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Post by cowboycoalminer on Jul 31, 2013 18:15:30 GMT -6
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Post by Ward on Jul 31, 2013 23:03:15 GMT -6
I would try different microphones for her. Love this song.
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Post by grummy on Aug 1, 2013 2:14:22 GMT -6
Nice track. She has cool voice too. My only real complaint is her esses seem to really jump out in an unnatural way. Her esses don't match the rest of her voice. They sound detached and abnormally loud. If you're keeping this take maybe try some de-essing to smooth that stuff out?
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Post by kcatthedog on Aug 1, 2013 2:52:33 GMT -6
Hey CB,
I think I have heard this elsewhere but I thought it sounded flatter less dynamic than I remembered and a little more scooped out, but I still appreciate the word weary performance.
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Post by gouge on Aug 1, 2013 4:46:34 GMT -6
my non pro answer is it sounds a little strident. it just needs to be slowed down. i'd swap out the mic for something slower.
I would like to hear this run through a vp28 in line mode or tape.
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Aug 1, 2013 5:35:35 GMT -6
Thanks for the feedback. Probably not the right mic for her. I had her back about 1 and a half feet off. Still sibilant.
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Post by gouge on Aug 1, 2013 5:59:31 GMT -6
sm7 and vp28 it is then.
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Post by Ward on Aug 1, 2013 7:29:02 GMT -6
I would try her with a mellow LDC, like a 414EB or a Gefell M930, with a FASTER preamp to capture her air like a Grace101, and use a de-esser on playback (set to around 6khz and about 11db of reduction)...and a fair bit of compression too
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Post by svart on Aug 1, 2013 7:48:34 GMT -6
Ok, I've done some female vocals similar to this. The trick with this is serial compression with pre and post EQ. Avoid de-essers if possible with females, it makes the sparkle disappear from their natural high harmonics.
Set up an EQ and then send the output to an 1176, then to a LA2A, then to another EQ. The pre-EQ should be used to find really boomy stuff on the low mids and also anything really peaky in the high-mids/highs. Compression on the 1176 should be fairly fast attack and release, you just want to take off the peaks. The LA2A is pretty slow, it'll take the level down a bit. I wouldn't do more than 2-3db of compression from either one. The post-EQ is for fine tuning the vocal, cutting stuff that unclutters the sound.
In your example, I only heard a few things that stuck out at me. I felt it was a little boomy in the low mids. I usually wide cut down around 300hz on females. There is a slight nasal-ness, that usually happens with female voices as well. I usually narrow cut somewhere between 1k and 3k. The top end of her voice doesn't have much sparkle. I'd boost a little peak around 12k or so, but not that much. You might peak 12k on the pre-EQ so it boosts but doesn't get out of hand.
However, I also thought the background music was a little low and the instruments didn't have much top end.
Overall the sound was a little lo-fi to me and it seemed to beg for some EQ.
Hope this helps!
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