Vocal mixing and recording guides
- How to Sound Like Don Toliver: The Vocal Chain, Step by Step
Hard tuning, stacked harmonies, a bright top end and a wide, filtered space. Here's how to build that sound on your own vocal, step by step.
- How to Get the Travis Scott Vocal Sound: Autotune, Distortion and Space
Hard tuning, grit, dark psychedelic space and ad-libs everywhere. A step-by-step chain for that sound, from recording to the final throws.
- How to Mix Rap Vocals: A Step-by-Step Vocal Chain That Works
Clean, loud and in your face: the chain we use on rap vocals, in order, with settings to start from and the mistakes that make vocals sound amateur.
- How to Record Vocals at Home: Mic, Room and Levels
The recording decides how good the mix can get. How to set up your mic, fix your room for free, set levels and get takes that are easy to mix.
- Vocal EQ Cheat Sheet: Frequencies, Cuts and Boosts (Plus De-essing)
Where mud, boxiness, harshness, esses and air live, and what to do about them. A practical EQ map for male and female vocals, plus de-essing.
- How to Sound Like Lil Uzi Vert: Bright, Tuned and Right in Your Face
Hard tuning, a bright, upfront tone, stacked hooks and ad-libs everywhere. How to build that energy into your own vocal chain.
- How to Sound Like The Weeknd: Smooth Vocals, Lush Reverb and 80s Space
Smooth, polished and floating in a big 80s space. How to build that lush vocal sound: gentle tuning, stacks, warmth and reverb that never gets in the way.
- How to Sound Like Playboi Carti: Baby Voice, Distortion and Rage Vocals
The high 'baby voice', raw distortion and chaotic ad-libs. What's performance, what's processing, and how to build that rage vocal chain.
- Vocal Compression Settings: Ratio, Attack, Release and Gain Reduction Explained
Ratio, attack, release and gain reduction, explained with starting settings for rap, pop and R&B, plus why two or three gentle compressors beat one heavy one.