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.
Plugins Used:
Sonnox Oxford EQ
Avid EQ3 7-Band
Waves Q6
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74 reviews
asenginear •Thursday, August 3, 2023
Awesome! I've learnt a lot from this for my project (Sound Engineer class).
Top tier!
Syn420 •Thursday, June 29, 2023
I love to hear the comparison between the flat track and the enhanced one. One thing he said that I kinda started doing when I was still in school for AE was to close your eyes. I feel like when you are looking at the screen, just as Fab stated, it can fool you. Just like the times you were messing with the EQ when it was bypassed the whole time. Everytime I listen now, my eyes are closed and I can hear everything that much better. Thanks for the awesome tutorial on vocals!
Jbarton_3 •Thursday, September 22, 2022
Exactly what I needed! To the point and clearly explained/demonstrated!
TonyW •Thursday, September 1, 2022
My bad. The exercise file link is ok. Just needed to login again.
Luka Panik •Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Glad he's not a stand up comedian. Good video.
murray.g •Sunday, April 4, 2021
Fantastic Video. I'm learning how to listen.
billabong859 •Saturday, February 27, 2021
Great tutorial and, as always, excellent extensive A/B comparisons. The power of subtle notches!
uachmusica •Saturday, December 19, 2020
This is the best Vocal Mix video i've seen, ever!
Jamesbtex •Saturday, November 21, 2020
You should have the ability to download this video. Currently there is no way to download the video.
Adis Cengic •Thursday, August 27, 2020
We need more deeper course on different type of vocal like male rap/trap vocal.
LuvSum Music •Thursday, August 20, 2020
Another well-explained and informative video. Thanks!
dannzy1 •Wednesday, July 1, 2020
so simple but effective, my first lesson and I'm glad i found it. top man
