Hey, what's going [on] out there? [I'm] sean devine today. I've got a new tutorial for you all and it's for the cubase users
We're going to be mixing [a] hip-hop verse from scratch
We are using the divine mixing template one is a template I built for cubase logic and [pro] [tools]
[but] what I've done is I've [just] taken off all of the plugins on
Our aux tracks, and I'm going to show you how everything's routed this song is called heart on my sleeve
It's by cicely and Jonathan long featuring Jay Parker Jay parker is the verse [that] we're going to be mixing
Specifically so be [sure] and check them out, but let me just play back the verse for you
And you're going to notice that [this] signal is really quiet
The beats mixed right now, and it's loud, so I'm going to turn up the pregame just so you can hear the verse
But just to give you an idea of what we're dealing [with] dry. So here we go
Can every come a little harley but you're not pretty god coming to be myself again said about believe you
We're browsing me being true to myself even if you can't be what he does now help me
It's put me where I need to be trying to see where I'll be covered. What if she goes? What is your motive [bet]?
I'll be killing alone top of the gullies, but [God] I know what [I] know it
There's no trouble [foetus], so I'll just keep going no lager afraid what you think that you noticed?
I can't live on tightrope [Deny]
[no] that guy goes in [agra] wherever you want me to go with so where we might go by the end of the world I?
Can feel what he wanted I?
Ain't Gonna fake who I am on my father's is advance to show you how much that he needs it
I [wanna] be honest or mango
[I] Ii think you can that you can see myself
But I'm taking the honest and broken the [turk] in the [search] and assert in the file a missing phone well
[what] I feel like you watch me up you [how] [do] [I] [be] me but I feel like the county
Kind of a see what I feel like you watch me, how do I be me when I feel like [toffee] [sauce]?
It's nothing to me
All right
So you probably noticed there's a couple of spaces in [here] where there were actually ad-libs [that] Jay did to fill in these spaces?
We're not going to be looking at those today. We really just want to deal with the main
Verse vocal and getting that to sit right with our beat, which is already mixed
so let's go ahead and the first thing that we want to do is just kind of
take a look at the the wave we've got a clean signal here and
Again, you probably noticed that it is a quiet signal in comparison to the mixed beat. That's okay
What I really stress to those of you who are tracking yourself or even if you're in a studio?
back off the preamp
[you] want to get a nice healthy signal going into the print?
But don't push it so hard to try to hear yourself or you're tracking that's a common mistake
and what happens is you end up distorting the preamp or
you're just not getting a
Signal that is [a] healthy in the green
So if you need to hear yourself better turn it up like I just did with the gain in the d aw
Something maybe even on the compressor you can put a compressor on and just up the gain just so that you can hear it
but make [sure] that you're not affecting the actual level going to the preamp so
Anyways, we have a nice healthy signal this was recorded well
We're going to do some
[pre-processing] on it before we start getting into the heavy stuff
One thing I do want to point out is that cubase has a handy channel strip?
specifically in cubase pro now and
a lot of the plugins I'm going to use as inserts you can actually just use the channel strip and
Select them so if you want to do that
It's really handy, but just for consistency let's deal with inserts today
So the first thing we want to do here is just go ahead and do some pre Eq
Cubase has a very handy pre Eq section right here on the equalizer
You've got a high cut and a low cut so we're going to use those controls just to roll off [some] of the lows
Extreme lows that we don't need and some of the other just problematic areas that we might not want to send
To our compression and other effects on the channel
So let's just play it back and take a look at what's going on in the frequency spectrum
Give me a better paper on penalty
Everything that I was not a relative can every chemist or the hog will be ganados funny
Go coming to be myself again
[then] I've got me a view but about me and me be the true to myself even if you can't be what do you guys?
