EQ:- Eq is often used to shape the tone of a vocal track. Which meanest is often used by engineers to enhance the tone, make the tone muddy, enhance the low ends etc. In EQ the first step I would suggest is to remove the low ends. Play around with the eq to remove the rumbles in the track and make it as clean as possible before putting on any effects or compression. Use a high pass filter to remove most of the low frequencies like the background noise. Use drastic eq to find out where the vocalists sound good in the mix which is a well known thing to the engineers. Eq may differ with the kind of genre you are mixing. Ten years ago, it was safe to make a statement like, “don’t mix a rap singer like you are mixing a country song.” (behindthemixer.com).
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Pg 103) A Compressor is a device that allows an engineer to control a drastic swing in dynamics of vocal tracks mainly. It acts as a gate, and allows the signal to be constant and to bring down the level of the signal when it goes above the threshold. This can also bring a negative impact on a vocal track because, when the vocalist wants to bring in dynamics in an emotional area, the compressor tries to make the signal constant which reduces the feel of the song. Compression is widely used in the audio industry. Compressors are mainly used on a lead vocals is because most singers cannot singer every word in the song in one level, so as a result words get buried; compressors help the engineers to bring out these buried words. When we convert a file from WAV to Mp3 is compressed and some of the elements are taken away from the mix like the psychoacoustics, it is known as lossy compression. Often the word ’S’ or even known as sibilance on the vocal track that can be heard properly after the compression. For this, a process called De-Esser is used, which is also a part of compression and which is widely used by engineers in order to remove or decrease the’S’
Pg 103) A Compressor is a device that allows an engineer to control a drastic swing in dynamics of vocal tracks mainly. It acts as a gate, and allows the signal to be constant and to bring down the level of the signal when it goes above the threshold. This can also bring a negative impact on a vocal track because, when the vocalist wants to bring in dynamics in an emotional area, the compressor tries to make the signal constant which reduces the feel of the song. Compression is widely used in the audio industry. Compressors are mainly used on a lead vocals is because most singers cannot singer every word in the song in one level, so as a result words get buried; compressors help the engineers to bring out these buried words. When we convert a file from WAV to Mp3 is compressed and some of the elements are taken away from the mix like the psychoacoustics, it is known as lossy compression. Often the word ’S’ or even known as sibilance on the vocal track that can be heard properly after the compression. For this, a process called De-Esser is used, which is also a part of compression and which is widely used by engineers in order to remove or decrease the’S’