But there is really no limit to the tricks and techniques out there for you to experiment with on your vocal tracks. These will often describe the type of room the sound is trying to mimic, i.e ‘hall’, ‘church’ or ‘room’.Īs with anything in music production you can stick a preset on or a stock plugin within the DAW which is a start. Many reverb plugins will come with presets that you can experiment with to get an idea of what sounds good. But in many cases you want the lead vocals to shine through and stand out as the main focal point of the track, in which case too much reverb may hinder that. This can sound really cool and may be what you are looking for in certain genres. This trend has calmed down slightly in recent years and people tend to mix with slightly more subtle reverb on vocals now.Ī problem with adding huge amounts of big room reverb onto a lead vocal is that it can make them sound quite distant.
That will allow you to adjust the level of the effect and will also save a lot of computing power because you can send multiple tracks through the same reverb channel.īack in the 90s, many vocal tracks used to have a lot of reverb treatment in an attempt to make them sound ‘huge’. With all the techniques of adding effects below, I recommend creating separate tracks (i.e a reverb track) and then sending the vocals/ drums/other instruments through that track. Doing it this way allows a lot more control and you can really get the exact amount of effect for each track just right. This is handy as most of us are recording vocals in a small room such as a bedroom which probably has soft furnishings and carpets so the amount of natural reverb is going to be very low. One without any reverb, delay or echo and then applying the effects after in the mixing process.
So instead you are best off recording a ‘dry’ vocal. But this more traditional method is not usually favoured in the modern day recording process, and let’s be honest, as musicians in the home studio we are unlikely to be able to record in a church whenever we want to lay down a vocal track…
You can record vocals in a room with natural reverb or echo to create the effects, i.e go into a church to record loads of reverb.
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