Know [honey]. She does know me. [it's] [uh] me where I need to be
So we can see there's some extreme low stuff
I mean all the way below 100 down to like 20 hertz we don't need any of that
in our vocal is just going to interfere, so we're going to go ahead and turn on the
Low-cut and
I'm going to switch the cue over here to 48. So we've got a steep curve, and then we're just going to bring this up
to
about 120 or so
Jimmy's a better paper on pedaling everything that I was taught
[oh], brother business, and every come up to the heart is big enough funny. [God's] coming to be myself again
What about me [and] you [hear] [me] really true to myself even if you can't see what he does now
he'll tell me where I need to be so we'll go a little bit higher we're going to be at
150 just listening to it
I think that takes out a lot of the problematic areas here, so we'll roll with that the next thing
I want to do is put a gate. This is going to be the the [first] thing on our insert channel is a noise gate
To get rid of any kind [of] headphone bleed
[I] don't hear a ton, but this is just good practice with your hip-hop vocals if you've got any noise things in between
The signal want to get rid of that so I'm going to solo it. Give me a pen and paper
I'm peddling everything that I will start irrelevant and every time I struggle Hob will begin knowledge funny good
so let's go over [to] one of the quieter sections over here, so we can [really] pick up the
Headphone bleed or any noise. See what he wanted us
Ain't got a fake quiet. So you can hear that headphone bleed. So we're going to go ahead and
Put a noise gate on here the first insert on our mixer track
So the way that I have this stuff routed is
On our mixer instead of using inserts which a lot of you have seen are [just] putting a bunch of inserts on each audio track
It's not a very efficient way of doing things
So in the template which this is divine mixing to put one that I have set [up]
I already have some effects tracks group tracks Box tracks however. You want to call them
[setup], so I've got one for verse a which is going to be that main layer that we're [looking] at and then I have a
Reverb in a delay which we'll talk about here in a little while
But we want to make sure first that we're routing
The output to that effects track or aux track so it's going to verse a and then we're going to do our
processing our inserts all that fun stuff on
that track
So let's go ahead and pull [up] the gate which I didn't mention earlier. We're going to be using all stock
cubase plugins, so let's pull up the gate and
Then we'll start adjusting this we're going to pull the threshold back
Because if we have it too high what's going to happen is the gate is going to attenuate
Parts of the signal that we don't want it to attenuate. Where are we going? What is your goals?
What is your motive [then] I'll be feeling doses probably it's going to sound like [that]. So we need to pull it back
And let's go to maybe like 40 see what he wanted us
Ain't got a fake hole so you can notice right [there] it attenuated the headphone bleep see what he wanted us
That's without and what he would he wanted us
Ain't Gonna fake who I am I must work as a manager to show you how much said he means it
I want to be honest, so I'm letting go I said basic and that you can say myself
But I'm singing to honest and broken up so once we have the gate set to remove that
Unnecessary signal we want to go to some of the quieter spaces and make sure that the gate isn't again
Attenuating parts [are] [very] signal so it's good
I'm here you watch me [uh] and how do I be me when I feel like I'm just a copy
How do I speak when I feel like you watch me?
[uh] how do I be me when I feel like I'm just a copy oh
So that sounds pretty good
I think that's a good setting [for] our gate
And just a good general practice of gating or noise gating your hip-hop vocal
So next let's go back to our
Sex track and the next plug-in in the chain is going to be our compression, so we'll go ahead and we'll select
one of the compressors from
Steinberg cubase and
In this case we're going to use the vintage compressor
This is something that I dug up while I was putting together this template, and I really like the tone of it
it's got a nice sound and
so I also need to go back to the mixer and I'm going to turn off that pre gain that we had on the
actual track
Just so that
You all could hear it more easily. [we're] going to do our gain on the input of the compressor
We don't want it going that hot into the compressor itself
Just generally better practice to use the input gain on the compression
so go there and
Let's see what it's doing. Give me a pen and paper. I'm pedaling
God coming to be myself again said about thank you
but about the M&E being true to myself even if you can't see what do you guys know up you just want to adjust the
Input gain until we start seeing a little bit of gain reduction
Over here on our display
[Kimmy's] up and We're going to set the ratio to
4 2 1 4 2 1 is usually a good hip-hop setting again it depends on the recording
but I like to use 4 [2] 1 [5] and [1]
Typically [Kimmy's] a better paper on pedaling everything that I was got irrelevant can every time I saw the [harwood] begin not funny
God would tell me to be myself again set about behavior
but about the enemy being true to myself you can anything now attack and release I
Usually will use a very fast attack on hip hop
You can adjust this again to taste depending on how you want it to react with your consonants your transients of your vocal
But I'm going to set it to fast and then the release time typically 200 to 400 is
pretty safe for a Hip-hop vocal Kimeta pen and paper on pedaling [but]
Everything that I [was] [thought] [of] relative and every temperature the hog will begin itís funny garbage coming to be messed up again
[well] being you but out here me being true to myself keeping it you can't see what he does now
Huh me does now. Help me [is] put me where I need to be I'm trying to see where are we covered?
