How to EQ vocals

The singer still tends to be the most important element of a modern pop song, sorry bass players.

Anyone who's ever mixed a record will know how difficult it can be to get a great sounding vocal when it’s surrounded by 50 other tracks in the mix.

In this tutorial Fab Dupont gives you all the principles of EQing vocals. He explains his techniques and gives you 3 fascinating examples of how to get pro sounding vocals.

He’ll show you how to:

• Make precise and gentle moves with EQ
• Remove whollyness and extra fat
• Fix resonances, notching out offensive frequencies
• Dial in a neutral sound on both male and female vocal sounds
• Balance functionality and feeling while EQing

The downloadable exercise files contain the instrumental tracks and the vocal tracks Fab used in this video, download them and EQ them yourself.