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Good day! Why do your tracks look like this as if they were super compressed?

This is so useful Joe, thank you. I'm currently working on a song and you've given me some great ideas to mix things up a bit. I'd already added a harmony to V2 but it's still not enough. I was going to just live with it, but not now I've watched this video!!!

If you can't get it sounding great dry. FAGETABOUTIT

In my case, I recorded a scratch vocal take 6 years ago. Never meant to keep it or even finish the song but after hearing it recently, I realized it’s the best most genuine vocal performance I’ve ever done. But because it’s a scratch take, it’s pitchy. Also, I can no longer hit the notes I hit, as I’m older now so I couldn’t redo it if I wanted to. So I’m happy to tune it. But my waves tune doesn’t work on my new Mac so here I am.

Nice video

Yes. Hundreds

Not fully correct approach how you tune vocals, but thanks for the video.

Hey It will be awesome if you could answer this question also: how come my little in-ear headphones have a frequency response reaching to 10 hz and my 7 inch monitors reach only down to 40hz, although they are massively bigger physically, what’s going on?? Thanks 🙏

If the singer takes off one (headphone) ear, see if you can pan the headphone mix to one side, to avoid spilling audio (i.e. click track etc.)

Make sure the balance is to one side. Cant have track bleed.

I use ear pods. No bleed. Then I use construction sound proof headsets to make 100% chance of no bleed. Then I turn the volumes down. My vocal up. There is a fine line but definitely music lower. Whala!!

Thanks a lot for your "5 step mix guide" PDF and extra resourses links inside it. 😃😃😃🙃😉😊

TRY TELLING THIS TO LIVE SOUND GUYS... their vocals always sound like they are coming out of a shoe box

Excellent content. I really love how you take us step by step and show the results after each step, helps train the ear. I like the simplicity of the approach too. The results are really good considering how few plugins you used. I'd love a video about parallel compressions. Do you prefer to use a mix knob or a send? When WOULDN'T you use parallel compression on a vocal? Thanks!

Here's a lil secret.. something I've watched over and over by other people... what's different?

Love this channel. Home Studio Corner is one of three mixing channels that I will immediately click on when they come up in my feed. Joe, you're an excellent teacher. I've learned so much from you. Thank you.

Listen to music is normally desire. A mix can sound great when desire to hear it and sound less inspiring without desire. The trick is knowing when it's as good as you can mix it. But learning how to mix makes you think it can always be better

For those here for the clickbait - he's saying make verse 2 and chorus 2 different from their firsts..

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Problem is , show me your hit records that have hit Billboard and charted??? Exactly you have none.. that is why you are running around doing the things 'about' music and not actually performing. for an aspiring Performer if they perfect their craft and focus on it. they focus on it and sell a shit ton of albums, merch and tour in big venues. not all the doggety side music stuff you are talking about here.. but you cannot call yourself an artist if you haven't broken those barriers.. you are just talking.. that is all.

Embarrassing singing story incoming. The first time I sang a lead vocal I was about 20. It was a variety show at youth group with an audience of about 400 and I sang "The River Will Flow," by Whiteheart. I had practiced the song until I knew I couldn't get it wrong and I had an A3 sheet on the floor with the first couple of words from each line as prompts, just to make sure. Rehearsals went off without a hitch because I knew the song inside out, upside down, and backwards. So, on the night, the band starts playing and the first line disappears out of my head like it was sucked out by a vacuum. I then look down at my prompt sheet and I'm suddenly dyslexic. I don't mean to offend anyone who may actually have dyslexia by exaggerating, but the words literally jumbled up in front of my eyes. The piano player was trained at the Conservatory of Music in Sydney and an amazing musician and singer and when he saw me struggling, jumped in and sang the first line. That was enough of a prompt for me to get the second line, but when it came to the third line, everything went out of my head again and the same thing happened with the prompt sheet. I ended up singing about 5 lines of the verses and bridge, although I managed the chorus okay. When the song finished, I walked over to the side of the stage, sat on the stairs, and recited the song in my head, word for word. I sang backing vocals after that, but I wouldn't sing lead on anything for another 20 years, when I was asked to sing as part of the Worship team at church. What's more, I turned 54 last week and later this year I'll be releasing my second solo album called, "The Heart and the Melody," an album of songs written for my kids and granddaughter. The reason I say this is because I want to encourage people to push past the embarrassing incidents and follow their dreams. Don't wait 20 years to get back on the horse!

Good menu there!

