You can _really_ hear the change in the chorus. The bottom-end re-appears. That's a nice way to do things.
@OKLAHOMALOVE2
8 ай бұрын
This right here!!! This is what I've always needed and never knew how to accomplish it. Thanks for this! Definitely going to sub with notification on. I really appreciate you!!
@sewardseward2030
4 ай бұрын
Bro you are the goat
@fredlopez40
Жыл бұрын
The way you explained everything was perfect.
@TheRussianGenius
2 ай бұрын
very good. 12 mins in. Wondered about EXPAND button there, when would YOU use it?
@AlexMinor
Жыл бұрын
This was a great tutorial. Never really knew how to approach using a multiband comp on vocals before. Thank you!
@lavinchi6709
Жыл бұрын
Thank you🎉
@joelarmendariz8876
11 ай бұрын
good insight and explanation of usage and technique, nicely done
@charliekey2979
Ай бұрын
This is gold! You are the man!
@theend9494
Ай бұрын
What is amazing is that no one had this in the past but their vocals are amazing , over the top too much detail not enough good music, no wonder music is so bad too interested in the toys
@charliekey2979
Ай бұрын
@@theend9494 I agree that's a true statement, but today's days there are a lot of artist and producers like myself without the budget to record in a properly acoustically designed studio, this has a big impact on the sound captured and by having this tools to process your sound, you can compensate a little bit to have a better sounding product.
@gradyshawver7643
4 ай бұрын
Excellent!
@billesposito2112
Жыл бұрын
Phenomenal tutorial Colt. 🤘Can't wait to implement it. I like the move of adding the lows back. That makes perfect sense. I always felt like I was lacking a bit of lows here and there but always chose reducing the lows overall and never put it back where it was needed. PSYCHED!!!!
@dandelay8377
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant. Thank you!
@TylerJamesRootz
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the gem
@SoundConstraints
Жыл бұрын
Vocal eq video with the worst eq'd vocals guiding us through it lol
@joshrainbow-IceTenor
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely magical :-) - I am an opera singer and battle a lot with getting the vocal right. This tip is truly amazing. A question, I compose orchestra and then add my vocal. Often the vocal doesn’t sound free in the mix which is caused by instruments that are fighting the vocal. Would you direct all the instrument orchestral groups to a separate bus to have the music duck when the vocal comes in. I now use izotope which has a masking feature. Love to learn more about this masking for vocals so I can get that vocal sound free in the mix instead of lying on top of the music or get buried on certain places. I also do recordings only with piano but struggle with the same issue :-)
@roxville
Жыл бұрын
I'd love to see your take on this too, Colt!
@DaftFader
Жыл бұрын
EQ placement is useful here. When mixing the other instrument(s) you want them ideally to have their own spot in the spectrum where their most important frequencies lay, and boost that for each instrument a little (or duck what's not important with eq, or a mix of both), being mindful to *NOT* pick frequencies that are the most important for vocals (for intelligibility) when boosting the instruments, and leave a "pocket" if you like where the vocals can sit. This is an oversimplification, but I think this is what is the main issue for you from what you have said. If you are working with just a stereo recording of the whole orchestra, you'll have to create this pocket after everything's already put together. You'll probably have to do a few eq cuts where the important frequencies of the vocal lay, but be careful to not destroy the sound of the orchestra in the process. Side chained Multi-band ducking in these specific frequencies, only when there is a vocal, can also help with that, but it needs to be very subtle, and ideally invisible to the listener. There are tools that can detect what frequencies are in a signal and create a negative imprint of that in an EQ or multi-band compression curve, this kind of thing also used subtlety may help (I think that's what that Izotopes plug in does if my memory serves me correct, I've never used it tho so may be wrong about that). Unfortunately you'll always be at a disadvantage when trying to fit vocals into a stereo mix, as opposed to mixing everything from scratch with the vocals in mind and the ability to change individual instrument tracks with EQ as you go to accommodate the vocals. Also automation of volume is your friend. If you have balanced levels (enough compression) and made space (with EQ) for the average level parts of your vocals (however with opera you probably want a reallly wide dynamic range, so am not sure how much compression you can actually get away with tbh), but your vocal still gets buried in the loud parts of the song, turn the vocals up a bit with automation for the loud musical parts (or at any point they are buried really)! Automation is one of the main ways of getting a dynamic (moving) mix, if volumes of the instruments are changing all the time the vocal will need to do so too, to keep up. I automate both as a first step in mixing for anything that immediately sticks out as really quiet or too loud (so my compression isn't doing unnecessary work), and again near the end on my groups once everything is leveled and balanced with compression/eq etc. to get the final dynamics of each part correct, if it isn't already in the performance (I work with synths a lot, so it rarely is already there in the performance for me). Also if it's only a part of your vocals, say the low end of your vocals, that dips behind the other sounds, then this tip from colt is exactly designed for that by the sounds of what colt is saying in the vid. ;)
@stepsons589
Жыл бұрын
singer is dooooope
@vladlabyrinth6335
Жыл бұрын
can i ask from where this strange lowend in your voice comes from at the beginning of this video? strange mic position? eq? or table reflections maybe?
