using?
I'm using the PURE TUBE on the intro and the LCT 540 S on my desk during the mixing portion.
I'm trying to do vocal delays on my song, and I tried copy pasting the two vocals and just making the second one a tiny bit late after the first. However that creates a electronic sound of my voice, like a robot almost. Anybody know why that is? I don't know much about sound engineering, so I'm trying to either rerecord my voice over the mail vocal, or just copy and paste.
Using a delay plugin would be much easier, but if you want to get good results for a "slapback" style delay in this way then delay the copy and pasted vocal about 100ms, high pass and low pass it (about 200hz and 4khz), and then turn down the copied vocal about 10-12dB. Add some saturation and modulation (chorus) and you'll have a nice slapback effect.
That is phase cancellation , once delayed the two tracks cancel each other in different frequencies
Thickness with clarity, cause sometimes reverb gets muddy.
the plosives on pushing sound really muddy, and the saturation on any "s" IMO is too much. That being said I really like the overall effect you are adding.
Unfortunately that was because I was singing a bit too close to the mic… left some artifacts, but I liked the take and felt it wasn’t very noticeable once effects were added. Good ear though!