 yo what's up dudes so today what we're gonna be doing is going over my vocal chain so let's check it out so when when every time I start a session I will go to my templates I've created a template for this okay so when I click vocal template it's all gonna pop up right so let's do that first and then I will show you some vocals running through it so vocal template and and what this is gonna do is it's gonna give me my main vocal right here with all of the plugins that need to be on there and then it's already gonna have all of my buses on there so I got the vocal bus routing to this the reverb bus routing to this another reverb a delay bus a wide meaning a course and then parallel compression okay so in my main vocal these are the plugins that I use I have NLS channel stereo okay don't ask me what it does it basically just gives you like a little bit of saturation okay and it's like when when I link this right here to this NLS bus over here it gives the vocal more saturation all right so that's the always the first plug-in on the main vocal and on the bus vocal the vocal bus all right my second plug-in is my tune all right I always keep my tune on the preset of light tuning and then I change the key depending on what be all right so if I'm cooking up a beat in G minor then I'll change my key to G minor all right these two plugins are not turned on so don't pay attention to those the next plug-in I do is an EQ and as you can see this is subtractive EQ okay I wrote out these low frequencies I wrote out these low frequencies over here okay I pulled out some of these frequencies right here in the 340 some of these problem frequencies I pulled out a little bit more in the in the 500s okay and and then over here I pulled out some in the 30 30 30 33 3400s okay next we got a DSer this right here is also corrective EQ the frequency that I'm attacking is 42 37 that's where you get a lot of the a lot of the S frequencies so I throw a DSer on here and I attack some of them frequencies the next the next plug-in that I throw on here is a EQ to to boost some of the good frequencies that I like okay I I do remove a little bit more of the low frequencies you can see right here I'm removing nine decibels at this like three three fifty area low mid frequencies I'm removing three decibels at this point eight nine area I'm removing a little bit more of these problem frequencies with the DSes and then you can see I boost right here I boost a four point five decibels right here in this a thousand area and then the next we got the CL 76 compressor the bluey revision you guys can see my settings hmm we have a fast attack and a slow release then I have a R box some more compression and then we have the R compressor some even more compression all right so let me load up a track so you can see what it sounds like running through that compressor okay let's check out padded room what I'll do is I will play the vocal track just one solo vocal track I will play that without the busses and then we'll start to bring in each one of the bus tracks so you can hear what they do okay so as you can see there's a bunch of different vocal tracks right these are all my different layers but after I set the tune and record on this track I'll just duplicate it and then I use the same settings for every track for my rough mix of course like as you get into your actual mix you are going to have to tweak tracks depending on background vocals and things like that but as far as like a rough demo mix it's really all I do okay so here is the vocal I'm gonna turn it up a little bit because I have my vocals dubbed so it's like when you double your vocal you got to turn the volume down on each one okay so but I'm just gonna play a solo vocal for you guys so you can get an idea of how it sounds okay so this is with no bus on there let me turn off all the effects and as I bring each bus track on there I will tell you guys what effect is on there okay so here's the vocal by self so that is the one vocal with just my vocal chain no bus channels so the first bus I'm going to introduce is the vocal bus and the effects on there are the NL bus that gives it saturation we got some more compression we got the Saturn plug-in that gives it some saturation we got the Q10 boost in some of these really high frequencies we got some more de-esser and then we got some more compression okay so like this compression on the end right here is optional all right so this is before the vocal bus who really cannot run so well really cannot feel this is after life feel like a padded room swim feeling so insane haircuts non-detained lost it all every dead thing I was so you can just instantly hear how much more presence you get by running it through the vocal bus running the signal through the vocal bus and giving it some some saturation some more compression some more EQ so the next one I'm going to show you is the reverb okay so on my reverb I just throw like a fab filter vocal gloss on there and after my reverb I EQ all right I cut some of these low frequencies and I cut some of the high so it's only giving me the reverb on the frequencies that I want okay so this is without and then I'll introduce it so my first reverb is a short reverb the second reverb is a long reverb okay so I will introduce both of them as a place who really cannot run to well really cannot feel safe whole life feel like a padded room swim feeling so insane haircuts non-detained lost it all every dead thing it's very subtle but as you can adjust you can adjust how much of the track you want to send to the bus channel so right now I'm sending negative 10 decibels to reverb one and I'm sending negative 12 decibels to reverb two so that determines how much I want to send but then I can even raise the volume on the reverb effect over here and it gives me even more control so listen who really cannot run to well really cannot feel safe whole life feel like a padded room swim feeling so insane haircuts non-detained lost it all every dead thing I was up in my pocket sweat like I'm running around in the damn rain okay so the next effect that I have is a H delay a 1 30 second and this is what it sounds like who really cannot run to well really cannot feel safe whole life feel like a padded room swim feeling so insane haircuts non-detained lost it all every dead the next is a delay to this is a little bit of a longer delay this is a one bar delay who really cannot run to well really cannot feel safe whole life feel like a padded room swim feeling so insane haircuts non-detained lost it all every dead thing I was up in my pocket sweat like I'm running around in the damn red who really cannot run to well really cannot feel safe whole life feel like a padded room swim feeling so insane hair all right so I'm not gonna show you that one right now normally when I do that I will automate it so delay three this is automated so I'm not gonna show you that right now because that's for a whole other video so the next one I'll show you is the course effect who really cannot run to well really cannot feel safe whole life feel like a padded room swim feeling so insane haircuts non-detained lost it all every and then the last bus is parallel compression so this is our box and a little bit of driver so a little bit of distortion so listen to without it and then I'll start to introduce it all right who really cannot run to well really cannot feel safe whole life feel like a padded room swim feeling so insane haircuts non-detained lost it all every dead thing I was up in my pocket sweat like I'm running around in the damn rain how I go from feeling so high to feeling so low in such a short time late nights I was on the ground and then when you combine all the effects all the bus tracks is like you just get a much stronger vocal so let's listen to with the music who really cannot run to well really cannot feel safe whole life feel like a padded room swim feeling so insane haircuts non-detained lost it all every dead thing I was up in my pocket sweat like I'm running around in the damn rain how I go from feeling so high to feeling so low in such a short time late nights I was on the grind this husband shit is just a waste so I muted my dub so this is just one single track okay who really cannot run to well really cannot feel safe whole life feel like a padded room swim feeling so insane haircuts y'all hear that little delay when when I just unmuted delay three I have it automated to where it only comes in in the spots where I stop rapping so check it out who really cannot run to well really cannot feel safe whole life feel like a padded room swim feeling so insane haircuts non-detained lost it all every dead thing I was up in my pocket sweat like I'm running around in rain I will show you guys how I automate those delays in the next video thank y'all so much for rocking hit the like button share subscribe whatever