Hip Hop Vocal Layering Like A Pro (Verse)
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I just gotta say bro. I come to your videos all the time just to soak up useful information
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Good information. I usually process each vocals with separate eq. And will treat vocal layering with 3 sections of High, mids and lows wih each having their respective harmony. This is very useful to bring in variation in vocal tones when mixed with panning.
Don’t we all
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Those awk 5 seconds when the person instructing plays their track and you're nervous it's going to sound bad.
It didn't sound bad, thanks for the vid Sean!
lol thanks TC!
Always happens to me my heartbeat goes up😂😂😂😂
6 years later here for it, simple n precise!
been writing for a very long time and just started to record. And as someone who's brand new to the beat making/producing recording process, I really appreciate this and other videos like it! I hope everybody surpasses eltheir goals!
Bro you absolutely killed it with your explanation. Thank you!
Awesome tip. Thanks Sean.
Thank you!
Amazing instructor
Bro Puuuuuuurrrrrrrrfect! All i needed to hear Rap, Vocal Recording Tomorow Now!
Eye opener on the two take for left and right!
I LOVE YOU SO MUCH THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!!!
sounds dope defiantly going to try this method
That's what I'm looking for thank you so much
This video was literally a life saver THANK YOU SO MUCH!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Yes, thank you
I just downloaded your vocal chain I’m excited to try it out. Thanks
So helpful! Thank you!
Excelnt video. Blessings
Been strugglin with this, this video really put it clearly on what i was trying to do , much appreciated bro
Awesome.
Thanks for the video bro. I normally do everything take by take this helped lots... but i also like how the different takes sound after panning.
Ayyyeee let’s go! 🔥🔥🔥
Much appreciate, thanks for the info!
I have let people record my stuff for years. I really enjoy your videos. Thanks!
Thank you so much! I tried layering for the first time, and your video made me enable layering
Nice one. Just what I need🤝🏽
Your videos 10/10 Thank you for your effort
U r not a only musician
U r also a magician .
What a sound ..! Amazing man!
:) thank you
This is amazing the sound, it's just wow 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
thank you Zcian :)
thank so much sir
GOOD LESSON 😊
THANK YOU!! This is exactly the information I was looking for!! 💙
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Good tutorial man, really helpful and to the point!
glad to hear it man!
Thank you for breaking this down and making this easy to understand 💯
Glad it helped Austin
Finally! Useful tips explained in a way I could understand!. Thanks bro. Liked and subbed!
I like how you explained this. I have so many people that want to copy and paste the chorus and pan them. then copy and paste the verses. You did really good on this. I use vocalign on all the dub tracks to line them up with the primary verse take, same on the chorus too. Makes it align more than humanly possible and gives it this “perfect” feel.
@jkaye87 I just tried the Vocalign demo, and it is definitely a must have plugin.
guys how do you mix the dubs
Α video you can't deny
dope
Thanks bro 🤝
Thanks for this video Sean. This is probably like over 3 times I've retuned back to watch it now. Because every time it comes back to mixing it totally loses me again, on what I did before. But this video is a good reminder again. I don't do it exactly the same but the mixing style is very similar. So thank you!
my pleasure Richard!
This is Gold Sean 💯
Eli Davis :)
Great tune......glad I watched this. Music's totally different to what I do but the concept's the same.;-)
Respect bredda
The way you do the dubs is similar to how I do adlibs
And nice about processing on the same bus 👍🏻. Took me some years before I learned that
Vocal layers should be experimented with. If you have:
1mid
2pan
2pan harmony
2pan lower/upper octave
1 adlibs
You can try all kinds of crazy mixing
Do you record upper and lower octave or just transpose them? Cause im looking into this and thats what brought me here lol
@Rich Sounds Gaming & Music I recorded them. I have no idea to sing, but I'm afraid of phasing issues xD
@emanuelvancea5405 yeah im thinking of trying 2nd take vocals and then maybe tuning them up and down after as secondary so they dont phase eachother.. 🤔 i hear artists doing these high pitch dubs that throw me for a loop when i hear them
thank you that helps
Thanks sean very helpful.
glad to hear it!
