So many of you asked me how I process my vocals for my Hungry Heart's song and you
were amazed at how I got similar results from different mics of course some mics
are better than others but a little processing helped everything
today I'm going to show you how I process my vocals for that song the
exact plugins I use and I'm gonna show you how you can get similar results
using some cheaper alternatives or even your stock plugins for today's vocal
recording I'm using a mic by Austrian audio it's the OC 18 Mike you're gonna
have a chance to win this mic and I'm giving away two $50.00 sweetwater gift
cards as well three prizes to enter to win leave a comment in this video and
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I'm Sanjay see I have tons of videos on my channel about music production and
latest music gear consider subscribing if you haven't already I always get
straight to the point in my reviews and videos so let's talk about Austrian
audio the company was set up by a number of former employees of AKG the OSI 18
has a capsule that's inspired by the same qualities of the classic AKG c41
for the Austrian Audio OC 18 is a condenser microphone with cardioid
pattern and that awesome handmade ckr 12 ceramic capsule it has a negative 10
decibel and negative 20 decibel pad settings and a three-position switchable
high-pass filter built in it's excellent for vocals you'll hear that in a sec
acoustic guitar piano whatever he comes in this awesome case with a mount a mic
clip and a windscreen it's $700 retail but you have a chance to win it alright
let's get into how I processed my vocals I'm going to show you exactly what I
used when I recorded the song for that previous video but since I used UAD
plugins which aren't available to everyone I'm also going to show you two
alternatives using waves plugins which are much cheaper and then I'll show you
how I used stock plugins the ones that came with my DAW so no extra money spent
let's listen to the final version with the universal audio plugins the way I
had it in that previous video get some bubble jack
I just kept going
but
okay so my UID plug-in chain first of course I have Auto Tune and you'll see
my settings here I just keep the default settings but change the retune speed to
37 for this song somewhere between 37 32 is pretty decent
I have ie Q and I did a low-cut and a little bit of a high cut to adjust the
brightness a bit I have the universal audio la-2a and this is just doing some
gentle compression next up I'm using the 1176 plugin by universal audio i'll show
you how to set up the 1176 the way I did so you add the 1176 in there and then
you right click it click on group then you click the button in the middle that
shows you the chain list once you have the chain list add a another chain so I
just right click and click create chain so now I've got the original vocal with
no effect on it and the one going through the 1176 and I can mix the two
this is kind of similar to sending this to a return track in Ableton but now I
have it just for this one plug-in so from here I can adjust it accordingly
and you'll see that's what I did right here so I have the drive vocal here and
I have the 1176 here and you can see my settings for the 1176 now without the
1176 let me let you hear what the vocals sound like now with the 1176 added in
now let's add the next plug-in which is the waves de-esser I don't have a
de-esser from Universal Audio so I use the waves yessir the next plug-in I use
is the Universal Audio SPL twin-tube processor this adds some saturation and
harmonics to it you hear it really make a big difference
as soon as I turn it on a matter in Kingston bar without it a backup matter
in Kingston bar the last thing I had it was the soundToys plug-in echoboy jr. to
give a slap delay in Kingston bar
alright let's try it again with some cheaper alternatives to you ad plugins
I'm going to use waves and sound toys and some stock plugins you can usually
get these plugins at decent discounts I'll try it again with stock plugins in
just a sec so now we're listening to the waves recording with all the processing
in there
without the music a matter in Kingston bar let's compare that with the UAD a
matter in Kingston bar right back to waves here's how I processed my vocals
started again with auto-tune same setting and pretty much the same EQ
setting as well the next plug-in I use is our Vox and I absolutely love this
compressor by waves if you buy one waves compressor by our Vox so this is doing
some gentle compression in there and then as soon as I add in the 1176 by
waves now this 1176 is using the same settings
that I used with the Universal Audio so you can kind of compare the two so
remember with the Universal Audio I used the la-2a and then the 1176 on
top of that with waves I'm using our Vox and the 1176 a matter in Kingston bar
they love a new it had to end now of course the volume got louder so it is
sounding more forward already but also listen to it in the mix without any of
the other effects on it and already is going to be cutting through
so just those two compressors make such a huge difference without the
compressors in there you hear the volume of my voice going in and out a lot next
up I added the waves Renaissance de-esser as well same as I did on the
last version I add a little bit of EQ to bring back some of the high-end a little
bit then I add a little radiator by soundtoys this is kind of doing
something similar to the SPL twin tube processor by Universal Audio so it's
having some harmonics a matter in Kingston bar then last I add delay and
this is using waves H delay to just get the same type of slapback delay so the
full waves vocal chain is our vox CLA 76 renaissance de-esser little radiator and
h delay alright let's try those same vocals with the plugins included with
Ableton Live if using another da you can just match these with your DAWs stock
plugins followed kind of the same structure of the vocal chain as I did
with the other two
can't stop
let's compare that with waves
Kingston
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Kingstown
all right so back to Ableton let's go through the plugins that I added here
started with auto-tune then EQ kind of similar to the other two then I just
used the stock compressor and there was actually this compressor setting called
mix gel let's add the parallel compression just like I did with the the
waves and the UAD versions and I'm using the preset brute compression next I try
to mimic the saturation that I got with those other plugins by uid in waves
while you ad and soundToys and I use a hot tubes preset it's just a little bit
of Drive and then I use the stock delay to give that slapback delay as well so
here's the final version a matter in Kingston bar let's compare that with
waves a manner in Kingston bar and uid a matter in Kingston bar let's hear what
the ableton stock plugins sound like in the mix
so there you go three options to process your vocals thanks for watching and
thanks to Sweetwater and Austrian audio for doing the giveaway with me keep
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