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I just installed the Fl studio 12 mac beta. I have the produced edition. I have a USB mic and Idk how to go about recording vocals? Do I have to instant a driver? When I go to the audio settings, no options for my USB mic show up! To start recording vocals, you need to make sure you have the correct settings in your FL Studio session. Open the session you want to record your vocals in and navigate to the Options menu. From the dropdown, select Audio Settings. From there, you’ll want to make sure you’ve selected the appropriate device under the Input/Output section.

When you are starting out, there are a lot of things to learn. Like how to record with a mic in FL Studio.

When you are new to the process it can seem overwhelming. But it doesn’t have to feel intimidating or overwhelming.

In this post I’ll cover the basics about how to set up and record, from a microphone in FL Studio.

It may seem complicated at first.

• I'm new to FL, but I do have a lot of experience with recording and mixing in Logic Pro X. The entire process of recording audio tracks in Logic was so seamless and intuitive while FL Studio seems to make it as difficult as possible. I WOULD just bounce the stems and record vocals over in Logic, but I no longer have that Mac and am stuck on a PC.
• The second way we can record vocals in FL Studio is with Edison in the Mixer. Edison is an audio editing and recording plugin by Image-Line, and comes with FL Studio Producer Edition and up. It allows for more control when recording and is better suited for sampling than recording into the Playlist.

But I promise once you have done it a couple of times, it’ll feel like second nature.

Let’s get to it.

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Basic Steps to setup your mic and interface

We’ll cover the components you need, how to set everything up the first time, and how to start recording.

I’m going to give you two options you can use for recording.
You can pick which method works best for your workflow.

Here are the pieces of audio gear you are going to need to follow along with this post:

1. A Microphone
2. An Audio Interface
3. A Microphone cable
4. A purchased copy of FL Studio Producer or Signature Edition.
5. Laptop or Computer
6. A pair of headphones

*Note if you are using a USB Microphone to record, the process is a little bit different.

Let’s get back to this example.

We’re going to do a couple of things to make recording happen:

1. Setup the gear we need
2. Open FL Studio
3. Save the project
4. Configure the audio interface
   1. ASIO Device
   2. Buffer Size
5. Set the location to record audio to
6. Setup the mixer track
7. Set up the transport controls
8. Record audio
   1. Option to record from playlist
   2. Option to record with Edison
9. Advanced options
   1. Loop recording
   2. Headphone mix

STEP 1 – Setup the Gear

Plug the audio interface into the computer.

Audio interfaces come in a variety of connections.
So plug into the correct port (USB, Firewire, or Thunderbolt).

Now plug the microphone cable into the mic.
Make sure that the Phantom power button is not on on your audio interface.

And then plug the other end into your audio interface.

If the microphone needs phantom power (+48V), then push the +48V button.

Generally, condenser mics need phantom power. Dynamic mics do not.

Having phantom power on when you plug the mic into the audio interface can cause damage to your microphone.

So we want to keep that microphone working well for a long time.

Open up FL Studio

Now let’s open up FL Studio.

I’m currently running version 20 of FL Studio. Which as of 2019, is the latest version.

It looks this when you open it up …

Save the Project

First thing I like to do is to save the project.
It may seem a little weird to save a song before we’ve started.

But it’s just to help prepare where we are going to record things.

FL Studio calls the files you save projects, but really it’s a song.

Hit CTRL + S on your keyboard.

This will bring up a dialog window that lets you choose where you want to save the project.

So name the song what you want to. And then choose where you want to save it on your computer.

And finally press the save button.

Setting up the Audio Interface

Let’s get everything setup to record from our mic.

To get to the settings window in FL Studio, press F10 on your keyboard.

This will bring up a dialog box that has a couple tabs across the top like Midi, Audio, General and File.

This is the settings window in FL Studio.

You’re going to click on the Audio tab.
And you should see a section called input/output.

So underneath is the device drop down menu.
You want to look for your device (audio interface).

There should be some options at the top that are called direct sound devices.
And underneath of that there should be some called ASIO devices.

We want to look at the drop down menu of ASIO devices.

ASIO Settings

So from the ASIO devices menu select the driver for your audio interface.

