MIXING SPIRITBOX "Circle With Me" VOCALS w/ Daniel Braunstein

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  • Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
  • Daniel Braunstein mixes Courtney Laplante's vocals in "Circle With Me" by Spiritbox using the raw multi-tracks
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  • @mandatoryusername42
    @mandatoryusername42 2 года назад +201

    I feel it's worth mentioning that access to these multitracks isn't as "instant" as you might think. Once you join the group, you'll need to pony up an extra $15 to unlock them.

    • @nenntmichbond
      @nenntmichbond 2 года назад +2

      You get the sessions for free that come up after your subscription

    • @mandatoryusername42
      @mandatoryusername42 2 года назад +66

      @@nenntmichbond That's true, but there are also sessions that cost extra to unlock, like this one. I don't have a problem with that, per se...I just thought people should know that before they signed up.

    • @firmansaragi498
      @firmansaragi498 2 года назад +5

      @@mandatoryusername42 thanks man.

    • @mandatoryusername42
      @mandatoryusername42 2 года назад +8

      @Daniel Neuwert Glad to help. As far as I know, it's just those two. That said, if you dig Spiritbox or any of the other "name" bands they have on offer (Godsmack, Meshuggah, Amaranthe, etc.), it might be worth it to you to unlock their songs.

    • @OnionKid2
      @OnionKid2 2 года назад +22

      Actually not that surprising that you're not getting like 50 songs + hours and hours and hours of content for 1$, right? ;)

  • @1siriuswolf
    @1siriuswolf 2 года назад +23

    Brilliant as usual.
    The vocal synth with the lower part 🔥

  • @JesusArmasOficial
    @JesusArmasOficial 2 года назад +18

    That sounds so beautiful man!
    Also, Courtney is such an amazing performer/vocalist.
    And the parallel processing you've added, definitely taking notes for future projects.
    Thanks for sharing!

    • @daoyang223
      @daoyang223 2 года назад

      I dont listen to Spiritbox. But does she scream?

    • @JesusArmasOficial
      @JesusArmasOficial 2 года назад +1

      @@daoyang223 she does scream too.

  • @heavenly2k
    @heavenly2k 11 месяцев назад +9

    Her voice is insanely good

  • @KRayxKodessA
    @KRayxKodessA 2 года назад +109

    doesn't hurt that she's got a fantastic voice either

    • @theopinson3851
      @theopinson3851 2 года назад +7

      Very true. The best producers in the world can’t polish a turd…you need good source material.

    • @eyeslikeoceans
      @eyeslikeoceans 2 года назад +4

      @@theopinson3851 The best producers can definitely polish turds. I have heard the worst digital drums turn into magic that you couldn't tell were computer made and garbage singers sounding perfect. You're definitely underestimating what talented producers can do.

    • @theopinson3851
      @theopinson3851 2 года назад +11

      @@eyeslikeoceans quantizing drums or correcting pitch is one thing. It can’t make up for bad tone or boring melodies. If you listen to a singer like Courtney she throws in all of these really cool subtle nuances like the glottal stops and breathy bits and chooses very interesting melodies. While a talented producer could probably coach through some of that the end result will not be the same.

    • @eyeslikeoceans
      @eyeslikeoceans 2 года назад

      @@theopinson3851 I'm not talking about quantizing or correcting pitch. Well, part correcting pitch I guess

    • @theopinson3851
      @theopinson3851 2 года назад +1

      @@eyeslikeoceans yeah I’d say that’s the most important way to polish, but if the imperfections are big it’s obvious and you get that “autotuned” sound. So if not pitch correction, what are you referring to?

  • @noahortega9908
    @noahortega9908 7 месяцев назад +1

    Working with a voice like hers is so sweet. Awesome techniques.

  • @wdjmo
    @wdjmo 2 года назад +8

    Super helpful. Those effects are killer.

  • @JacobraRecords
    @JacobraRecords 2 года назад +3

    one of the best vocal mixers in the metal game!

  • @Circaninesix
    @Circaninesix 2 года назад +7

    Wish y'all would turn up the signal from the DAW and turn down the mic of the mixer. I keep turning my speakers up to hear the tracks he's soloing to then have them blown out by an incredibly loud voice haha

  • @matenorth
    @matenorth 2 года назад +13

    You should have done an A-B with all inserts and sends against the dry track at once so we could hear the difference. The result is top-tier of course.

