Tips for Mixing Hard Rock Vocals by Joe Barresi
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Mixing vocals (lead & background) to have depth and excitement while planting "ear candy" across the track. Hard rock producer/mixing engineer Joe Barresi shares his vocal mixing techniques. Learn more from Joe: www.waves.com/...
When & What:
0:10 - Reverse Vocal Reverb: Old Trick, New Twist
5:00 - Mixing Lead Vocals with Delay
8:08 - Mixing Background Vocals
Waves plugins used in this video:
• Renaissance Vox - www.waves.com/...
• Abbey Road Plates - www.waves.com/...
• S1 Stereo Imager - www.waves.com/S1
• H-Delay - www.waves.com/...
• Reel-ADT - www.waves.com/...
• MetaFlanger - www.waves.com/...
• GTR3.5 - www.waves.com/...
• L2 Ultramaximizer - www.waves.com/L2
• Renaissance DeEsser - www.waves.com/...
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Music: “Mercury Gift” by Zico Chain
Also check out Joe's ProSound Workshop: www.prosoundwor...
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The more of his videos I watch, the more I'm realizing why I love The End So Far so much. It's such an all around great album.
I went and listened to this song on iTunes, and my lord this band is good. The production is also very good. And this video was very informative thank you for all your efforts to help others learn. Thumbs up 👍👍
His work on Chevelle’s records is HIGHLY understated.
Awesome work Joe. I love how you turn the vox mixing stage into another instrument to make it explode. Thanks for the tips.
Damn. Joe Barresi. Hitting us with the big knowledge. What a Don!!
Amazing how the gtr changes the sustain of the backing vocals. Without the rest it just sounds bad and like actually unwanted stuff but in the whole mix it just creates it‘s own athmosphere. Amazing!
As much as I love Joe and Waves, can't help but be disappointed because he stayed out of showing his Eq/compression on the lead vocals.
That’s literally all I wanted to see lol
Yeah, screw everything else he did. I need to know some settings.
The EQ would depend on the singer and for compression put a FET compressor first in the chain with 8 to 10 dbs of compression dial it in on the quiet sections, you can always back it off if it's too much then at the end of the chain put an Opto compressor. You can put a de-esser first or after the FET whatever works best for your plugins. A lot of people will roll off the low end at 100hz or so with an eq before the FET so you're not compressing unusable frequencies. Key ranges for vocals can be found in articles on the web but a few are 2.2K to get the vocal to cut through, 1.5K if it's nasally sweep around there and cut to taste, 7.2K is another range to play with. In addtion you can side chain the vocal or mult it to another compressor and you can dip a little at 2.2K on any instruments that take up space there so the vocal can cut through. I'm a former major label remixer.
Fav producers/engineers/mixer G.O.A.T
Just tried this reverse effect on my session... It was awesome
Nice trick putting the imager after the reverb to control the size of the reverb.
Ha I've watched a ton of videos shot at Barresi's place and only just now noticed the Turbonegro sticker. Awesome awesome band
I love RUclips so much.....This is the perfect chance to learn brilliant lessons of production given by the big guys in the industry !!!!!
These guys are the real legends!
Wow...this is a lot of great ear candy!
So good to watch these from Joe every now and then! Such amazing records under his belt!! Lovely yet simple and bare bone effective stuff!
I love how he keeps referencing the number of the beast in this jesus type track.
William Lassen Yea it’s like he’s cursing the track!
And he does it with a little sly grin too. Of course now I'm going to have to work with 3's and 6's, MAIDEN!!!
Hilarious, I love when people try to disrespect other's beliefs. But in the end, Jesus destroys Satan with just His words. Which is much more metal than the joke.
@@rchayes1996 go join your flock, pastor.
@@stormcorrosion176 Sure, I'll go while listening to Impending Doom. Probably much heavier music than this tool has ever mixed.
he's a beast
you know mr Joe barresi if you high light the channel you can by pass all plugins by holding shift and a and it will bypass all plugins on that channel at the same time thought I share that with you. I really like what you did with the guitars on the other video thank you for the videos
the drums sounds killer!
