No worries – we’ll “claim” those 15 db back at the end of the mix chain, but for now we’re lowering it by 15 dB to get some “headroom” to start with (more about “headroom” and gain staging in THIS ARTICLE. In other words, the vocal has a difficult time to cut through the full backing track – this is especially true if you’re a songwriter trying to create a vocal hook on a full blown EDM-track which was originally intended as an instrumental club-track.īecause we need some room for the vocals, we start by turning the backing-track down by – 15 dB using a Gainer-plugin in the first insert-slot of the channel. We need to remember that the producer, when she created the backing track, did not necessarily care about adding vocals – the producer just wanted the best sound for the track. Read interview with The Karaoke + A Capp. When you import them into your DAW software, you can see in the waveform that they are coming in at full level, maxing out the meters. Isolating vocals+instrumentals The Karaoke + A Cappella Guy - Listen to samples, read reviews, learn more, contact.

Producers who create backing-tracks want them to sound as big as possible – most of the time they are fully mixed, mastered and level-maximized, and sound really full and “loud”.

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