  • @RenanBEreanSound
    @RenanBEreanSound 2 года назад +6

    "normaly I just kind be lazy" hahaha story of my life

  • @xsonicassassinx
    @xsonicassassinx 2 года назад +4

    i didn't know anyone else was using gain reduction as like a little pre-boost thing. it's so good for that, especially during tracking

  • @theopinson3851
    @theopinson3851 2 года назад +8

    Love to hear the vocal tracks solo’d…you can really hear those nuances like the breathy flourishes. Also lmao@ “wide guy Courtney” 😂

  • @Nevertel
    @Nevertel 2 года назад +1

    This is gold! Seriously, thank you URM 🖤

  • @FestivaTheMan
    @FestivaTheMan 2 года назад +2

    Inspirational as all heck. Thanks URM! 🤜🔥💚🔥🤛

  • @andkellz
    @andkellz 2 года назад +2

    Amazing video, very cool effects.

  • @The_Collective_Group
    @The_Collective_Group 2 месяца назад

    Very Cool tips and tricks! THE SAUCE

  • @jaykarimi7123
    @jaykarimi7123 Год назад +1

    I liked this very much. Thank you for it. Only issue I had was the music/mix tracks are substantially lower than the talk over. lotsa me riding the volume knob to hear the example then lower the talk over.

  • @recordednowhere
    @recordednowhere 2 года назад +1

    thanks!! this is one of my favorite songs/productions as of recently 🔥 and having it laid out like that = awesome ❤️
    haha @ "chino" i could definitely hear that. sweet.

  • @endlesswind
    @endlesswind 2 года назад +1

    awesome ideas! Thanks a lot !!

  • @At_water_band
    @At_water_band 2 года назад +1

    she is so amazing

  • @eyeslikeoceans
    @eyeslikeoceans 2 года назад

    Daaaamn, that vocalsynth widening sounded sick!

  • @x3BobO
    @x3BobO Год назад +1

    Holy shit, just typed in this to see if I could find ANY info on the sound. And see here!!

  • @BlackSwan99x
    @BlackSwan99x 2 года назад +6

    Would love to have heard chorus...

  • @TempleGuitars
    @TempleGuitars Год назад +1

    Id love to hear the chain for the screamed parts

  • @captainconvulsion
    @captainconvulsion 2 года назад +1

    This kind of content should not be free 🙏🏻

  • @vertigopulse
    @vertigopulse 2 года назад +4

    Super helpful! What was the hardware tracking chain though? Im sure this was compressed and preamp saturated on the way in before the ns1 and AT print.

    • @jeremiahculver2776
      @jeremiahculver2776 2 года назад +2

      This is all done with UAD Apollo. An emulation of a distressor was used and

  • @francobuzzetti9424
    @francobuzzetti9424 2 месяца назад

    desser before the verb! noted

  • @TomMAF4
    @TomMAF4 2 года назад +4

    Weird picture title IMO considering that whether her voice is too soft doesn't ever seem to be a dilemma, it's the preserving it.

  • @hugowhite2883
    @hugowhite2883 Год назад

    Welp I'm gonna play with these ideas

  • @garcyuh
    @garcyuh Год назад

    Haha, so eye opening to see what goes in with just the vocal. How do engineers get this stuff live?

    • @thatswildokay
      @thatswildokay Год назад

      The vocalists use a chain of fx just like in the studio, same thing, different application usually with more automation.

  • @munton5150
    @munton5150 5 месяцев назад +1

    All that time I thought Mike was singing an octave below on stuff

  • @dreurquidi3917
    @dreurquidi3917 2 года назад

    What is the PT cycle sends macro? Thanks in advance! (By that i mean what is the macro for that)

  • @DivinityDown
    @DivinityDown 2 года назад

    just out of curiosity what are some possible alternative plugins to decapitator and gain reduction?

    • @darkstar8971
      @darkstar8971 2 года назад +3

      Just wait for the sale for the decapitator. They have them pretty often for like $30. Recently got the SSL NativeX Saturator, but forgot how much I paid for it. I like it.