The name of the driver might not be exactly the name of your audio interface.
I am working off of a Presonus AudioBox iTwo audio interface in this example.

And in my case the ASIO device is called AudioBox ASIO Driver.

So I select that as my ASIO Device.
And then we need to set up the buffer.

Buffer Settings

Below the device drop down menu you’ll see another box that says buffer length.

I’m not going to go into a lot of detail about this.

But for recording, you want the buffer setting as low as you can get it, without it starting to clip, crackle, or pop.

This will prevent you from hearing a delay when you go to record your audio. It will also make sure that you get a clean sound from your interface.

In my case I’m selecting a buffer length of about 6-8 milliseconds. For me, if I try to go lower than that I start to get some crackle in my recordings.

You will be able to hear pops and crackles in your recording if you have it set too low.

You can see in this menu if you have had underruns.

So now we have the audio interface setup.

Now FL Studio can receive the input from the audio interface.

So let’s choose where we are going to save our recorded files.

Choose where to save the audio files

While we still have the Setting Window open let’s do one more thing.

We’re going to go over to the Project tab.

You should see a box beneath that that says data folder.

This lets you pick the folder on your computer that you want to save the recorded audio to.

Click on the folder icon and select where you want the data to be stored.

And now we’ll move on to setting up the mixer track.

Setting up the mixer track

This is where we set up the microphone input from the mixer track.

This will get the input from the microphone and the audio interface into a mixer track in FL Studio.

The first thing that we’re going to need to do is set up your microphone in a mixer Channel.

Press F9 on your keyboard and that will bring up the mixer window.

You should see a whole bunch of vertical bars, They will be titled Insert 1, Insert 2, and so on.

These are all mixer tracks for the project that you’re working on.

Let’s pick Insert 4 for this example.

When you click on it you’ll see a green box around it. And the fader will turn green at the bottom.

If you go to the right side of the mixer window you’ll see another box. In that box you’ll see Slot 1, Slot 2, and so on.

These are your effects slots that you can put on an individual mixer Channel.

But we’re going to be paying attention to the drop-down menu that’s at the top. It has an arrow pointing into a box. That is where you are going to select the input that you connected your to.

When you look at the drop-down menu you should see options that have your audio interface name and then stereo and mono track options.

Since we’re recording one microphone I’m going to assume that it’s a mono source. Because most mics are mono sources unless you have a stereo microphone.

So I select mic input one. Because that’s where I plugged in my microphone.

As you talk into the microphone you should see the bars on the insert for channel moving up and down. This means that you’re getting signal into the insert Channel.

Which means that you set it up right. Woohoo!

Now onto the transport controls.

Setting up transport controls

Up at the top of the FL Studio program you’ll see some transport controls.
These are the play button, the stop button and record button.

Right click on the record button and you should see some options.
It should have a box that says recording filter. And underneath of that with options to check automation, notes, audio, and clips.

Since we are recording audio we want to make sure that the audio option is checked by right-clicking.

Next to the play button there is a button that says pat on the top and song on the bottom.

Make sure that the song button is highlighted. Because that will allow us to record directly to the playlist. If it’s not selected, press the song button now.

Now you should see a green arrow show up in your playlist window and the song button should be highlighted in green.

I also like to set up a count in before it starts recording.

This option gives you a four count click before the recording starts. Which is helpful.

Press CTRL + P to turn this option on.

Alright, you’ve finished all the setup.
Now it’s time to do some recording.

Record Audio

What I like about FL Studio is that there are several different ways of doing everything.

So there are a couple different options for recording audio:

1. Recording directly into the playlist
2. Recording through Edison

Before you start recording, make sure to plug in your headphones.
You don’t want the audio from the song to be bleeding into your mic.
You’ll get some weird sounds and feedback from doing that.

We’ll cover recording into the playlist first, since that is the most common.

Recording in the playlist in FL Studio

Open up the Mixer window by pressing F9.
Go to Insert 4 where we set up the mic.
At the bottom of the fader there is a track arm button.
Press that so it turns red.

You can also right click on the arm track button to bring up a window.
You could save the audio file to a different location if you want. And you can give the file whatever name you choose.

