Compressing & Mixing Lead Vocal Tips in Logic Pro

http://musicproductioncourses.net/ Dave Garnish from Garnish School of Sound explains on the time Youtube allows, how audio compression works and what basic settings he used on JK from Bright Star Catalogue's female lead vocal.

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Howto & Style

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• Compressing lead vocals
• compression tips
• how to compress vocals
• using a compressor
• mixing vocals
• mixing lead vocals

[abecerra71]

Vocal mixing was a big problem for me. I never could get that professional studio sound. this was really helpful. thanks.

[garnishschoolofsound]

@abecerra71 Great!

[FreestyleLilWayne]

damn you knoe your shit man ;) thanks.

[garnishschoolofsound]

@FreestyleLilWayne Thanks!

[AspireMProductions]

great video, thanks!!

[garnishschoolofsound]

@AspireMProductions My pleasure!

[garnishschoolofsound]

@THEAMAZINGVIDEO No one can recommend EQ settings for anything because everything is recorded differently. It annoys me when you see eq settings in presets. For compression, I would use a low ratio (say 2ish) with a lot of threshold to reduce the dynamic range of the whole signal and then another compressor AFTER with more ratio (around 6) to really deal with those peaks. Set the threshold on that compressor so it's reducing the gain by about 2 - 5dd.THESE ARE ROUGH GUIDELINES. All vocals differ

[glict]

Great tutorial. I think if you would have done something more vocally driven it would have been more of an obvious change

[divolino]

Great video, thanks for the enlightment. But i only have Logic express, Can it be done also in logic express too. Thanks in advance for your help.

[Zepoch1]

Jesus why would anyone need that many tracks?

[seansmithsounds]

This is wonderful. I'm finishing up my second album and have (not a brag) put untold amounts of money into making everything as profesional as possible. I've done everything in my own studio to make sure that I get the sound that I want, and I'm in the mastering process. I'm very interesting in learning about the mastering and finalizing of a track in logic pro, and would love to take a course or class in it if you have something thats focused on just the final bits of production in Logic.

[soupy216]

presets are merely guidelines there is no exact way!!!

[mickbrit55]

@garnishschoolofsound : Your graphics are ok but seriously, you shouldnt really be trying to talk over the audio track while you are making adjustments. Can't hear the adjustment from the compressor or what you are saying.

[MrDirtyb87]

@glict if people aren't hearing the changes, they probably should't be producing

[MrDirtyb87]

How can i take your vocal courses?



[Flamesoom]

thanks for everything!

[deidara1fan5]

@mrtylerlarson In practice it is better to put dynamic effects (compression, EQ, Gates etc.) on the insert strip and multi effects (reverb, delay, phaser etc.) on a bus This being because dynamic effects will directly change the audio/midi signal completely they are not adding an effect they are physically changing the waveform whereas multi effects are only adding more signal to the original which is why you have a we/dry mix.