acapella techniques to spice up your mix

liquidfx · Post by **liquidfx** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:46 pm

hey all...im new to Live, but have already gotten quite advanced.

can anyone help me out with some great tips or techniques for acapellas/vocals in Live?

are there any cool tricks im missing out on (not talkin about warping or syncing)?? any thing that can spice up the vocals and add excitement??

spiderprod · Post by **spiderprod** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:21 pm

i re-record the pellas via a tube mic preamp ,i apply a lot of drive so the pellas get the same texture & are easier to work on for a live set .
does it make sense to you?

liquidfx · Post by **liquidfx** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 4:24 am

yea...not bad...what brand of pre do u use?

michaellacy · Post by **michaellacy** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:50 pm

samson makes this half rack that i use that is warm and clear..with lots of presence..its like 25 bucks

kabuki · Post by **kabuki** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:05 pm

A couple of cool things that work for me (albeit not THAT advanced, but fun nonetheless)

1. Set up a Supatrigga (I prefer the VST version since its responce seens snappier) with all settingsa on 0%, repeat to 32nd, 64th or 128th. Program the instant repeat to a button/key. THis will do some on-the-fly glitch/stretch stuff and the voc will play on time once it is turned off... get Suppatrigga at kvraudio.com

2. Set up on a send a Simple Delay (Ping Pong works fine too) with the delay set to 2 beats. Trigger with button/joystick full-on to replicate a good beat juggling trick... works pretty much on anything.

3. This is the chain I run almost all my vocals thru...
Compressor 2 (moderate setting)/Filter Delay (steriofier, setting or something like that, in the default list 3rd or 4th from the bottom

Make sure you set the 3 filters to pan to the center or you signal will be bias to the left...)/EQ4 (boost tthe bottom end up just a bit)/Chorus to taste...

4. I also suggest rendering any vocals with analysis file and use that for performance. it will correct the timing and remove all but the first marker. From that point on, you can set non-warping markers to the cue points (like the corus, bridge and coice bits) for quick chopping... always re-render without FX...

Cheers

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spiderprod · Post by **spiderprod** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:01 pm

i use a studio project vtb1 tube preamp ,the drive on this one sound awesome if you chain a good compressor to the output .
usually i record everythingvia this preamp ,i even recorded my piano with a SE2200A and the vtb1 , the sound is so bright that it's addictive .
i also use it to remaster the accapellas & usually rerecord the bassline/strings/piano to fake the texture of the track .

ethios4 · Post by **ethios4** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:28 am

Put a Simple Delay on the vocal, adjust the delay to, say, 20 ms on the Left, 30 ms on the Right. Play with the Mix and Feedback. Weird spatial effects.