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At what level should your instrumental
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and vocals be in order to get a balanced
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mix? In today's video, I'm going to be
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showing you just that. Hi guys, welcome
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back to the channel. If you're new to
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this channel, my name is Jay. I make
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music production tutorials on YouTube in
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Cubase and FL Studio. So consider
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subscribing, click that post notification
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I upload a brand new video. For quite
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some time now, I've been getting this
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question, at what level should the vocals
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and the instrumental be in order to get a
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decent mix? So before I show you this
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trick that I'm going to show you now, I
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want you to understand that a decent
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balance between the vocals and the
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instrumental comes as a result of
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experience. You need to be patient with
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yourself, give yourself time to gain the
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experience, train your ears to listen to
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what a great mix sounds like, what a good
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balance between the vocals and the beat
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sounds like. Listen to more music, listen
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to different types of music and as you
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get that experience, you'll be able to
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tell whenever you balance the vocals on a
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beat to say this sounds great, this
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sounds like a good balance. Maybe you're
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a producer, you already have clients, you
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need to make money and you need to get
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this done and you can't wait for that
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time. So in today's video, I'm going to
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be showing you this trick that will help
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you get the job done now and as you go,
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you keep on improving on the trick and
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you keep on listening to what sounds
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great. After mixing a number of songs for
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quite some time now, I've come to realize
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that there is a range in the balance
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between the vocals and the beat where the
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beat can be and where the vocals would
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be. I'm going to be showing you that
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range and it will help you balance your
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vocals. Pick any point below zero where
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you want to leave your instrumental. Once
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you start adding the vocals on top of
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that instrumental, make sure that you're
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within a difference of 3 dB. What I mean
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by this is let's say for example you set
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your beat at negative 6 dB. When you
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start balancing your vocals on top of
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that beat, just make sure that you don't
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go above negative 3 dB. So that's a 3 dB
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difference. So from negative 6, that's
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negative 5, negative 4, negative 3.
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Another example would be you set the
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maximum peak for your instrumental at
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negative 9, balancing your vocals on top
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of that instrumental. You're not supposed
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to go above negative 6, which is a 3 dB
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difference from negative 9, negative 8,
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negative 7, negative 6. I hope you're
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getting the idea from this. Let me show
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you this right here in the project. I've
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got a mix right here and I've bypassed
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all the effects and plugins that I added
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here. It's just the vocals in the
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instrumental. This is the point where
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you're supposed to balance everything
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before you start adding any plugin to
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your mix. Some plugins add some gain to
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your vocals. It will be up to you now to
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maintain those levels when the plugin
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adds some gain. It's very important to
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balance your vocals on the beat before
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you add any plugin so that you know that
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everything is balanced and as you add the
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plugins, your job will be to maintain
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that level that you got now. So you can
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use your faders. If you balance this
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using faders, it's entirely up to you. I
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personally like to use this volume here
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to balance everything. I don't usually
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use the faders here unless otherwise.
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This is just due to personal preference
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and just making sure that whatever signal
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I'm sending into the plugins will not be
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distorted. So this helps me a lot to make
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sure of that. Let's start with picking
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the level of our instrumental. Let's take
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it to negative 9 dB. Just reduce the
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volume of your beat right here and make
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sure that on your metering plugin here
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it's showing negative 9.
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So you can see now that the level is
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negative 9 here which is my maximum peak.
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So now I need to balance my vocals on top
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of this beat. I'm going to concentrate on
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this part of my vocals here. So this goes
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for the entire mix. You need to balance
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your vocals to make sure that like I said
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there should be a 3 dB difference. So
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since my beat is at negative 9 that means
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when I start adding my vocals on top of
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this beat I should make sure that I don't
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go above negative 6. So I'll switch on
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the vocal right here, play and reduce the
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volume from here. So I've highlighted
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everything here and I'll just reduce the
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volume. The level at which you leave your
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vocals in that range from negative 9 to
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negative 6 it could be at negative 7 it
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could be at negative 8 is entirely up to
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you. Do you want your vocal a little bit
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louder or to compete with the beat? So
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that's entirely up to you. You can find
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the sweet spot. So let me just play this.
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(...) When it comes to the peak my maximum
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is negative 4. So I'll reduce the volume
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to make sure that it's below negative 6.
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So this balance to me sounds great. I
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don't know about you but I like it here.
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There you go you balance your vocals. So
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let's try another range. Let's say you
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put your beat at negative 6 this time.
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When you play your vocals a 3 dB
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difference from negative 6 will now be
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negative 5, negative 4, negative 3. So
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meaning when we balance the vocals on top
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of this we're not supposed to go beyond
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negative 3 dB. And let's play the beat.
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So the beat is at negative 6 here. So
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when we balance the vocals a negative 3
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dB difference will be not to go above
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negative 3. That's from negative 6,
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negative 5, negative 4, negative 3.
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That's 3 in between. So we can be
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anywhere between these two numbers.
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Negative 3 and negative 6. I'll switch on
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the vocal and let's just balance this.
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So to me that's a great balance. That's
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negative 3.5. So somebody may ask how do
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you balance the backup vocals because
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you're only balancing the lead vocal. Yes
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one thing you need to know is that the
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lead vocal is the lead vocal. That's why
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it's called the lead vocal. It's supposed
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to be louder than the backup vocals. Get
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the balance between the beat and your
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lead vocal. Go to your backup vocals,
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switch them on and make sure you balance
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and don't cross these levels that we've
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talked about. Let them play lower than
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the lead vocal. Alright guys thanks a lot
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for watching. If you enjoyed this video
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