What if she goes what is your motive get off it feeling so after we've got the compressor set you want to go to
some of the other parts of your vocal especially if you've got something really dynamic
Like this one where we have some louder spaces some quieter spaces
And we want to make [sure] that the compressor is just not freaking out. We have quieter stuff or louder stuff
It needs to be consistent [and] with this one. We [don't] have a threshold control because it's a quote vintage style
Compressor, but it shouldn't pose any surprises. I think it'll be fine
Let's just go down here the choir section and make sure it's consistent
It's approaching the [church] in the section 230 the bottom with a megaphone well
When I feel like you watch me [um] and how do I be me when I feel like I'm just a copy
Kind of a sweet, but I feel like you watch me. Uh how do I [bring] me when I feel like just a [piece]. Oh
three
So that sounds [pretty] good. We're in the pocket and
Relative to the beat level. I think that's a good compression setting for now
We may come back to it, but let's go ahead and move on to the next effect on
Our track and that's going to be Eq
Specifically additive Eq so before we were doing deductive Eq or we're getting rid of the parts of the signal we don't want to be?
Compressing and now we want to move on to
enhancing or increasing
Frequencies that we want to bring out on the vocal so what I like to do with [my] hip-hop vocals is heavily boost
Some of the [high-end] to give it that nice present presence that nice air in the vocal
So let's go ahead and select the studio Eq in cubase and I'm going to boost up here
generally around
9k to 11k 11 K would be more for a female vocal
But just somewhere in there to give it that nice presence, and then we'll probably use another curve just to roll off
Some of the stuff up up here at 20k. [so] we'll do a nice
Steep Q there
And again, we're going to be boosting pretty heavy, so let's see. It's imposing the turk intersection assert in the [funk]
They make it funky well
When I feel like you watch me um and how do I be me when I feel like just a copy?
Kind of a seat when I feel like you watch me. [uh] how do [I] be me when I feel like just two copies. Oh
Except in the mix we're boosting about 8 DB pretty heavy, and you're going to notice that it's not ready to go
Right now because it is sibilant
We've made it a little bit harsh, but what I do is I couple this with a de-esser. It will be the next effect in
Our channel strip here
So let's go ahead and put that on here and that heavy boost in tandem with the de-esser is how we achieve a nice smooth
presence and top-end
So we're going to go back and go under dynamics de-esser
And let's hear what that's doing. It's broken a turkey in a structure [to] start in the front with a megaphone well
What I feel like you watch me up, and how do so I'm just adjusting the filter
This is the way that the dancer is detecting the sibilants frequency
Appropriate a turkey and a search and a 13-2 probably make a pumpkin well
When I feel like you watch me um and how do I be me when I feel like just a copy?
kind of a sweet when I feel like you watch me a
Kawaii being me it's been broken the turk intersection [assert] in the final they look [about] well
When I feel like you watch me up
And how do I be me it kind of [faked] who I am on my [tour]?
This is [advance] show you how much [daddy] means it I want to be honest or mango. I said thank you
Can that you can [say] myself?
That's worth is without a kind of fake [who] I am [I] [must] focus is a [man]
So you have my city needs it?
I want to be honest
[tornado] a second face thinking that you can see myself ain't gonna say who I am on my tour
This is advance show you how much said he needs it
I want to be honest or may go a second [facing] in that you can see myself
Without checking the honest and broken the turn in a search in a certain to follow they make it function well
So just smooth things out pretty nicely
The next thing that I want to do is
Put a brick wall limiter here since we're boosting things pretty heavily just to get it competing with the beat
I want to make sure that we're not hitting the bus too hard
We're not you know distorting or clipping the other bus which shouldn't be an issue
But just in case let's pull out the the brick wall limiter
And we're just gonna set this threshold up here
They kind of take who I am on my toes is [advance] to show you how much said he needs it
I want to be honest or mango
Let's have a face you can that you can say myself
But I'm taking the honest and brokenness her in a [searching] a certainty the problems. They may be funky well
What I'm feeling like you watch me up, and how do I be me when I feel like you taught me?
Kind of a sweet when I feel like you watch me
How do I be me when I feel like just a copy?
Oh, Emma tree
It kind of take who I am on my photos is a man show you how much that he needs it
I [wanna] be honest or later
[I] [think] you can that you can say my soul
But I'm thinking too honest and broke in a turkey in a [church] in a [certain] in the fog. They make a song well
What I've said, so, I just went back to the Eq just listening to it
It sounded still a little bit harsh to me, so I just used a little bit different curves here
And we're boosting at about 9 [K]
Ain't Gonna Say who I am I'm a sort of this event to show you how my study needs it
I [wanna] be honest or mango [I] second face you can that you can [set] myself
But I'm thinking the honest and broken a turk in a search in [a] [certain] the [phones] they look [upon] me well
When I feel like you watch me up, and how do I be me when I feel like just a copy?