@alimanouchehrian5225
Жыл бұрын
👏
@sleonse
Жыл бұрын
FABFILTER MARRY ME
@ArielAtaide
Жыл бұрын
could i use soothe 2 to do the same job?
@flash2k
Жыл бұрын
can someone explain the range??
@blametheobserver
Жыл бұрын
If someone sells you a car part, and then you buy a new car, should they give you an updated car part for free? Do you give free mix revisions for life? Bug fixes are one thing but complete updates to work on a new system should be paid for. If they do it for free then it's awesome but they don't have to.
@ldf1106
Жыл бұрын
What's different between dynamic EQ and multiband compressor?
@DaftFader
Жыл бұрын
A multi-band compressor uses a series of band pass filters with set crossover interplay to separate the sections and applies compression to them individually. Where as a dynamic EQ you can get much more specific with overlapping bell curves and eq out a sections as well as apply dynamic gain reduction to that frequency range, and really hone in on single sounds if they are already blended with other sounds for example as well as easily making complex threshold curves for the dynamics processing to trigger at shaping the sound in a way it would be quite difficult using a standard MB comp. I tend to use MB comp for balancing chunks of the frequency spectrum with each other or sounds within a single band if it's a wide section that needs it, dynamic EQ I use more if there's something very specific like a resonant frequency that only happens at a specific part of a note or something that needs very fine gain reduction but not all the time, as opposed to broader spectrum gain reduction. However they are essentially pretty similar processes, and for the most part you could probably do the same thing as a dynamic EQ (or something very similar at least), with an EQ and a MB compressor (providing you had enough MB comp bands). It's more an ease of use thing than a totally different processing form. Although I think there are some subtle differences, for all intents and purposes they are essentially a fancy MB compressor mixed with a Parametric EQ with customizable filters for the MB instead of just flat topped band pass filters (I'm sure some just use many overlapping standard BP filters though, it really depends on how the plug in was programmed tbf).
@doggydolittle1698
Жыл бұрын
can soothe 2 be used to achieve this effect as well ?
@Dhkobe2
Жыл бұрын
I’m noticing Studio one being highly popular can you possibly start a few vids in diff DAWS???
@ColtCapperrune
Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, I only use ProTools with no plans of switching. However, every tutorial I make focuses on the mindset, and the principle. Both of which will work in any workstation you use. Hope that helps!
@camdonhill
Жыл бұрын
@@ColtCapperrune how can we convert you to Studio One bröther??? 😂
@Dhkobe2
Жыл бұрын
@@camdonhill lol 😂 🙏🏾👌
@Ikas031
Жыл бұрын
Joe Gilder has some very good S1 tutorials.
@tungochuy
Жыл бұрын
I'm using ABLETON and I have no issue or whatsoever understanding what he explains
@Naindurth
Жыл бұрын
Nice tips, but I got distracted when I started to hear some resonance with your voice, Colt, like it's bouncing of the desk? I think of a wooden box reflecting your voice ha ha
@JungEgo
9 ай бұрын
😂I can't English
@tallmccartneymusic
Жыл бұрын
I’m not tryna be rude but isn’t this a little overkill? I feel like parallel compression accomplishes the same task. Sometimes less is more, it’s ok for the vocal to be dynamic. Music is getting and has been so robotic for a long time now and it bums me out.. This trick is better suited for something like bass guitar imho.
@GrisibagageSnnaa-qz6zw
Жыл бұрын
Crap
@vladpetrovsky8674
3 ай бұрын
Multiband for vocals??? Don't you hear what he's doing with the phase??? So read the manufacturer's manual before making such fantasies!!! Does reverb help you equalize????)))
@rayang9929
10 ай бұрын
DUDE IM LIKE AT MY 6TH MIX DOING THIS AND I CANT EVEN EXPLAIN HOW MUCH THIS HELPS, THANK YOU FOR THIS KNOWLEDGE SO MUCH!