I love you sir. God bless
God bless 🙏
Gonna try this on my next song
GREAT explanation
Glad it was helpful!
It took me 3 days to get just one take sounding right 😬😅
Then just use a doubler
Tuff
I relate
The only take that matters is the final one bro. It's the one that people gonna hear.
I understand your pain, personally I don't do many, just one is enough for me
Love this video brother and find a lot of value in it. Love all your videos actually. And you composure. Love how calm and collected you are. Can you do a follow up video on this one and teach us how to mix these layers?
so glad to hear it! thank you. I will try and do more layering videos - there are quite a few on the channel showing this i.e. czcams.com/video/vSz9CtJ6S6A/video.html
king!
Thank you
sure thing!
Another great video. Waiting to a response on a quote so I can get some of this mixing magic for myself
Thanks man
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Tnx man 🔥
No problem 👍
I've heard them called layers, dubs, punches, ad-libs, hits etc. But I think the technical term would be backup vocals. I personally tend to separate the backup vocals from _my_ sessions into two kinds: Backup Vox and Harmony Vox. And that depends on what they're doing to the vocal.
Backup Vocals might stray from the sound whereas Harmony Vocals are tighter to the original performance, in order to specifically add additional harmonics to the vocal.
Sorry i know its a Long Time but i would really love to understand. Ist harmony vox more for Like edited doubles with for example distortened, Autotune, reverb etc? And the other Backup vox or whatever Just the dobuled word exactly rapped like the the word you want to dobule?
them are stacks and adlibs are other stacks than doubles or backups.
nice work
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Nice video, Solid! Glad it came onto my feed, it’s definitely gonna come in handy big time for this work I’m about to put in for the Kingdom.
awesome, glad to help! 🙌
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welcome!
I always use the same bus. Other tutorials always say to link effects to different tracks on your vocals and it’s hard to replicate all the effects to create consistency in the whole song.
yo this song is hard
thanks man
love the content helps a lot, this can go as far as even to the hooks about when you say send the main dub and or in/out thru same bus?
Something I used to do, and maybe even do again is that I would record two additional takes where I rap about the last half of each bar and pan them left and right so it pops out. I started doing that only for the rhymes in my songs, but I'm very unhappy with it, so I think I'll go back, use 2 stacks to beef up my lead vocal and two stacks of just the end-half of each bar. I dunno why I used to do it like that, but I always kind of liked it. It's more coherent than dubbing only the rhymes like I did a couple of times and kinda sounds better to me.
Big fan of this video. I’m new to all of this and was doing something very similar to when mixing. It’s sounds good but still slightly lacking. With your direction in this vid I’m confident i can really finish my stuff off nicely 👍👍
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Liked and Subbd...Great value!
this is magical bro...
thank you!
where can i get the track?
it's called Not Just A Number - smarturl.it/NTSAlbum
cool...big ups bro keep doing you, your tracks are super dope
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That might sound even better if you sent your Vox Bus and Instrumental to a single Reverb to adda cohesiveness to it all. I like using Eventide 2016 Stereo Room for this. But a hall or plate would work really nicely too.
I try to make it as short as possible so that it's only adding a touch of glue to everything.
good idea I alway retake but maybe I should keep my old take and mix them together.
yo this was posted on my birthday
Kool video. When is the track coming out. Sounds great. Keep it up
thanks! it will be released in October :)
Thank you, I did beats so much that I forgot this basic information 😅 peace
Well dang I was already doin most of this without knowin 😭 found out how to do it by accident
If u copy and paste to stack them, even with added delay or reverb you WILL have phase issues. It might sound ok sometimes with the phase effect but it will be there I promise. I just had a another session yesterday were I tried this on a hook at it was immediately apparent.
yes, definitely wouldn't recommend copying identical takes!
I been looking for this type of help because my nephew voice drops out during the vocal recording & I'm stuck trying to fill the void
Vocal doubler and good compression helps too
First tutorial that kinda got me lit.