Open up the playlist window by pressing F5.
Click a spot on the playlist where you would want to start your recording.
I like to choose a spot a little before so it give me more time.

Now click on the record button in the transport bar, and wait for the count in.

Then start recording audio.

Once you are finished. Press Stop in the transport controls, or press the Space bar.

And that’s it. You’ve learned how to record a mic in FL Studio.
But I’ll show you another way to do it as well.

Recording a mic in Edison in FL Studio

Let’s get back to the mixer window.
Press F9.
Then go to Insert 4.
Go to the right side where the Slots are.
Click on the down arrow in Slot 1.
A window will come up that you will show you all the available plugins.

Look for the miscellaneous section and you should see Edison.
Pick Edison and a window should pop up.

To the right of the record button is a drop down menu.
Select On Play. And then press the record button.
Nothing will happen at this point, so don’t freak out.

This option just arms Edison to record.
Then go to your playlist window.
Click where in the song you want to start recording.

I like to move the marker to a little bit before that.
It gives you a little extra time before it starts the part you want to record.

When you are ready hit the play button.
This will start the recording in Edison.

When you are done, press the Stop on Edison.
And then you can Press stop on the Transport Controls in the Playlist.

There’s a button in the top right side of Edison.
Click that and then drag what you recorded into the playlist where you set your marker to start.
Everything will be lined up.

And that’s all you have to do to record audio in Edison.

BONUS TIPS – ADVANCED RECORDING OPTIONS

Now we’re getting into the extra credit section. You don’t have to do this.

But this is a way to take your mic recording skills to the next level.

Multiple Takes

One of the reasons that I like using Edison to record is the multiple takes option.
So as I’m putting together a song, I can highlight a certain section I want to record.
Let’s take the chorus for instance.

I can go the Playlist window by pressing F5.
I right click and drag around the section of the song I want to record.
Open up Edison on the Mixer Track, with the On Play option selected.
Arm Edison to record by pressing the record button.

Now when I press Play on the transport controls it will record.
It will keep recording as many takes of that section as you want.
I could do 3-5 takes on that one part.

Stop Edison when you are done. And stop the song in the transport controls.

Now in Edison you should see multiple takes.
I can select one of those takes by double-clicking on the orange marker at the front.

Then I can drag that take into the playlist. Using the drag to playlist option on Edison. (The button that’s highlighted in blue below)

I could drag all of them in individually if wanted.
Then I could create vocal comps of the best of those takes. But that’s a different subject.

Separate Mix

Another option you can try is to set up a headphone mix for your vocalist.

Each track in the mixer window is routed by default to the Master Fader.
You can see this when you click on any of the Insert tracks. It’s the neon green line that goes to the Master Fader.

You can change the default routing of a track if you want, though.

So let’s go back to Insert 4, where we set up our mic.

Now right click on the arrow at the bottom of Insert 5. You’ll see an option box come up.
It looks like this.

Now we’ll select the option that says route to this track only.
This is going to send the audio from Insert 4 to Insert 5 only.

So we’ve set up a new signal path for Insert 4.

It used to be that Insert 4 went directly to the Master Fader.

Now Insert 4 goes to Insert 5, and then to the Master Fader.
So we’re going to set up effects on Insert 5. And that will go into the Master Fader.
So that’s what you’ll hear in the headphones.

But, we will record on Insert 4, where there will be no effects.
So we’ll have a dry signal that we can edit and add effects to later.

So click on Insert 5.
Now go the Slots on the right side of the Mixer Window.
In Slot 1, let’s pick Fruity Delay 2.
In Slot 2, let’s pick Fruity Reeverb 2.

So if you sing into the mic. You’ll hear the effects.
But, if you record the vocals from Insert 4, there won’t be any effects.

This gives you the opportunity to edit and add different effects later in your mix.

So there you have it.

You’ve learned how to record with a mic in FL Studio. And I’ve given you some bonus tips on how to record multiple takes. And even set up a separate headphone mix for a vocalist.

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I hope you enjoyed it.

The vocals are a vital part of a song, even if you have a great recording or acapella if it’s not mixed well it won’t stand out. To get the most out of your vocals you should be using audio plugins, compressors, and equalizers.