@strayingwill
Жыл бұрын
Damn, Colt, I’ve learnt so much more through your videos than all the time I spent in college. Ok, I didn’t go to college for audio, but I’m still learning so much. 😂
@mon3777
Жыл бұрын
Hey, at around 3:16 I noticed you could have just selected all four of the bands by dragging over it and adjust all of them at once since you were doing the same edits on all of them. Just a quick tip, hope this might be new to at least some of you (: As always, great video, great concept, keep it coming, I love it ! ❤
@68Snaps
Жыл бұрын
Nice catch! But then, let's go one step further, and after the inital setup is done, why not save as a preset?
@Anamoly_
Жыл бұрын
Come on, show us the vocals in context.
@presidentialbeats
8 ай бұрын
Damn bro, your vocals already sound better even before processing. Are there any other tricks? My recorded vocals sound harsh af even after sound proofing
@FredStarsVideos
14 күн бұрын
Hey bro!! This was a great explanation , with a target in mind. this is what sets u apart from a joe smoe.. Respect.
@JayVucci
8 ай бұрын
I like your videos! However, I have noticed your voice is difficult to listen to for long. Not sure if it's the professing or mic. I never noticed this before (over last 5 years) because I would watch a couple of minutes and do something else. Happy new year!
@envisiotube
Жыл бұрын
I love your videos, they are inspring and so well done, 100% focused with no blabla (except for the advertising stuff, but o.k. this is business). But what really pisses me off is your lowsy resonant voice over audio quality. Please solve this, you could use a headset or lavalier or do more acoustic treatment in your room. You know all this already ...
@HaHaDK
9 ай бұрын
where is the link, yo ? 1:33 I see links to a lot of plugins that aren't used in this video.. but the link you promised, isn't here :(
@golden02122
Жыл бұрын
Bro your the GOAT I wish you didn't use your outside gear and show us how to Make mix like you all in the daw and if you really wanted to show the masses the smoke do it with stock plugins but sure just fabfilter kool I see you use that alot so GRAND Master sound Engineer will you try???
@pedroboschibrasil
Ай бұрын
Amazing video! Much easier to see this. Thank you
@ScottRandall31
Жыл бұрын
This is solid gold!
@lukaspersson447
7 ай бұрын
Multiband "Making vocals sound everything but naturally dynamic so you get that shitty sound that made everyone not listen to the radio"
@MySecretSpotrecording
Жыл бұрын
Question?? why put the hook on the same track as the verse?? Why would they even be in the verse group?? Hook Buss... Verse Buss? this way you can really focus in on those sections? Ton of tracks in these daw systems? So???
@riffmaster5805
Жыл бұрын
4:32...just use raw vocal while doing this .. Remove the hall reverb .. So we can figure out what are those bad frequencies 😊
@TearFuel
Жыл бұрын
Awesome video man! QUESTION: Would Soothe 2 be a replacement for this process? Cheers!
@timmb7352
Жыл бұрын
it's crazy that I was just having the same problem, this just solved it. Thanks Colt!
@MusicChannel-rf5zz
5 ай бұрын
Thanks Should I use pro q3 after or before this?
@MrKametyou
2 ай бұрын
0% attack/release has no problem ?
@JamesDeeds-e5y
Ай бұрын
Why did I start clapping at the end
@officialcisko
Жыл бұрын
Great explanation and definitely learned something useful. Thank you for the great content.
@Faraday100
10 ай бұрын
One of your best. Clear explanations of what you are trying accomplish and why what you do works for accomplish that.
@waves7300
8 ай бұрын
What converters do you use?
@hadkmusic
Жыл бұрын
Why u put your sub at the corner
@TrevonJamar
Жыл бұрын
Great video, tried to use the affiliate link for Fab filter.. you forgot to add the "" in case anyone else is wondering why the link won't work thanks again !!
@ColtCapperrune
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for pointing that out! I’ll get it fixed right now
@BVKER
Жыл бұрын
Select all bands, so you only need to drag the attack etc. down once next time :)
@kingzluvinproduction
9 ай бұрын
Wow
@prodbyevy
4 ай бұрын
FREAKING GOATED
@BeatSlangerSBAD
8 ай бұрын
Thank you, I've watched a lot of vids and this one finally got the point off multiband across
@SacredOm369
Жыл бұрын
What bothers me about these tutorials is that when you play me the bypassed version, it already sounds great. I want to see the raw input from the mic get mixed with these plugins and hear what that sounds like. Plus, a lot of studios use like a $200,000 microphone and pre-amp setup. We normies are trying to make up for average gear with plugins and mixing.
