KVR Audio

Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Sat Jul 04, 2015 3:08 pm

ok let's say i got mixed a fully instrumental and also mastered it via (obviously) the masterchannel effects.

then i get acapellas, how do you work then?

i normally just re-open my project (with all mixing and mastering settings and channels on) and add the acapellas. BUT then the acapellas get already EFFECTED by the MASTER channel effects too (saturation, eq, compression, limiter), is it ok or should the vocals only get mixed and be UNEFFECTED by the same masterchannel?

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Sat Jul 04, 2015 3:14 pm

How would it be possible to do a mix without the vocals going through the master channel?

Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Sat Jul 04, 2015 3:20 pm

thecontrolcentre wrote:How would it be possible to do a mix without the vocals going through the master channel?

re-routing with submixes

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thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 12:19 am

Caine123 wrote:
thecontrolcentre wrote:How would it be possible to do a mix without the vocals going through the master channel?
re-routing with submixes .

Please explain a bit more ...

lfm · Post by **lfm** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 6:53 am

Isn't this what mixing is about - mix as an entity.

Also a bit puzzled over what you call "acapella" - which to me means arrangement of vocals to work on it's own - that musical background is more or less obsolete, at least need to be very sparse.

To guess - I think you used too much EQ on master if adding vocals become a problem.
If you feel you have to use EQ at all at master - something is wrong - it should be elsewhere.
With less processing on master - adding something is easier.

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 7:55 am

You made the mistake to "master" before the whole "mix" was ready...
These are seperate processes!

Re. submixes: instead of sending all the tracks to the master bus, you can send them first to group bus channels. Usually you'd have a bus for the drums, one for vocals, etc. On that bus you can apply effects that are for that group only, and set the volume relative to the other groups. Then all the groups are summed on your master bus. It gives another level of control.

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 2:37 pm

BertKoor wrote:Then all the groups are summed on your master bus.

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