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Adding more color and atmosphere to vocals?
« on: January 07, 2016, 08:52:21 pm »
im remixing a song (Mura Masa - Your Bones) and its my first time working with vocals that arent COMPLETELY chopped up. Problem with the vocals is that they are lacking in every aspect (Listen to the first set of lyrics in the song since that is what im using) and im basically trying to give it more atmosphere and color and emphasis. I would normally add reverb and do some stereo widening but thats not really doing it for me. if anybody has some tips or methods pls share thank u. trying to release a song for once and im hoping i could start with this

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Re: Adding more color and atmosphere to vocals?
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2016, 09:01:33 pm »
Try Eq to cut some lows. Throw a phaser and/or chorus. Slight delay like one that doesn't have a lot of feedback. Or reverb again very short and mess a little with the pre-delay. THEN!!!! Compress that to color it up and make it a bit more interesting. After all that add another reverb to make it super big.


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Re: Adding more color and atmosphere to vocals?
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2016, 09:27:28 pm »
im remixing a song (Mura Masa - Your Bones) and its my first time working with vocals that arent COMPLETELY chopped up. Problem with the vocals is that they are lacking in every aspect (Listen to the first set of lyrics in the song since that is what im using) and im basically trying to give it more atmosphere and color and emphasis. I would normally add reverb and do some stereo widening but thats not really doing it for me. if anybody has some tips or methods pls share thank u. trying to release a song for once and im hoping i could start with this

Convolution reverb is really great for this kind of stuff. Put a convolution reverb on a return track, and drop a sample of a reversed reverb tail in there. Experiment with different sounds and you can get some really interesting results.
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Re: Adding more color and atmosphere to vocals?
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2016, 09:33:36 pm »
Adding a harmony of the vocal (use something like Soundtoys Little Altarboy or just duplicate it and pitch shift it) that's an octave down is also a nice way to help add some color if you only mix in a little bit.

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Re: Adding more color and atmosphere to vocals?
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2016, 10:36:16 pm »
I add a compressor, reverb, EQ & ping pong delay and it seems to beef it up and make it nice and echoey.  :)
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