Tips & Techniques:Vocals-split duties

This is something I do live a lot, but also with recorded bands. Especially with quick mixes. It involves splitting vocals into two mix channels.

Channel one of the two is the "natural" channel so I give it a mild EQ and maybe comp treatment.

Channel two is the "make-up" channel. I set a compressor to about 10:1 and get gain reduction on just about everything. Even the soft parts. With the EQ I hi-pass it somewhere around 200-300Hz (leave that stuff up to the other channel), and boost the mids or highs, whatever serves the song. You don't hear it when the singer is nice and strong, but as he/she dips down this helps to keep things clear.

This may be old news to some or sound crazy to others. I like it." class="inlineimg" />

[CALPRIT]

Hey y'all m new to this site and have seen you guys discuss some good & important notes. i am an aspiring self taught producer/engineer & ive been doing this since 2005, now there is one question i'll like to ask, say i duplicate my main vox and the secondary vox i down or up the pitch a bit, what iv realised is that the tone changes, my question is how do you correct the tone so that it still sounds like the o.g but at a lower or higher pitch??? thumbsup..

[baze sax]

finaly I 've found an answer. I have read about this method for enhancing solo vocal(instr) in the studio but was not sure if this is good for live sound. so I can try it soon. I have to find a good splitter first. can you recomend one? and what about phase issues someone mentioned. greets