In all DAWs the workflow for vocals is usually the same, but the way of doing things is different, in this post I will be talking about the DAW that I use, which is fl studio 20. If you use other DAW but you know well how to use it, you can follow the post without a problem.

The first thing before starting to mix vocals is comping, which is basically fitting together the best takes of the recording, so it’s really important that you get a lot of takes before starting with the mixing.

When people travel, usually they take hundreds of photos of the place they have been to and end up only using a few, the same happens with vocals, when you listen to the recordings you will always notice some mistakes or thing that could be improved, so to get the result you have in mind you should get as many takes as you can.

Also before starting with the mixing process, you should check if you could improve your room acoustics, microphone or if you feel that the song needs some changes in the melody or the lyrics. You don’t want to expend a lot of time mixing a part you aren’t going to use.

When you have everything ready, and fitted with the rest of the track(Synth, instruments, ad-libs, samples), then is the time to start making room for the vocals and getting the vocals to sound louder and better.

To mix vocals you will need plugins and good takes from the singer. Before starting to mix you should comp your vocals and crossfade were you connect one part to the next one, once you have the final acapella you can start mixing. The first part of mixing vocalsis to De-noiseand Normalize, then use a plugin for pitch correction to get the acapella perfectly in tune, after that, you can use an equalizer before using a compressor to remove noise you couldn’t get rid offand then use a compressor for loudness and an equalizer in the instruments to make room for the vocal and another one in the vocal to enhance some frequencies.

Let’s make a summary:

1. Comp the vocals, which is cutting the best parts of the recording and putting them together.
2. Remove any noise that may have originated from the room where you recorded the acapella, or from the streets or noise from the singer being too near from the mic, whatever noise it is, remove it.
3. Normalize and apply gain automation to make everything sound equally loud without applying compression.
4. With a pitch-correction plugin analyze the song and look for any note that maybe out of tune and correct its pitch.
5. Use an equalizer and listen to the acapella, maybe there aren’t noises but you may find some sounds disturbing, search for those sounds with the spectrum analyzer, then use a bell shape to raise the volume where those frequencies are, and when you find the exact point, just lower the volume of those frequencies.
6. After that you can use a compressor to make everything sound at the same level or in other words make the quieter parts sound louder, it may enhance some frequencies you may not like, but with some plugins, you can decide which frequencies you want to compress more, so for example, you could get to compress the mids, and not the highs and the lows.
7. Make room for the vocal, changing the volume and equalizing each instrument, so the range of frequencies where the sound of the vocal has more presence isn’t distorted by any instrument or synth.
8. Use another equalizer on the vocal to enhance those frequencies you like the most in the vocal.
9. Finally, use effect plugins, reverb, and delay.

Comping vocals

Getting a perfect take is really difficult, even if the singer has been singing for years, mistakes happen, you may think that is the one after one listening but then you notice the mistakes, and you can’t do anything about it. To avoid this you should get a lot of takes and since it’s really difficult to get a perfect take, you should get the best part of each take.

This collage of takes is called comp(which is short for “compilation”). This method is not only a great way to get the best vocal possible but also it makes easier the recording process, once the singer has done a number of takes he/she can leave and you don’t have the problem of realizing there is a mistake when you are mixing it and having to call the singer for more takes.

You can do great with five takes, making more will mean a longer time to decide which parts to get from each take without getting a better result.

It is very important that when you do the first take before jumping into the next one you listen to the vocals with the track if you already have the track made or imagine how it will sound with the rest of the instruments to see if there are some things you want to change in the melody of the song or in the lyric.

Sometimes a word can be replaced with a shortened synonym that fits better the melody and sounds more natural.

Once you have the vocals, the first thing to do is to get the lyrics and separate the phrases of each verse and from the chorus. After that listen to each take and rate each phrase, from very bad to very good. Then listen to all the phrases rated as very good and if one of them doesn’t convince you got to the same phrase rated lower.

Once you got the best parts you just have to cut and put it all together.

In fl studio, you can have each take on a track of the playlist and have them one in top of each other so it’s really easy to have them all muted, and then listen one by one and then zooming and cutting each phrase you liked.