@DaftFader
Жыл бұрын
Many good records have been made with a sure sm58 (around 150 bucks) and most affordable preamps these days are SUPER clean and dead flat (unless they intend it to be a colored preamp), and with 24bit of headroom. MB compressors work the same no matter what you put through them, however if you've got a bad recording (bad room/performance/noisy un-grounded equipment/clipping audio because of a lack of compression at the source of the recording/computer fans in the background whilst recording/ or bad level setting, or what ever it is causing that recording to not be good), then it'll for the most part stay a bad or sub par recording, it's just how things are. The MB compressor will still level the bass and help duck sibilant peaks just the same. If there are already a TON more sibilant peaks in the source material, then you'll either have to push it more, or live with the fact that you've reached the limits of the MB compressor with that particular source material, and try some other restoration techniques earlier on to remove as much of the sibilant sound as you can at the start of the chain. If this is the case though, your best result is going back to the recording if you can. Some singers don't know how to control sibilance in their performance (or sing into a mic properly at all tbh), and if you can't coach them to not do what ever it is they are doing that they shouldn't be (breathing into the mic, standing too far or too close, not singing loud enough etc etc), or can't pick a mic more suited to their voice (using a mic that boosts the high end when someone sings with a lot of sibilance will impart that boosted sibilance into the track forever), or if u can't re-record for what ever reason, it's never going to get better or even to the same level of quality than a really well preformed and recorded audio track that's still dry. That's just how audio recording works. I bet if you listened to the recording of this vocal in the video dry, it'd blow you away on it's own, you can't really make up for a well preformed and well recorded track later on, so it's very important to get the recording right in the beginning or you'll just be playing catch up the whole time and never getting it to where you want. There's a reason all the top mixing engineers pick the projects they work on carefully. Something messed up in recording makes them look bad, even though it's nothing to do with them.
@scartierr
10 ай бұрын
@@DaftFaderproblem with this is that you basicly cant get that "raw" youre lookin for with these studios these songs have been recorded at. You just need to understand the fundamentals of the plugins so you can use it to your own things. You cannot copy 1:1 these settings, you gotta figure em out yourself
@FerdiResmi
Жыл бұрын
Can u give preset pls
@aaronhedgesmusic
Жыл бұрын
I love your videos. I make techno and house music here in berlin but the quality of engineering in your videos beats out 95% of other music production videos on KZitem ❤ keep up the good work!!
@AlexeySolovievMusic
Жыл бұрын
Amazing video! Very well explained and showed! Thank you super duper much Colt!
@skirize
Жыл бұрын
Great Video!!! Funny thing is, I just clocked why your limiting before compression (I think) is to control the hard transients? Giving you more freedom to open up your attack and shorten your release on the comp without it sounding too harsh?
@DaftFader
Жыл бұрын
I would imagine so in part yeah, to stop the transient peaks from making the compressors earlier in the chain work too hard whilst only taking off peaks for the first however many DB of compression (basically gives more headroom for him to compress with), as well as sharp transients sneaking past the attack of the slower compressors, but also to not trigger this MB comp too hard and be able to speed up the attack/rel without getting into distortion territory so fast I assume (if there happens to be any big transients left, which if he's using a med/slow attack with earlier compression there very well may still be with out the limiting, infact even more so with the compression but without the limiting than if he went straight into the pro mb without any compression or limiting at all)!
@scartierr
10 ай бұрын
so good video
@OriginalRaveParty
Жыл бұрын
That's some sauce. Crazy 😊
@JouriyPavlov
Жыл бұрын
Gread
@lennix_music
2 ай бұрын
Best vocal multiband compression video ! Thank you so much
@musicbyjon5447
Жыл бұрын
Stellar video on multiband compression!
@charlyanthony9594
Жыл бұрын
👏🏼🔥💪🏼
@darthvader5701
Жыл бұрын
soothe?
@ssserotonin1373
Жыл бұрын
wow
@NickLAnderson
9 ай бұрын
🙏🏼
@vsing3899
Жыл бұрын
🔥🔥🔥
@jadedsean
Жыл бұрын
Hey Colt, do you use this in conjunction with outboard compressors? Great vid man.
@DaftFader
Жыл бұрын
Yeah he lists his analog chain in the video, this goes before the Pro MB the way he works.
@RetroDivergentes
Жыл бұрын
don't you think that having 3 different plugins for de-essing in that track makes the voice dull?
@ColtCapperrune
Жыл бұрын
Does it sound dull to you? Because that’s the only thing that matters. I could have 10 DeEssers on it, and it might sound fine. Or a single instance of it might be too much. The only thing that matters is what it sounds like, and what you were trying to make it sound like. Hope that helps!
