Mixdown Practicing & Learning

Magghy Ji

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Jessmar Romea
Oct 29, 2023
Here's my crack at Brian C Cai Fei Hong's - “Your Star”

This was fun. I mainly produce and mix dance music that my brother and I co-produce, so this was somewhat out of my comfort zone.

https://on.soundcloud.com/xh893

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VD4nSWSxHmTjXTCALhn2fynpZ2Y3SPry/view?usp=sharing

Live Suite 11.

Plugins used:

Valhalla Vintage Verb
SSL Native Drumstrip
SSL Native Bus Compressor 2
Fabfilter Pro MB
Fabfilter Pro Q3
Fabfilter Pro L-2
Soothe 2
Trackspacer
Soundtoys Devil Loc
Soundtoys Echoboy
Soundtoys Decapitator
Softube Weiss MM1
Softube Drawmer S73
Knif Audio Soma
Melda MStereo Processor
Voxengo Span
VUMT Deluxe

Open to any feedback and questions. Can't wait to check out everyone else's! Cheers.
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Ron Allen
Oct 29, 2023
Super essy vocals, but i really dig that delay on the second lead vocal. I wish I'd thought of that!
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Jessmar Romea
Oct 29, 2023
Thanks for the feedback Ron! I have to admit that I don't do much vocal processing. What do you normally do to de-ess vocals in terms of EQ. Which frequencies do you attenuate? Do you use any plugins to help?
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Ron Allen
Oct 29, 2023
For this one, I had to do a lot of manual de-essing. Just found the esses, and gained them down or shortened them. Every vocal has esses in a different frequency. i think these were at 4k and 6-7k. I just used a stock logic de-esser for the quick ones on top of the manual work that I already did. It's tough to EQ out esses without dulling the rest of the vocal, so i think something dynamic or something manual is a better solution. (BTW - I went a little too far in de-essing this one.)
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Ron Allen
Oct 29, 2023
One other thing: if you use a compressor with a lot of character or saturation, it definitely makes esses harder to deal with later in the chain.