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October 31, 2018

Vocal Reverb & Delay: Add Life to Your Vocals With This 3 Step Approach

 

When it comes to vocals, reverb and delay can add that final touch that really sets things over the top. A great vocalist is a great vocalist. But a great vocalist wrapped in the ambience of the perfect reverb? The romance really comes alive then.

Reverb is a way of life, really. Whenever I track vocalists, the very first thing they always ask for is some reverb on their vocals. A dry vocal sound can be pretty disconcerting to listen to.

I mean, they’ve only ever heard their voice in physical spaces their whole life. So it’s only natural to want to hear oneself in a space of some sort!

That’s why it’s important to take your vocal ambience seriously. And once you sit down to dial in reverb and delay, the experience can be a bit more challenging than expected.

You scroll through preset after preset, and some might sound really great! But nothing is every quite perfect, is it? It’s like no preset really checks all the boxes for great vocal ambience.

Maybe the height is there, but that presets makes the vocals sound muddy. Or perhaps you want a tight room sound, but it makes the vocals feel small.

That’s why I segment my vocal ambience. Instead of relying on one reverb or delay, I parse out the responsibilities to multiple instances:

  1. Delay for room ambience
  2. Delay for width
  3. Reverb for height and space

So in today’s video, I break out my strategy for vocal reverb and delay into 3 steps.

Enjoy!

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  1. Shawn Upadhyaya says

    November 2, 2018 at 12:35 am

    Hey do you know how logic can emulate gross beat? its found on FL studio and is one of my favorite things but if logic had it that would be too crisp!

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    • chris.vandeviver says

      November 7, 2018 at 10:41 pm

      Hey Shawn! I’m not familiar with Gross Beat, can you give me a little background? Thanks!

      Reply
      • Shawn Upadhyaya says

        November 9, 2018 at 12:37 am

        It’s like a turntable type of plugin that is just hot when you put sounds threw it. it has a lot of presets – gates, flangers. The new site fx seems like it how it chuggs sound through the steps and out the sound comes but its completely different

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        • Shawn Upadhyaya says

          November 9, 2018 at 12:37 am

          step* effects

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          • chris.vandeviver says

            November 17, 2018 at 8:13 pm

            Hey Shawn,

            Unfortunately, I don’t believe Logic has a plugin like Gross Beats. Though I agree that Step FX is probably the closest one to it.

            Garageband for iOS has a pretty sophisticated set of DJ tools. Fingers crossed that they port the functionality to LPX!

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