Now that you made the cuts, delete from the playlist the rest of the takes, and put each phrase near to the next one, to bind them as better as possible and make the transition sound smoother, make a crossfade, which means lowering the volume of the last and first bit of each phrase so when the transition happens both audio clips are at the same volume.

If you don’t do a crossfade, some clicking sounds may appear when you pass from one audio clip to the next one.

Fl Studio Vocal Plugin

To crossfade an audio clip, double click on it, go to declicking mode and select Crossfade(bleeding). You don’t need to do anything more, but if you want more control over the crossfading you will have to automate the volume and lower the phrase that ends and raise the phrase that begins.

To automate the volume just double click the sample or in this case the audio clip, right-click the volume knob and select “create automation clip” from the list. You can do this same thing to automate a lot of knobs, from synths to effects.

De-noise

If you have recorded the appropriate place you shouldn’t get any noise in your vocals, usually this happens when vocals are recorded near a fan, a computer or windows that are near the street, but vocals should be recorded in a completely quiet place which has some kind of acoustic treatment.

A plugin called Edison in fl studio can help you remove this type of noise, you can easily use it double-clicking on the sample and right-clicking on the wave image at the bottom and then click edit, which leads you to Edison.

Now in Edison select a part where you are not singing and there is only noise, then right-click on the toothbrush icon, it should say something like noise profile acquired, then right-click on the same toothbrush icon and here you can select the amount of noise reduction you want, if you get a lot of amounts it will sound distorted, so try to have the least amount possible, preview it to see if the noise disappears, and keep tweaking the amount till you have no noise but the audio still sounds good.

This is only for background noise, in case the singer has too much breathiness or there are ‘S’ or ‘P’ sounds, you should have used a pop filter in the mic, you can still use plugins called De-essers to remove those sounds, but is better if you just use a pop filter when you record the vocals.

Another thing you won’t remove with this technique is clipping in the vocal. If this happens is because of the mic, to remove it from the vocal or to know why your mic maybe clipping check this post.

Normalize and gain automation

Normalizing is as easy as going to the sample settings and clicking normalize, in Edison you can do this by section but is a bit dangerous, so just normalize the whole track and if some parts sound quiet, you can make them sound louder later with compression.

Gain automation is the same as volume automation, which I already talked about. So you can raise the volume of quieter parts of the vocal, when the singer almost whispers, and lower the loudest part where the singer may scream.

This is similar to compression but it gives you more control and you are not affecting the quality of the vocal. The main problem with this technique is that you will expend a lot of time getting everything at the same level and also if you raise the volume too much you can get clipping.

Pitch correction

This is a vital part, which is getting everything in tune. The vocal may sound great and in tune, it’s not difficult to sing in tune if you have sung for some time, but even if the singer made an “A” that “A” can be towards an “A flat” or an “A sharp”, so to get it in the perfect position you would need a pitch correction plugin.

How To Record Vocals Fl

This type of plugins can make any vocal sound in tune, but it will sound artificial if there is a lot of difference from the original note, so for example, if you get from “G” to a “C” with the plugin, you will hear something a little bit weird and robotic, you can also change another thing of each note, but you should just use it to make small changes, like changing from “B flat” to “B”, and think that there aren’t biggest spaces between notes in a vocal because usually when a singer is out of tune is just one semitone.

There are a lot of plugins to make this small pitch correction changes, I use Melodyne but you can use Autotune instead which has a similar graphic interface in the last version.

To use it, route your vocal to a track in the mixer, just by selecting a channel number where it says “track” in the sample settings and double-click to go to the mixer. Then just hit the record button on the plugin, and play a phrase to get all the notes, after that you can change the pitch of notes of that phrase. It is better to go phrase by phrase as it takes some time to recognize all the notes.

Eq for removing sounds

At this point, you won’t have any noise but you can have some sounds you don’t like. To fix this you need first to find in which frequencies those sounds are originating and once you know where they are, simply lower them.

I use FabFilter Pro Q for eq, but you can use fruity parametric EQ2 as well.

To do this load the EQ plugin in the track where your vocal is routed and select analyzer if you use Fabfilter, then double-click to create a band and right-click to select a bell shape. If you use parametric EQ2 just click on any band and select peaking(you should have it as default).