@RetroDivergentes
Жыл бұрын
@@ColtCapperrune thanks!!!
@ST-fl5fy
Жыл бұрын
@@ColtCapperrune do you apply LB after most tracks apart from vocals (bass, guitar etc) does this limit the DR of a mix ? Thanks
@Crowbar11115
Жыл бұрын
Another Multiband/Dynamic EQ trick is to set very Narrow Qs to grab harsh frequencies. 900, 5000, 7000, 9000 and 11000 Hz sound horrible. If you set up Pro-MB/Pro-Q to smooth those frequencies from the jump you can tackle Ear Fatigue very early on in your Mix. This applies to Spoken Word as well not just Music.
@daveycmusic5150
Жыл бұрын
Lots if good info. But it just seems line there is SOOOOOO much stuff on this channel. How much if this (if any, i really dont know) can be fixed by better micing and performance techniques?
@sbanville4761
11 ай бұрын
This is great Colt, Thank you for sharing!
@jxrx4577
Жыл бұрын
Why wouldn’t you just split the tracks and treat the chorus and verse differently. A little eq and compression on each track would be so much easier. Any reasons for this?
@Rck-vert
Жыл бұрын
Doing that requires more cpu, actually just add one eq, comp etc. and then automate the different parameters
@jxrx4577
Жыл бұрын
@@Rck-vert mmmm I dunno. Automation vs an extra track? It’s way way way easier. And, since it’s not playing at the same time, it won’t take more resources. Plus, it’s 2023 - processing for Captain Capernic isn’t a problem
@jxrx4577
Жыл бұрын
@@Rck-vert derp derp. Ok buddy
@konzaoficial
Жыл бұрын
how about those focal headphones for mixing and mastering
@СергейРостов-я7ю
Жыл бұрын
Проехал по ушам
@Kenji_Trupa
3 ай бұрын
Watching your titorials my mixing level sky rocketed😊
@nicholasriley4729
Жыл бұрын
Never would’ve thought to use a pro L2 w/ fast attack on a vocal! So cool!
@musicproductionbrauns2594
Жыл бұрын
i get the point and it can be very useful but i also think it takes away the tonal dynamics (kinda obvisouly) and so it sound more artifical, really has to fit to the mix and should not be used just because
@patrickperinger1383
Жыл бұрын
Great video! One note: timbre is pronounced “tamber” when used in music. Not trying to be a bit picky jerk, your videos are awesome!
@roxnroll8050
Жыл бұрын
Wow, is this the new standard for vox? It’s like the Andy Sneap method for gtr mutes. Noice! Glad I subscribed and was alerted to this sick tip!
@mikeb1824
7 ай бұрын
Niiiiice! I have this plugin and was not using it… I will definitely be implementing this in my mix
@davidbeauchamp2161
10 ай бұрын
That's really amazingly informative. I feel like I understand multiband compressors for the first time.
@GeorgeAmodei21
Жыл бұрын
Wow!... I own 3 MB Comp. but never use them ( don't ask...lol) but can't wait to start getting good at using it. ( You explained it very well ) Thank you Colt! George :)
@SnapiTT
Жыл бұрын
Awesome dude, listening to your words while taking notes and can‘t wait to try out the learnings to my current project. I started to rec&mix without any knowledge and spendt nights to improve. Mixing a new live performance project for a band called Waykoba, who you find on spotify, and really want to take things more then a level up for next release. Guess I will spend the rest of the night watching more stuff on your channel. Keep on doing! I would love to learn how you deal with reverbs in mixes. „Real Roominess“ vs. „Artifical tail extension“ is such a challenge, I‘m facing right now.
@sparecordingstudios3145
Жыл бұрын
Hhmm... nice vocal. So which mic did you use for this vocal?
@brianwynn10
Жыл бұрын
this the best mb explanation I ever seen and I watch every video on KZitem now I know what to do thanks
@MarkyGoldstein
Жыл бұрын
I'd suggest to start with the audio example and comparison first, and I also suggest to focus the balance of the 2nd goal of contrast in music as well
@satch72
Жыл бұрын
This is gold
@ZiggyVision
Жыл бұрын
That was probably the best explanation so far on how to use the plug sensibly. Short and concise but very understandable. thanks for that
@garyleister
Жыл бұрын
Thanks you. You explain very well
@natedavid3873
Жыл бұрын
can you do this with soothe 2 or do i need pro mb?
@StanleyPat1968
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for sharing your professional knowledge! Great video
@podespault
Жыл бұрын
Great tips! Especially the part about bumping the level on the lows. Really makes it sound more consistent and plainly better :)
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