Great video! Joe is incredibly inspiring! Side note: You can tell where they edited this video, its right before he compares plugs to the analog domain LOL!
Joe I'd love to see a video from you on building more density for chorus vocals and I'd love to see your opinion on how the NLS could give you that channel differentiation in a mix you mentioned in this video.
This man is a real Magician.
Speaking as a Christian, I will be stealing the number of the beast trick.
Thnx Joe!!!!!
Or you could try the 777 trick ;)
Maestro 😈
The Pot trick!!
Sweet jesus that backwards delay sounds nice
Half the number of the beast \m/
Go on Chris ya mad manc. ZICO CHAIN!!
So when mixing, according to an associate of mine, and rightfully so, my vocal mixing is too “clean” for the rock style sound I’m going for, anybody have tips to add some grunge or grit?
Try abbey road saturator which works wonders on vocals imho
King's mics, Butch Vig or any other saturator in parallell, as well as som extra input gain on a 1073 as the first plug on your lead vox chain. UAD's 1073 is really good. I sometimes even use some tube drive from Hornet Valvota to round of some sharpness and give some subtle tube drive. If you mostly use Waves, you can try NLS channel, and just drive that sucker. I really like the Neve color for vocals. Also Heat on Pro Tools can do wonders if you set it to PRE and adjust the vocal clip gains to saturate more or less. :)
Guys, sorry but the Abbey Road Plates plugin was released around 2015 or 16. How can it be used on a track that was mixed and released in 2012 ?? (Please correct me, if I'm wrong.)
You're not wrong at all!
However, let me explain ...
In Sept. of 2018 [possibly earlier], to promote their products, Waves Audio provides Joe Barresi with the "Mercury Gift” master tracks [originally Engineered/Produced by the Zico Chain in 2012], and asks him to do a *live-mix-for-video* of the track -- and to use their [or his favorite] plugins... a plugin that was released in Q1 2016, [which is roughly around 940 days or so since this video was published...].
Hope that explanation wasn't too convoluted? as I tend to over-complicate explanations... most of the time... when I explain things... I complicate them...
Wow!!! ❤️
Love the video's with Joe!! I hope there are many more video's like this coming
Wow i mean this is called experience,by crossing the boundaries to create the effects...
Reminds me System Of A Down - Spiders
what software they u use plz
funny how this massive mix has nothiung but waves plugins i have the entire waves bundle but i dont use them like that GOD DAMN
Watch this playlist, it has some ideas that might be useful: ruclips.net/p/PLZzOkcjBJVLyEPk49uJ3SsjdVNnOjpfvS
@@AmagrasMUSIC thats awesome dude ! Thanka
@@exortor Did you just thank yourself for a post? LOL
@Joe
What?
Great guitars (instrument), great amps, great acoustic treated room FIRST. Plugins only enhance what you recorded. Even if you use best amp simulations, you have to use best guitar (like PRS, Jackson) and tweak a lot with IR's. Plugins are last chain element.
All best!
Sounds amazing!
Joe, this is a super informative video. Thanks! You mention several times "inside the box". Please explain what this means. Appreciated.
“In the box” refers to staying inside the computer and using plugins as opposed to outboard (often analog) effects which is referred to as “out of the box”
This is a totally random question but what kind of computer monitor is that? I’ve seen a handful of producers using it and at first I thought maybe it was from a specific console manufacturer but I’ve seen the same monitor on different consoles. Is there anything special about it?
No, it’s just an old Apple monitor - and most people produce on a Mac.
@@kwyman986 It may have taken a year, but thank you! Lol
@@jeffhurn5369 ha, no problem! Wasn’t sure how relevant the question would be a year later 👍
is that overdrive for distortion or saturation?
I’m getting Rvox!! And abbey road Reverb
Mac Joseph One of the best plugins ever
Broderick Duffy hands down!!