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I was doing the same trick, but I thought you had to pan the same vocals to make it more wide!
I see you’re just keep the vocal centered and just lower the volume of the vocals.
Interesting to see different ways of processing multiple takes. I tend to record 1 take & then duplicate & parallel compress it. Going to try this next time I record. Thanks for sharing Sean! Peace+Love
Vocal layer canibus poet laureate infinity 5 layers of 200 bars that can interlaced or layered for verses or 1000 bars from 2007 !
Thanks for these vids Sean. I assume that the glued together scenario is ideal which is the reason you run everything through the same bus. Would it be proper to run other elements of the song through the same bus, such as the instrumental or parts of it? Or is it best to keep that separate? What are best practices to achieve the glued effect across the whole song?
it depends on the sonic qualities of the song but I typically prefer to keep the instrumental elements separate. I may process a parallel drum bus or group some synths together through the same compression. No rules, it's just a matter of using your ears and applying the tools to create more cohesion when needed :)
I’ve always be taught to do a main a double and then libs
Do you have tutorials of how to make snare and hat rolls in Logic Pro x?
Can u do more cubase mixing ?
Hi Sean,this is awesome as always.Always looking forward to your videos.Sean please i have a question,is it ok to normalize your tracks when recording?
yes although I would not recommend it
This is important..Ive bin recording 1 time and wonder why it sounds thin
Mix sounds pretty damn good, bro!
Nine plugins in a chain though... That's some heavy processing. Do you experience any latency issues or CPU overloads with that many layers and inserts?
I normally wouldn't use that many :) it can cause issues if it's spread across multiple channels which is why I utilize aux tracks so often!
Hello Sean,
Thanms for the awesome tutorials. I wanted to ask if there is going to be any *Black Friday* sales coming soon, since I want to buy your mixing course i was wondering about that.
it's likely, keep an eye out :)
@@SeanDivine I will.
Thanks brother
Ayo Sean can u do a tutorial on how to make your verse thick with one track ? With Logic stock plugins pls ? 🙏🏾
czcams.com/video/W2-2a6VLS4g/video.html, czcams.com/video/fwH9LOMLZdk/video.html
Hey Sean, I was wondering, do you use any kind of alignment software on your vocals or do you leave them as is? Or maybe do you align it by slip editing or anything like that? Thanks!
Hey Marcus, I don't use any alignment software for vocals - there may be a situation where I nudge a word or phrase just slightly but very rarely
Good stuff. I know you copied your vocal chain down for every layer, but I've heard a lot of people say that you should pull out some of the highs on your layers or boost the highs on your main so that it peeks through the most. Have you ever tinkered with that?
@seandivine: Have you tried putting your pans in stereo pan? If you right click on the pan knob you will see it.
I have, thanks Chris! Just keep them as is out of habit :)
Thanks a lot, man. Another question: what did you do to make the vocals sound so expressive?
Just watch your compression bro. Biggest problem with that issue is performance and compression. It can take all expression out
Hi Sean, great video as always. On this video I notice on the channel for each vocal there is no plugins but that you have bused everything to the same Aux. Does this mean you are blending the original vocals in with the processed vocals, like a sort of parallel processing?
Many thanks!
no, I'm routing the entire output to an aux for processing :)
That is was gr8!! Knowledge...I have a question...when we do vocal layering...how can we make a prefect match to our normal day to day life voice...I don't want to sound prefacto in my audio released...nd when I'm out in public or at a Radio station or at a Live concert....then I sound different...how to attain that prefect balance...I know it sounds crazy...but that what...I want to achieve....I don't want to sound awesome in vedio...& then when people actually heading my voice...they get pissed off. Few Hints / suggestions...will be of Gr8!! Help.
Question:
Is it possible to just record your take A with two separate Mics and then layer those two?this way you don't have the hassle of recording two times. Or would still have issues with phasing?
i have a question if now you want to put some distortion, where you put that. I was thinking about side chaining, but sidechaining and layering is not compatible right ?