Vocals..... who's familiar with WAVES?

[Chief 'N' Hay]

just got ahold of this plug-in from my homie gate...... workin on some vocal tracks.... i'm clueless when it comes to this plug-in..... i'm lookin to clean up a bunch of vocals and bring them to life so to speak..... if anyone can shed some light on this help a brutha out..... thanx.....

Medicine Man

 

[Chief 'N' Hay]

maybe it's called goldwave or somethin like that.... i got it from the homie.... all i know is that it's dope and i need some direction.......
where's d-sane or heresy with that knowledge for dat asss??????

up

 

[H Town Dolemite]

-well u need to be more specific

-there is a cheap lil' wave editor called "Goldwave"

-there is also a bundle of audio plugins called "Waves"

-now if it's a "waves" bundle of plugins you have to install em and you can bring them up in a wave editor like soundforge or wavelab etc. (also specify which bundle it is)

 

[Chief 'N' Hay]

aight homie..... it's waves and i've installed them into cakewalk. i think the bundle is called native, if that helps any.....
thanx dogg

 

[HERESY]

I HAVE THE SOFTWARE. ITS IN MY DIRECT X PLUGIN LIST. WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU WANT TO KNOW? MY VERSION IS THE GOLD VERSION. KEV SKI HAS THE "PLATINUM" VERSION.

WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU TRYING TO DO WITH THE VOCALS? "CLEAN THEM UP AND BRING THEM TO LIFE"????

1.RE-TRACK THEM (AND COMPRESS THEM WHILE TRACKING)

2.SWITCH MICS

3.PROPER MICING TECHNIQUES(BACK AWAY FROM THE MIC,TILT IT OFF AXIS,POINT IT DOWN ETC ETC ETC)

THATS WHAT I WOULD DO "IF" IT WASNT TOO MUCH OF A HASSLE. I DONT KNOW IF YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO HAVE THE ARTIST RE TRACK THE LYRICS BUT THATS ALWAYS AN OPTION (AND BEST ONE IN MY OPINION).


BUT BE MORE SPECIFIC AS TO WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO DO AND WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW AND WHAT YOU HAVE TRIED. IM SURE MANY PEOPLE ON HERE CAN HELP.


:H:

 

[phil]

heresy did you get my last email????

 

[HERESY]

^^^ i received one with you asking about the speakers. i replied to it and made some suggestions. i havent received anything since then.


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[phil]

i believe it was in regards to the bbq, i must not have sent it

 

[Chief 'N' Hay]

thanx for the replies.... basically i'm trying to clean some vocals up and i'd also like to see about bringin out the vocals a lil maybe fattening them up a lil..... i really haven't used this program yet so i'm anxious to see if i can gain from it....

 

[infamous559]

3.PROPER MICING TECHNIQUES(BACK AWAY FROM THE MIC,TILT IT OFF AXIS,POINT IT DOWN ETC ETC ETC

:H:

ya true and if u got a cheap mic like me u can always cut tha end out of a paper cup and rap out of that it comes out preety loud n clear

 

[HERESY]

what do you mean by cleaning them up? are they dirty and distorted? too much fx on them? if so retrack (if the vocalist is able to retrack them). if thats not the case you should probably eq the vocals. a lot of voices reside in the mid range of the frequency spectrum so its best to play around in that area first. you can also cut some of the bass out.

i can only give general info because i dont know the mic that was used nor do i know what problems you have.


as far as fattening the vocals a chorus or delay will work. you can also make copies of the vocal track,pitch one up ,pitch one down and leave on "regular".after that you can pan the pitched tracks to the side but not hard right because phase cancellation may occur.

if you have loud "s" sounds (sibience) use a de-esser and cut around 6khz-8khz.



experiment

experiment

experiment

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[Chief 'N' Hay]

thanx heresy..... i feel you on the experiment and how you don't know what to say since you don't have the tracks in front of you.... i'm just lookin to use the program to my benefit..... i've got some vocals that need a little cleaning up.... i'll see what i can do with em though.... i'll let you know my results......p's