How I mix music_Part # 16_Vocals


Snap, Crackle, Pop; Rice Krispies.

It is more than a marketing slogan for a breakfast cereal. It is a descriptor of your music mix.

Snap …your foundation
Crackle …your melodic tonal structure ...guitars, keys, sweetening.

Pop …should be your Vocals/Soloist.

My wife just completed a green quilt. It has a perfectly sized bright pink frame making up an inside border. Metaphorically speaking the pink is the vocal part of her mix. It gives the quilt one heck of a pop. The bright pink frame is ideal; if it were one quarter of an inch wider it would be gaudy. The frame’s color, size, shape and position bring the audience viewing it gently into its borders reveling the stunning artwork inside. Her quilt is a perfect example of how to mix vocals into a musical composition.

 Talent knows the fine line between clever and stupid.

Again ...Here's an unavoidable rule of physics …there’s only a limited amount of air space in your mix to create tonal quality. After you fill up the air space your brain no longer hears tonal distinction it just puts all your hard work into a box called noise.

While building your mix never lose track of your pop, that’d be called your soloist instruments ...yes, your lead vocals are a soloist instrument. An instrument that should shine without overpowering. An instrument that everyone in the show plays toward, that every audience member remembers.

Peter makes it hard not to remember or recognize his voice is as a lead instrument. 
Next up ...Reverbreation ...ation ...ation ...ation ...ation 

 

 

 

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