

Vocal Assistant makes this easier than ever by analyzing the content of your vocal performance and generating an effects preset form-fitted to the nuances of your singer and your music. One of the most challenging aspects of vocal mixing is tailoring your channel strip to the style and abilities of your vocalist. Nectar 3 is a complete vocal production envrionment in one plug-in. Nectar 3’s powerful fluid EQs can track the harmonics of your vocal signal, letting you make cuts or boosts that follow your pitch.Ĭompress, de-ess, mix harmonies, and more within a fluid, resizable UI. Get DSP for harmonies, doubling, saturation, and much more. Or can you write down the difference in DB between the kick drum and a hi-hat in a drum loop, and then check on the oscilloscope view in a compressor? Or can you write down the frequency of a harsh tone in one part of a song, then notch it out with an EQ to see how close you were? Being good at those 3 skills is about 50% of being good at mixing.12 vocal-focused processing modules offer the treatment you need for any type of vocal. Like, make a game with yourself to see if you can write down the dominant frequency ranges for a soloed synth patch and then check how close you were with a spectrum analyzer. You know, you can work on that part deliberately. On the bright side, you make most of your "perceptual" gains in the first 6 months or so. Unfortunately, that part sometimes takes a couple of years before people are totally satisfied with their ability to pick out certain things. I think the hardest part is learning the perceptual skills.

Super high quality! Makes it sound like you're listening to monitor speakers when you're on headphones, so you can work at night without disturbing people.

I have my entire DAW cloned to my surface pro tablet, so when I'm checking in the living room on my stereo I can make changes right away without going back into my "studio".Īlso, Beyerdynamic makes a great VST called virtual studio. It helps if you keep a notepad in your car, and just wait until the next time you're driving to check the mix there. Sure, the last bit (listening on other systems) is really the most time consuming because you have to "cleanse your palette".