Now search for that frequency raising the volume of that band and moving it from left to right, and when you find it lower the volume in that frequency range.

Compression

How To Add Vocals Into Fl Studio

Compression can be used for a lot of things. I use compressors to get vocals or sound louder, to get vocals or instruments only sound louder when the kick or beat is not present which is called side-chain compression, to change the sound quality of a sound and also to enhance and reduce some frequencies with a multiband compressor.

This sounds very complex, and it can be, but you don’t need to know all about compression to get good results, just knowing where to use one and some preset settings will do the trick.

In this case, we are talking about compression on the vocals. It’s important that you have all sounds you don’t want to hear in the vocal removed with an equalizer as I said in the previous step, this is because the compressor will make some frequencies more noticeable than others.

The compressor has different knobs: threshold, attack, release, output gain. The most important are the threshold/ratio and the output gain, the threshold/ratio determines how much compression is applied, the less db the more compression, and the output gain is like a volume knob, you turn it up and it sounds louder.

If you turn the output know all the way up you will get the signal to clip(red), which is really bad because it will distort your sound, but if you turn down the threshold it will leave you with a lot of room for output gain. What this means is that you can make your vocals sound a lot louder, but without getting them distorted.

First set the ratio between 1:5-3:1, then have your threshold on -3db, apply some output gain to raise the volume until is at 0db or near 0db in the mixer bus/channel. If it doesn’t hit 0db then reduce the threshold and raise the output gain, the more you reduce the threshold the more you can raise the output gain, but be aware that reducing a lot the threshold will apply more compression and some qualities of the sound will be lost.

A simple setting is to have the threshold at -30db and the ratio at 2:1, now you can tweak the output gain until the volume in your bus hits 0db or until you think the vocals sound loud enough.

The attack and the release will have a subtle effect on the qualities of the vocal. A slow attack(30ms) will make the vocal sound more aggressive and emphasizes the consonants and clarity of the vocal, while a faster attack(15ms) will make the vocal sound smoother but it can also make it sound further back. On the other hand, we have the release; A slow release will make the sound more natural while a fast release will make more apparent details like breathings sound.

The changes in the attack and release are really subtle you may don’t even notice. The important knobs are just threshold, ratio, and output gain.

There are two cases where you need to use compression:

1. When your vocal sounds too quiet.
2. When there is a lot of dynamic range, which means there is a lot of difference in volume between the quieter and louder parts of the vocal.

If your vocals sound loud enough, and everything can be heard clearly in every part of the vocal, you don’t need compression. You can use compression to give certain tonal qualities to the sounds, but that is better done with specific plugins used just for vocals.

Eq to make room for the vocal

You can use EQ in the vocal to enhance some frequencies and remove high and lows so it doesn’t get in the way of the instruments, but it isn’t a vital part.

What is really important is that you have the frequencies where the vocal is more present empty or really quiet, so all the instruments should have an EQ.

Obviously drums and bass don’t need mid-frequencies so you can cut those, but with guitars or pianos is more difficult because if you cut the mid frequencies in those instruments they will sound horrible. In case of EQ for instruments where you can’t cut the mids, you can lower them in specific parts, you can just lower 3 or 6db and that will make a huge difference.

Panning is also really great to create space for the vocal, but this is not possible in all music genres.

Sometimes songs make what is called a wall of sound, where all sounds overlap each other but if you want the vocals to be heard clearly you need to figure out ways to get space for the vocal.

Sometimes it doesn’t have anything to do with mixing, but with arrangement, for example, if the notes of a piano that is being played while the singer is singing are in a different octave there won’t be any problem with overlapping frequencies, the same would happen if a piano is playing notes in the same octave as the singer but only when she stops singing or it’s being played lower when the singer sings.

Mixing can do great things to make a vocal sound clear without being overlapped by any instrument, but to get everything to sound great and connected, you need to think before-hand about arrangement, instruments, melody and the production as a whole.

Effect plugins

These types of plugins have compressors, reverb, delay, saturation, equalizer and other effects in them, all in one plugin. The benefit of this kind of plugins is that they are designed to enhance or mix vocals, and are also easier to manipulate.

