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Originally Posted by Biggsheff  I know things depend on the song, the singer etc. How wide should I be panning vocal stacks. If 100 is hard left or right. Like on a hook I've done 3 takes of a lead, panned center, 1 panned 40 left an right. Stacks panned as far out as 80 left an right. I guess it could be just personal preference. Any other way I might need to look at panning Vox. |
On r&b bv stacks, I usually record four passes of each note....if there are three notes in your chord, then I will usually record low.times four..mid times four and high times four.
Now I pan EACH TRACK in succession hard left, hard right, hard left hard right...go all the way thru all twelve tracks this way.
You SHOULD get a nice silky blend depending in the attitude of thje vocal performances.
Make a group out of all 12 faders.
Highlight your 12 faders you wish for your group
In PT go to Track/group/
You wil see the 12 tracks in the box and remove what doesnt belong there.
Clicjk OK
Now you can control the entire bvs with just one of those faders.
DO NOT put your return track there for obvious reasons.
Now....open an aux return with a nice smooth eq..maybe Sonalkiss...
boost a little maybe 11 kz....a little 5kz..if the vocs have too much low-mid buildup then hi pass at around mqybe 300hz or find the frequency which is the culprit and hi pass from that point.
Bus send each of your bv tracks to that aux return.
Now open another aux return with a nice smooth vocal plate and bus send your vocs there as well all the time making sure to balance your sends and returns accordingly.
See what happens.