Most of the time I will have some form of compression and EQ on my grouped tracks but there are times where a little more processing will be added. Whenever you add processing to the combined background vocals it has a glue like effect, fusing them together.
Piggy backing off of contrast and blend, sending the background vocals to a Group Bus can help tremendously. Just pan them hard left and hard right and focus more on the blend (to sound like a chord) and also the contrast between the lead vocals. They are going to accompany the lead vocal/melody and therefore don’t necessarily have to be easily heard on their own. Try and think of background stacks or harmonies as one.
Is it realistic to record each note of a piano chord and then start panning them into their own “pocket”? You know pan the high harmony 50% left and right and the mid harmony 75% Left and Right etc.īut if you think about it for a second, a harmony is just a note of a chord. The one thing that I think is easy to do as a new engineer is to try and find the perfect spot for every part of a stack or harmony. So here are 5 things to think about when mixing background vocals and who knows, maybe they can help improve and simplify your approach. Now when I refer to background vocals in this article I am talking about vocals stacks like harmonies or over dubs anything that accompanies the performance and not a riff or ad lib. But even then I still don’t stress about it. The only time I would really put a lot of emphasis on the background vocals is if the song was EXTREMELY vocal driven, like an Accapella or a ballad with few instruments. The truth is though, the quicker I got to a minimalist approach the better my background vocals sounded. Even I was at a point where I used to over think and stress about the background vocals and how I could get them to fit into the mix. I think there is not enough tutorials focusing on it. How to EQ them so that they sit good with the Lead Vocal, what Reverb I should use, technique about Panning them (especially when you’ve Got a lot of backing vocals) and Compression technique. HELLO !!! can you make a video talking more about Mixing Background Vocals (R&B). Below is a question I received from a member. I’ve received a few requests to cover the topic of mixing background vocals.
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