A Beginner's Guide to Mixing Metal at Home - Episode 4 part 1 (Vocals)

I have split the vocals tutorial into 2 distinct areas. Part 1 is covering the vocalist's pronunciation and technique, mic position, and doubling up on takes. I highly recommend this episode to give beginners a good grounding in the first half of the process and some of the finer points of recording vocals, but if you are only interesting in EQ/compression etc and plugins then please skip straight to Part 2.
Highly recommended for those of you with some experience, this guy really knows what he's talking about and has the best videos I've found on youtube on this subject:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ExtremeVocalsStudio

Welcome to my new series on mixing heavy metal using your DAW or home computer. When I was looking online for a lot of this information I often came across a very unhelpful answer to reasonable questions -
Q: "how should I eq my kick?"
A: "There's no set template for EQ you fool, every project is different.

Whilst these 'experts' are fundamentally correct, it doesn't help the person who has no idea where to begin. My settings and my methods won't work for everyone, but at least if you have an understanding of how I go about things then it will help you to find a good starting point for your own stuff.

Episode 1: Drums
Episode 2: Bass
Episode 3: Guitars (2 parts)
Episode 4: Vocals (2 parts)

I own all rights to the music used in this series.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• heavy metal
• metal
• home recording
• cubase
• mixing guitars
• mixing metal
• mixing bass
• how to record heavy metal
• recording drums
• compressing audio tracks
• mixing and EQ for metal
• DAW
• using VST
• Guitar Cabinet Impulses
• Mixing vocals
• Multi-band compressing
• Multiband Compressors
• EQ vocals
• Recording
• Software Tutorial
• Band

[WayneWiblin]

Hey man. Iv really enjoyed this video series. I only started recording by myself at home about two months ago so Im fairly new at this but I will admit Iv learnt allot in a short time.. But Iv used your video series as a guide line because what Iv discovered is allot is up to experimenting to develop a style of recording. When I upload a track I'll send you a link for sure. Thanx again for the vids.

[Jamesmsv]

@WayneWiblin Yep, there's no substitute for just putting in the hours learning how things work and most importantly learning what your ears are telling you.

[mike90t09]

This whole series is wonderful, I do want to thank you for these. I take audio production in college and these are definitely giving me the edge.

[Jamesmsv]

@mike90t09 thanks for the feedback, more to come once I get my new PC fixed.....

[AceFire117]

Actually, about the plosives i would recommend to tighten and do short bursts of breath when doing Peuh, Deuh...etc. This helps you save energy, breath and gain a lot more pronounciation. Therefore doing much better takes and saving some processing and time ! Zen of Screaming everybody :)

Tight and powerful voice you have there btw ;)

[Jamesmsv]

@AceFire117 Thanks dude - I'm afraid I don't sound that great unless I have about 10 takes! As for the plosives, I'll give that a go, I seem to be quite bad with them when I sing and the less editing later on the better, it's a pain in the ass!

[MrAngelspit]

Awesome!! this gets me up and running with me vocals...thanks James!:)

[Jamesmsv]

Thanks for the comment dude, I appreciate it. Glad you liked it!