    • @notanaltaccount
      @notanaltaccount Год назад

      Nani and rvox

  • @livecarsonreaction
    @livecarsonreaction 2 года назад +1

    "Wide guy Courtney"

  • @topherdavila2830
    @topherdavila2830 Год назад

    Very interesting what you do. Not into this mix, but I'll continue to watch content.

  • @Parcivals-Creations
    @Parcivals-Creations 2 месяца назад +1

    It’s a shame how many people here think every plugin that exists is spooky evil autotune

  • @ViceSquad
    @ViceSquad 2 года назад +4

    I cannot wait until AutoTune on Rock Vocals becomes so old fashioned that it is not used anymore... It will be a genuine treat to hear someone sing raw, passionately and with balls. Mixed with a little compression, EQ and reverb and to enjoy the singers unique phrasing and natural intonation just like the classic rock and metal vocalists did.

    • @LPVocals
      @LPVocals 2 года назад +2

      That will never happen. Autotune will be a fact of the industry long past our time is up. Maybe forever.

    • @vicesquadpunk
      @vicesquadpunk 2 года назад

      @@LPVocals here forever like McDonalds crappy happy meals and war 🇺🇸😊

    • @shredmore3049
      @shredmore3049 Год назад +3

      It is very likely the vocal track was still touched up with something like Melodyne before importing it into this project.

    • @vicesquadpunk
      @vicesquadpunk Год назад

      @@shredmore3049 not likely... definitely.. vocal correction is sterile and lacking in emotion. Rock and Metal bands put all the effort into playing guitar and drums brilliantly and forget to find truly great vocalists 🙁

    • @zachary963
      @zachary963 Год назад +3

      @@shredmore3049 I mean he stated it was printed with tuning, so yes.

  • @jorgezevallos4025
    @jorgezevallos4025 2 года назад

  • @ghostgore
    @ghostgore 4 месяца назад

    can i pay you to literally mix my cover of this song IM STRUGGLING SO MUCH ORGMFIOGHFDOHI

  • @zeenuf00
    @zeenuf00 Год назад

    Maybe. Let's use 50 plugins on it.
    😆

  • @rubysoffner4557
    @rubysoffner4557 2 года назад +8

    Thanks, all very useful!
    Can I ask you to stop the extreme hard gating on the voiceover, it makes listening to the voiceover rather exhausting with all the abrupt sound dropouts. A voice is not a djent guitar

    • @jeremiahculver2776
      @jeremiahculver2776 2 года назад +5

      I think it’s more to get out of the way so you can listen to the audio stream without background noise. It’s weird, but I think I’d rather no noise or hiss with stops than not ever hearing the clear audio from the DAW!

    • @skykrow
      @skykrow Год назад +1

      @@jeremiahculver2776 For being an audio engineer he seems to be pretty dogshit at audio mixing for the video lol. You can have good sounding audio and also not be in the way of the daw

  • @InnerSyncMusic
    @InnerSyncMusic 2 года назад

    This DAW looks like Cakewalk...What is?

  • @skykrow
    @skykrow Год назад +4

    This looks so over processed, like theres so many things going on that you can barely hear if even at all. like the low dude voice harmony.

    • @zachary963
      @zachary963 Год назад +3

      I think that’s the point. You aren’t supposed to hear the weird effects, they’re supposed to be just barely in there for the vibe.
      I do the same thing with my guitar tone. I often have chorus, tremolo, delay and reverb all going at the same time. But I don’t want to sound like an 80’s reject, so I keep them all really subtle. It’s hard to notice my effects until I actually turn them off and something I’d just missing.
      I’ll do the same thing tracking guitars. I usually have two guitars, one clean and one dirty, panned to stereo. And that’s what you’ll probably really hear. But then I add guitars with Big Muffs in the chorus, panned super wide. The Big Muffs have no mids and I keep them quiet, so you can’t really hear them, but even my wife can tell that something is just Missing without them. I’ll also sometimes put a noisy crazy guitar underneath, like a guitar with a Super Fuzz going through a hard tremolo and a big reverb with no predelay. By itself it just sounds like a mess, but 20 dbs under the rest of the tracks and it adds a subtle thickness and vibe. No one would hear it, let alone notice it, but even lay people can tell something’s wrong/missing when I take it out.

