balancing backing vox

dharma one · 18th December 2005

youve got an rnb track with 4 doubles of each harmony, with 4 stacked parts altogether (including the unison doubles). so about 16 tracks altogether. do you send them all to one bus and compress together? or send each harmony to their own bus (so that you can control the levels between different harmonies) and compress/eq separately?

any tips for making the levels easy to control and balance with the music?

also do you pan everything quite wide, or pan each harmony differently?

do you send a little bit of each stack to a reverb or delay bus or leave them dry? what kind of reverb times are you having on the BV bus?

thanks a lot
j

Fletcher · 18th December 2005

Absolutely!!! ... and sometimes you can/should/shouldn't/might/may not create additional harmonies or use reverbs that stretch certain portions of a phrase to work with or against other portions of a phrase... or cut it way down.

Whatever fits the song is the best course of action.

18th December 2005	#1
dharma one Gear maniac Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: London Wimbledon Posts: 173 Thread Starter	balancing backing vox youve got an rnb track with 4 doubles of each harmony, with 4 stacked parts altogether (including the unison doubles). so about 16 tracks altogether. do you send them all to one bus and compress together? or send each harmony to their own bus (so that you can control the levels between different harmonies) and compress/eq separately? any tips for making the levels easy to control and balance with the music? also do you pan everything quite wide, or pan each harmony differently? do you send a little bit of each stack to a reverb or delay bus or leave them dry? what kind of reverb times are you having on the BV bus? thanks a lot j

18th December 2005	#2
Fletcher member no 666 Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Durham, NC Posts: 9,465	Absolutely!!! ... and sometimes you can/should/shouldn't/might/may not create additional harmonies or use reverbs that stretch certain portions of a phrase to work with or against other portions of a phrase... or cut it way down. Whatever fits the song is the best course of action. __________________ CN Fletcher Professional Affiliations: R/E/P Professional Recording Engineer and Producer forums - serious hobbyists welcome TELEFUNKEN Elektroakustik SoundPure.com mwagener wrote on Sat, 11 September 2004 14:33 We are selling emotions, there are no emotions in a grid Roscoe Ambel once said: Pro-Tools is to audio what fluorescent is to light

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