as you are is a very vocal heavy song i had daniel johns from silver chair sing on a lot of uh this
record there's a lot of deep clustered harmony work so it's really important that when you're
mixing or you know producing the vocals that you leave space for everything listening back to this
song a lot of it was mixed quite dry there's not a ton of effects on things but i thought
it'd be an interesting experiment to show you how i might work with a session with a lot of vocals
and how i might reinterpret um the production of the vocals to hear the song in a new way
take a picture so that's how it sounds right now but if i wanted
to make that even wider and more expressive i might zoom in on this uh stack of vocals
and shine them up a bit so let's see what happens when we put micro shift on
so if i'm going to do that to this stack then i want to make sure that in the other
vocals i leave room for some of the lower end frequencies
so i want this to be really warm and perhaps the lx 480.
i don't want things to get muddy so i'm going to take a bit of the bottom end out there
so this is a good example of where i could really make a intentional effect out of this one voice
so i'm going to try and really spin that out with
devil lock deluxe and just create a moment of violence that emerges out of the song
now it's almost like a guitar is coming in or something and
i love being able to affect the voice in that way
so that's like our lead so make that the front focus and make sure it's loud enough come as
you come as you i really like that
i want to get a bit more bass in here a bit more
so i'm going to maybe even pitch him down even further and see what that does
no that doesn't work so try a different method
come on
so it's actually kind of cool in the context
another thing that's really fun to do is play with automation to just swell things
up rather than them being a full push at once maybe they rise up in a crescendo
and this can all dramatically change the ebb and flow of how the chorus breathes
you
let me take a picture
yeah so that might be a moment where i want to actually really make that a statement and
i would duplicate it onto another track and just take that one part which i think is so beautiful
move it down make this a little quieter and then really spin this out and reverb make it fully wet
i just want to feel like we're swimming in vocals so i'm just trying to create
a sense of being immersed completely immersed in this world and if we turn
off all the effects you can hear the difference um it's subtle but
versus
take a picture
and again you don't have to do all these things but these are just the
small little differences that take a song from being good to great you