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deuc647 · 2nd March 2006

I feel ya on the artist performance and voice in general, cuz my voice sux in between tracks but i can mix my friends voice nice, but to me thats what an engineer is paid to do , if EQ is needed then add or subtract a lil, boost in the 8 to 12khz if needed, run a high pass filter to take out boominess, add more compression, I sometimes use a plug with 8:1 and it works fine sometimes. Its a big dissapointment when i hear great tracks that are, for a lack of better words, dimmed by the vocal performance. Its crazy cuz i get a lot of newbies that say they want the vocals louder in the mix , and i think its already over the track by a couple dbs, it seems that they want to show everyone that they are on a song.I mix all my sh-- evenly, if it doesnt fit flush in the mix, i make them redo the performance.

2nd March 2006	#18
deuc647 Lives for gear Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 2,017 Thread Starter	I feel ya on the artist performance and voice in general, cuz my voice sux in between tracks but i can mix my friends voice nice, but to me thats what an engineer is paid to do , if EQ is needed then add or subtract a lil, boost in the 8 to 12khz if needed, run a high pass filter to take out boominess, add more compression, I sometimes use a plug with 8:1 and it works fine sometimes. Its a big dissapointment when i hear great tracks that are, for a lack of better words, dimmed by the vocal performance. Its crazy cuz i get a lot of newbies that say they want the vocals louder in the mix , and i think its already over the track by a couple dbs, it seems that they want to show everyone that they are on a song.I mix all my sh-- evenly, if it doesnt fit flush in the mix, i make them redo the performance.