How to Mix Vocals
When we began our Home Recording Basics series, we were just setting up the room, aligning our monitors and affixing acoustic treatments. Now, some four months later, we’ve recorded drums, guitar, and software instruments, EQ’d, compressed, and mixed our instrumental tracks, and are finally ready for the last lesson: mixing vocals.
Recording voices can be tricky, because everyone's voice is unique. Some are deep and raspy, others are light and airy. Some are pitch-perfect and others have a bit more… well… character. Unfortunately, you can’t tune a vocal cord.
Because of the unique qualities and constraints of the world’s oldest instrument, the same approach to tracking vocals rarely works twice. That’s why it’s important to, first and foremost, tailor your mixing approach based on what the track calls for.
This is an excerpt from How to Mix Vocals, originally published by Reverb. Read the full version here.
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