  • @Shadow0fd3ath24
    @Shadow0fd3ath24 Год назад +1

    her voice in one takes with just reverb do 90% of all this random extra BS he did

  • @pastainthesink1601
    @pastainthesink1601 2 года назад +1

    same vocal chain different settings on 3 tracks? damn automation never been shown to this fool

    • @zachary963
      @zachary963 Год назад +1

      I use this approach too. Why? Because imo it’s easier to tweak than automation.
      You set up the main sound, then duplicate the tracks, and mute the unused parts. Now you can tweak the settings in each section without messing with the DAW’s automation lanes. And the end result is exactly the same.

    • @TempleGuitars
      @TempleGuitars Год назад +3

      How many hit records have you produced over there with your 1 subscriber and no videos?

  • @blackmetalchemist
    @blackmetalchemist 2 года назад +4

    Other than some of the reverb to fill out a bit of vocal space and provide fullness, I seriously felt like 80-90% of what was done was completely unnecessary. There was SUCH a solid and clear recording that it felt like adding the "textures" just ruined the majority of the vocal performance and sounded inhuman.

    • @johnnyconcannon4483
      @johnnyconcannon4483 2 года назад +12

      I'm sure that you're gonna have Spiritbox in those DMs BEGGING you to mix the next one.

    • @VVVY777
      @VVVY777 2 года назад +7

      Sticking that dry vocal on the mix as is would get it swallowed up. He added harmonics to make it cut.

    • @blackmetalchemist
      @blackmetalchemist 2 года назад

      @@johnnyconcannon4483 whilst I appreciate the sarcasm, I never stated that I wanted them to. If the group is pleased with the overall performance, then so be it.

    • @blackmetalchemist
      @blackmetalchemist 2 года назад

      @@VVVY777 I'm not saying that he should have put it on there dry by any means, my apologies for thr misunderstanding. Compression, eq, rev/delay, that's all to be expected to shape the recording to cut and blend into the mix. Honestly, even using decapitator is something I'll do as well to add just a hair of low end body to vocals. Unfortunately, I'd link something I've done so im not speaking out my ass, but I tried digging up a few of my projects that I've worked on from Cambridge mixing library and I haven't a clue of where anything is. So I gotta remix everything.

    • @differentbutsimilar7893
      @differentbutsimilar7893 2 года назад

      I kinda felt the same about it... not just on this song either. Just from a listener's perspective, the vocals sound a bit overdone to me.

  • @josephharvey1762
    @josephharvey1762 9 месяцев назад

    I wonder how much autotune is on these

  • @MoreMeRecording
    @MoreMeRecording 2 года назад +9

    "autotune, given.." - such a sad state of affairs with today's music facts... 😐

    • @charizardmaster13
      @charizardmaster13 2 года назад +33

      Aututone isnt gonna make a crap vocal sound good. This is a fantastic performance out the gate the autotune is just a finishing touch on top to give it a bit of stability it still sounds human and emotional af to me

    • @MoreMeRecording
      @MoreMeRecording 2 года назад +9

      @@charizardmaster13 My point was exactly what I put in quotes and not about performance. I'll narrow it down to "given". When it's a "given" that you think you need to slap AT on a track, it's a sad reality of todays music, IMHO.

    • @charizardmaster13
      @charizardmaster13 2 года назад +2

      @@MoreMeRecording okay i can understand that if your not into using any autotune but i personally dont have any issues with it if it makes something sound better im all for it. Its like saying its a sad state of affairs with music because we put compressors on things or eq things. Its an effect to be used to enhance a vocal not fix one

    • @PleaseForgiveYourself
      @PleaseForgiveYourself 2 года назад

      @@MoreMeRecording LMFAO*PLEB*

    • @withinthrall1445
      @withinthrall1445 2 года назад +3

      @@charizardmaster13 I’ve seen her live without autotune and honestly to my ears it’s not the same. Yeah it still had emotion but it sounds artificially perfect to me. You have an amazing singer with an amazing dynamic range, and you end up losing that with autotune. He’s basically overcompressing the vocals. Not every voice needs autotune to enhance it and she’s not one of them. She sounds more robotic with it than without it.