Top Vocal Production Effects In-Action
If you're wondering what some of the latest vocal production effects are and how recreate them in your tracks and productions, this one's for you. In this vocal production video course, Production guru Gary Hiebner shows you a myriad of production techniques and effects that are heard all over the radio waves and charts. From subtle effects like doubling and slapback delay to more novel treatments like vaporwave-style effects and crushed, saturated vocals, you'll learn plenty of ways to keep things fresh and relevant in your productions. These videos are for those with general mixing and plugin experience.
Videos
• Introduction to Vocals & Effects Processing Chain Setup (07:06) - Gary starts off by explaining what will be covered in the video series and also shows his basic effects processing chain for the vocal track.
• Creative Ways for Doubling Vocals (05:10) - Learn how to use a harmonizing effect to create a doubled, wide-sounding vocal effect.
• Vocals with Sidechained Reverbs & Delays (07:43) - Discover how sidechained reverb and delay sends work better on vocals and help bring the main vocal forward in the mix.
• Creating a Vintage Slapback Delay Effect (06:33) - Slapback delays can lend a very nostalgic feel to your vocals. In this video, Gary shows you how you can build your own slapback delay effect. By adding some saturation to these delays, you can get add some vintage flavor to the effect.
• Crushed & Saturation Vocals (07:14) - See how to create a filtered, saturated vocal effect that works well for creating some contrast and interest in your vocals.
• Creating Delay Throws (04:59) - Learn the best way to create delay throws. Instead of using sends and automation, you can use a new track with the vocal part on and add an effects chain with delays and other effects to create interest.
• Pitching the Vocals Up & Down (06:39) - Here, we take a look at how you can layer pitched down and pitched up vocals with your main lead vocal. You can create interest by choosing where to add these parts in the arrangement.
• Formant Shifting with Detuning & Uptuning (05:43) - In this video, we discuss what formants are and see how you can use formant-shifting with your vocals. This technique can make your vocal either thicker or thinner but remain in the same pitch.
• Vocal Repeats & Pitch Shifting (05:47) - Here we take it a bit further and add pitch- and formant-shifting plugins on our delay sends. This way, only the delay repeats get formant- and pitch-shifted.
• Extreme Stretched Vocals (04:15) - Learn how you can stretch out your audio using time stretching algorithms to create long drone sounds.
• Automation of Reverb & Tail Volumes (04:45) - In this video, we combine using reverb and delay automation to generate excitement and contrast in our arrangement.
• EQ Filtered Backing Vocals (05:25) - A great way to create contrast with your vocals, especially if there are many vocals tracks, is to use a filtered EQ technique. Gary demonstrates this idea in this video.
• Classic AutoTune Effect (05:08) - Even though autotune has been around for a while, it continues to be used in more and more in productions in different ways. In this video, we examine what I like to call the classic autotune method.
• Making AutoTune More Interesting (04:36) - In this video, we take the autotune effect further by adding some chorus modulation to widen the vocal. Some automated formant shifting adds extra interest to the vocal.
• Vaporwave-style Vocals (06:50) - Discover the vaporwave aesthetic and see how we can apply it to our vocals. Generally described as slowed down music with pitched down vocals drenched in reverb, Gary shows you how you can add a bit of this flavor into your productions.
• Chopping Up Vocals (09:20) - Here, Gary shows how we can chop up a vocal part and do some creative editing to produce interesting results.
• Beatbox Vocals with Extra Processing (12:59) - Another interesting thing you can do with your vocals is to record some beatbox-style parts and then apply extra processing to make it sit nicely in your mix.
• Sampling Audio Parts (07:07) - Discover how to create unique effects by sampling a vocal and triggering it with the sampler.
• Using Vocoder Vocal Synth Effects (08:26) - Finally, we take a look at how to set up and use a vocoder to blend synthetic sounds with your vocals. We also check out the VocalSynth plugin from iZotope to get an idea of what's possible with it.