Kind of a sweet when I feel like you watch me a pad to up being me when I feel like just a caffeine oh
that sounds pretty good in terms of level and just
Sitting in the pocket with the beat so the next thing we want [to] do is put a little bit of reverb and delay
to create some depth and the excitement for the vocal so you'll see again in the template that I have a
Reverb and delay effects track we're going to be sending there, but first let's deal with the reverb
So I'm going to load up
the reverb
Revelation in Cubase and what we'll do is
we'll just start sending a
little bit of our signal to this reverb a
Kind of shake who I am I'm a sort of this event to show you how much that he needs it
I want to be [dinosaur] [mango]
So you notice right there if we send too much to the reverb what ends up happening is you get this big washy?
Sound which is not something we want
Specifically for this vocal we don't want them to sound like he's in a hole
We just want to add some depth and some space
So another thing that's really key with our reverb is
That I generally will eat cue the reverb so I'll show you what I mean here. We'll pull up the
Eq on the reverb effects track and we're going to Eq the signal coming into this channel so that we're
rolling off quite a bit of the lows let's say around 500 and
the highs
So we're going to roll off some of this stuff around 10k, or so what this does is kind of carves out the frequencies to
Leave the vocal kind of untouched in terms of not making it really washy
The reverbs not going to get in the way of the vocal so but it will still get that sense of space
so once we've done that hey can I shake who I am I'm a sort of
The sword ain't Gonna fake who I am [I] my [focus] is imagine to show you how much said he means it I want to
Be honest, so I'm letting go I said my face thinking that you can see myself
[but] I'm [sinking] up now. Let's open up the reverb and make a couple adjustments here
I want to maybe change the reflection model of studio
Ain't got a frame size
Download this ain't gonna fake who I am I must focus is imagine to show you how much that he means it I want to
Be out [of] so, I'm letting go I said the face again that you [could] say myself
But I'm singing the honest and broke in a certain a certain a certain the firewood they look at fault whoa
Ain't Gonna fake who I am on my foot. This is a man to show you how my [study] [needs] it
I wanna be honest or mango
[I] said face you can that you can [say] [myself] put up drinking the honest and broken a turk in the search and assert in
The problems they make a song well
When I feel like you watch me. [oh], and how do I feed me when I feel like I'm just a coffee
How do I speak so what the beat you really can't notice the reverb so much again?
It's just [giving] us some space for the vocal ice and next let's go [ahead] and send a signal to our delay track
We're going to put a little bit of delay just to add some width to the vocal so we're going to open up
the Stereo Delay
And we're going to do probably a pretty fast delay. I'ma say maybe a sixteenth note
I will just start mixing some of that in
Ain't Gonna fake who I am I my struggles as a manager to show you how much that he means it up?
So again you see right [there]. It's just way too much
ain't Gonna Fake who I am I must
Ain't Gonna Fake who I am by my struggles imagine to show you how much that he means it
I want to be [out] [of] so I'm letting go [it's] like
It's a sinking that you can say myself
But I'm singing the honest and broke in a certain a certain a certain the fire, but they look at fault well
so I'm just eat ewing the
Echoes are the delays on each side just to make it a little bit more subtle ain't gonna fake who I am
I my struggles is imagine to show you how much [that] he means it
I want to be honest
so I'm letting go [I] said the face again that you can [see] my
That gives us just a little bit of width
so let's play [it] [back] [with] [the] be a kind of take who I am on my service is advanced to show you how my
Study needs it. I want to be 94 mango
I said [of] thanks to connect you can see myself
When I'm taking the honest and broke in a search in the search and assert in the front they make a song well
When I feel like you watch me up, and how do I be me when I feel like I'm just a copy
Kind of a seat when I feel like you watch me how do I be me when I feel like just to top things off?
hot on my three
I know with this don't [run] [potus] so I just keep going no longer play what you think that you noticed?
I can't live on sidewalks, and I know that guy goes another where every he worked me to do it
So we're we must [show] by the end of the road I can see what he wanted I
Ain't Gonna fake [who] I am on my tour. This is [advanced] to show you how much that he needs it
I want to be honest on there you go
I think of thinking that you can see myself, but I'm taking the honest and broke in a second [alright] shell
So that's our hip-hop vocal mix using stock plugins in cubase you have any questions or comments feel free to leave them below
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Will begin the hardest money garbage tell me to be myself again
It's not about being you but about the enmity being true to myself even if you can't see what he does love me
Romi is tell me where I need [to] be trying to see where I'll be told. What if she goes?
What is your motive then I'll be feeling alone some hoppers be gone