I fail to see how Joe creates "depth" by panning the backing vox cluster? I assume he means width.
cant wait for the new Tool album
It's not a band I've ever listened too, but this sounds great, what's a good tool album to listen to for a tool newbie..
@@PB72UK Undertow or Aenima
Evan Ward I'll check them out thnx
@@PB72UK Brace yourself!
Listening to Lateralus right now... Good stuff!
IDOSO EU TE AMO CARA
What!?
Wish i couldve spent my time studying this and alot of others. I understand most of it but ive got questions upon questions. Why this? Why there? Why so many different apps? Knowledge baby you cant beat it with a stick.
There might not be a good answer to those questions. Maybe he picked a certain plugin because that's the way he was feeling when he woke up that morning ;)
Cool video thanks, but how the hell did he created that Reverse Reverb track? I cant figure it out, it always end up in a mess.... someone know? In cubase 10
Ryandron Lendrim I’m guessing the vocal track is reversed in the daw and adds reverb delay
@@mikedixon8830 thanks i will try! 😅
Good tutorial. SUPER douchy vocals.
Come teach me bro!
No parallel on vocals?
Goes to show the song writing matters more then anything. No amount of special effects eq'ing or anything else will make an average song great.
You shouldn't say whats obvious
Its not so obvious to everyone though, like you for example, you can't write songs so you spend more time making things sound good.
Half the number of the beast! Hahahaha ,😀
Mixing masterclass.... Yhmm
'' I use only SSL console. Yhmm.
What are you doing now?
Business is business
I love that another dude commented "what?" Because your comment is a series of unrelated sentences 🤣 wtf u on about m9?
Name music?
Look the experience . What he did to the backs vox ( GTR ) 😰😰😰😰
song?
Mercury gift by Zico Chain
why the number 666 or 333?? some beliefs.... i guess his bank account is 666,666 then
He said it on the video. 666 is his favourite number, «The number of the beast», and the 333 the half of that. Great mixing techniques and plugins from waves, although that «numerical» stuff I found it totally out of place.
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As good as Joe is, he was the wrong choice for Tool. They should have stuck with Bottrill.
Nice but this is not Hard Rock!!!!
Just curious - have you heard the actual song? And what would you call hard rock? What makes this not hard rock? Personally, after listening to the song off the CD (and being a lifelong metal fan) I'd have to call this hard rock. I'm not just trying to disagree with you, I'm just curious about your perspective. I've somewhat recently come to the realization that what I've thought of as metal for my whole life is all actually subgenres of "extreme metal" so now I'm second-guessing the hardness of all the music I listen to haha.
Tool for Jesuses 😆
tips...use plug ins
ok
This video is just one giant Waves ad, no real teaching going on. Shame
I feel like 95% of people who listen to music don't care about most of this stuff and don't hear the difference. Why is this job so important?
Because you do notice, more than you realise. You don't think you do, then you listen to something with a really bad production job, and you realise how important this job actually is. A shoddy mix absolutely kills a track, no two ways about it
@@ashleyclacy8879 thanks a lot for your response
Consciously the average listener has no idea, but subconsciously they can tell a good mix from a bad one.
Too much magic post processing, no wonder many bands sound worse live than in the studio
mix sounds really muddy to me. Not a fan
Im beginning to get bored of these waves videos. I understand that you are selling plugins but there is no way that you are really using these plugins like that in your final mix. Mastering will bring up the inaudible parts of that and it will sound very bad.
Stop watching them if you're so "bored" with them.
Wtf lol
mastering will bring your mum up
These plugins are actually what these guys use.... dumbass.
Well, I wouldn't be surprised if Joe didn't use Waves plugins all THAT much in real life but hey, how many of you out there make a living as a sound engineer ? Well, those who do, myself included, know the struggle. Now let's imagine a company like Waves approaches and you makes you a pretty bad ass deal to showcase their plugins in a creative and usable way (which Joe does). Would you say no ? I know I wouldn't. This is as sincere as I can be :)