You could use only one of this plugin alone to mix the vocals, but I prefer to use compressors, equalizer, reverbs and delays outside of the plugin, because usually you get more options and have more control in each part with a specific plugin.

One of the most popular plugins to mix nowadays is Nectar, which lets you mix everything, from equalizing to compression, and in this case, you get a lot of options to work around, and is also very visual and easy to use.

As I said before, the plugins made for vocals “Usually” are not made for making the entire mix with them, but it’s not the case of nectar, with nectar you can make all the mix with the plugin because it has a lot of features. This plugin has also a feature that automatically mixes your vocal called vocal assistant, the way to use it is as simple as clicking on it, playing the part of your vocals and you have your vocals mixed, but after that you have to tweak some of the changes made and add more things or remove others if you want to get a good result.

The plugins that I use to make some aftertouch on the vocals are all from waves plugins, I have CLA vocals stereo, EKramer VC stereo and Butch Big Vocals stereo, but I mostly use CLA vocals and Butch Big Vocals.

With CLA vocals, you can change the lows and highs, compression, reverb, delay, and pitch. You have three settings you can choose from each effect and then you can just turn up or down a knob to get more or less effect, which makes it really simple to use but you will also get great results.

Butch Big Vocals, on the other hand, has more features and is a little bit more complex, I use it sometimes like a compressor to make the vocals sound louder but also I use it to make the vocals sound more crispy. You can change the presence, saturation, compression and even give the vocal more air.

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Reverb

Reverbs give space to the sound, for example, you can make your vocals sound as if they were sung in a stadium or a cathedral.

Obviously when mixing vocals is rare that we want that effect as if our track is being played in one place, the actual purpose of reverb can vary, sometimes is used to make the vocal sound bigger while other times it can be used to make it sound more close and intimate.

• Short reverbs(rooms or small spaces), will add clarity and realism.
• Long reverbs(halls, plates, and large spaces), will add depth and widens the sound, usually, this type of reverb is most used in vocals to make them stand out in the mix.

The reverb that I use the most is, Redline-reverb. Fl studio has it’s own reverbs but it is better if you get a better one like Redline orValhalla.

The great thing about this reverb apart from the quality is that they come with a lot of presets, so you can go a test each one, then when you like the effect it makes you can lower the mix level knob on the bus where you have loaded the plugin so you get the exact sound you have in mind.

In case the reverb you use doesn’t come with presets you need to know that what makes a short or long reverb are early-reflections and pre-delay, a reverb with less pre-delay and no early reflections will sound bigger than one with early reflections and pre-delay, and the decay controls the time when the reverb is present.

Delay

A delay plugin makes the vocal sound with echoes, which can be used for a lot of things, like creating more space or connecting one phrase of the vocals to the next one.

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The main things in a Delay are the echo time and the feedback. The echo time is the time between each repetition of the echo, usually, it’s divided by fractions of a beat(1/4,1/8,1/16), and the feedback is the time that repetition is made, so if you put it all the way up it will be echoing forever.

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EchoBoy is the delay that I use, which as the reverbs I mentioned before, comes with presets, and also presets for vocals. You can use the same trick here, try some presets and once you find one you like, you can lower the mix knob in the bus channel so the effect isn’t so big.

The problem with Delays is that sometimes it will sound great with the mix knob turned almost down but too much if it’s all the way up, you can try the presets with the mix volume knob down and see if it make the vocal sound bigger and more clear.

Reverb and delay are used together, but I use first the delay and after that the reverb because the delay of the reverb is what makes the sound more spacious. This is called a pre-delay and reverb plugins already have it but you will get better results adding a delay before the reverb.

Delays can also be used to connect parts of the song to others, you can, for example, automate the feedback and have the echo time at 1/4 beat, so it sounds the echo of the last word of a phrase and you sustain that echo until the next phrase because you automated the feedback and you can turn it down when the next phrase begins, and everything will sound more connected. This is really useful if there is a lot of space between phrases that is not being completely filled by other instruments.

There are a lot of things you can make with delay and reverb, but if the plugins you are using have presets just with that, you can get the vocals to sound really good and professional.