Which is best to do when you have tracks from various sources, all different levels and want to have them all around the same level. Each track has their own issues with their highs and lows .So I want to be sure the highs dont cause distortion but also dont want the lows to be too faint. I thought normalization is the key but it seems it might only solve the clipping aspect.

Absolutely awesome video

This just popped up on my feed and I Saw Waves and PT’s and thought what has Joe done?

Never understood the term “pitchy”. It’s like describing the weather as “temperaturey”.

Hey Joe, how would you go about making a mono acoustic guitar sound fuller without necessarily making it sound stereo? Im working on a song with a mono acoustic guitar until after thr first chorus where i have doubles recorded and panned hard left and right for width to create contrast with what came before. Hiw would you make the mono acoustic sound full and not thin, yet not huge wide stereo?

Every time that I see you in the hat I can't help but think that you don't look very hardcore as that is the design of many Hardcore scene logos ever. The N(ew Y(ork) H(ard) C(ore) in the X being the most famous.

Yes I’m a songwriter and I’ve written 200+ songs already and counting because I’m not done

Studiolive 3 has same issue with network card...suddenly computer cannot recognize the hardware...then need to replace network card...but it will happen again and again...

Thank you, Joe!

I have seen some of these RUclips videos on Why Top Down Mixing is dangerous or another where the Producer said it's like skipping leg day at the gym. Clearly they have no idea what Top-Down mixing actually is.

Thank you!

You have a great attitude when teaching! Whenever I get stuck when recording acoustic guitar I always seem to land on your videos! 🫵🏼👍🏻

Dear Joe, thank you very much for this once again great video. It is always a challenge for me: the headphone mix. I find endless videos on how to set it, but I was always disappointed. My voice was always too quiet when recording, because I had always set the mix like the master mix. I still hit the right tones but I always lack the modulation, the feeling and the timbre in the voice. As I said, I've never seen a video addressing this problem, thank you for your support

Great tip with compression!

I played in my first band when I was fourteen. The first time we played live I broke the high E string on my guitar . Instead of continuing the set playing "Keith Richard's style" (which I didn't learn about until years later), I stopped playing and tried to get the rest of the band to stop the song because "I couldn't play with a broken spring!" It never dawned on me that this might happen, so I never carried new strings with me. Luckily, we were playing in a Battle of the Bands, so a friend from another band loaned me his guitar. Unfortunately, I didn't realize it was woefully out of tune so we sounded terrible for the rest of our set. Learned a couple of valuable lessons that night about playing live. No matter what happens (1) NEVER STOP PLAYING UNTIL THE SONG IS OVER and (2) ALWAYS HAVE A BACKUP PLAN.

Good explanation. I prefer to keep my cymbals out of the equation and contain parallel compression to kick, snare, toms at varying levels.

Another tip for IEMs specifically, would be to cut out a good amount of the low-end from the vocals since they’re already hearing their own skull’s resonance and that’s what the biggest issue is for singers and IEMs. helps turn the vocal up a bit extra and feel more balanced for them. Maybe throw in a little room reverb for a less claustrophobic feel.

Ive learnt i dont have to hear everything as long as i can feel it. Most times its the feeling. And i feel it😊

Ha, ha, man. The same thing happened to me years ago. I was listening to my final product in my brother's big audio system with a question mark on my face: How can I frigging make this thing sound louder? Till I found out just what you just said. I'm not alone. Thanks again.

Anaheim House of Blues, started singing in the wrong key. The rest of the band played the correct key. But that’s ok cause MTV was there capturing it for the whole world…😂😂😂

Compression on monitor vocals is a huge no-no for me. Great way to blow your voice. Better idea is to compress the overall band track and sing on top of that

One thing I like to do, is to have verse 1 'fuller' than the first half of verse 2. Then (normally after some kind of drum fill) halfway into verse 2, return to the 'fuller' sound for the second half. I also, quite often, strip back the final chorus to 'bare bones' for part of it, before throwing everything (plus more) back in. It works really well, especially if you end on a double chorus. Great vid, as always, dude. 😉

Thank you very much for this information, it is very useful. But I think that before building acoustic panels, you have to be in a house or a building where the electrical cables are insulated. Is it true ?

I use the open-back headphones choice for my own vocals. You do get bleed, obviously, but a few quick edits (or a decent gate) gets it sorted. And, yes, 'swimmingly' is a thing, here in the UK... 🤣

all these years later, and you still saved my butt.. thanks!