Learn all you wanted to know about producing, arranging, and recording killer vocals with this Kingsley Knight Masterclass Killer Vocals Video Training Course. With over four hours of video material, instructor David Wills calls upon his 30 years of experience to walk you through the production tools that bring you plug-and-play radio-quality sounds to your mixes. The coursework spans topics ranging from caring for and warming up your voice, to arrangement, editing, and mixing, to getting the kind of vocals that you are looking to create.
Introduction
Your Vocals
- Physiology of Your Voice
- Proper Breathing Technique
- Chest vs Belly Breathing
- Falsetto
- Warming Up Exercises
- Hydration
- Yawning
- Core Warmup
- Neck and Shoulders Warmup
- Mouth and Tongue Warmup
- Lip Trills
- Tongue Trills
- Breathing Warmup
- 1-3-5 Sirens
- 1-3-5-Octave Sirens
- The Big Three Enemies
Vocal Parts
- Benefits of Vocal Arrangements
- Types of Vocal Parts
- Harmony 101
- Using a Keyboard for Chord Shapes
- Becoming a Student of Harmony
Tracking Vocals
- Microphone Recommendations
- Phantom Power
- Addressing your Microphone
- Mounting your Microphone
- Proximity Effect
- Handling Plosives
- Using Pop Filters
- Setting Levels
- Preparing for Tracking Vocals
- Auditioning our Backing Tracks
- Tracking your Lead Vocal
- Punching In
- Comping Vocals
- Editing Comps
- Doubling Vocals
- Performance Tricks
- Doubling Example
- Double Levels
- Harmony Example 1 - Echo Parts
- Importance of Preset Tracks
- Basic mix of 3-Part Harmonies
- Plate Reverb on Harmonies
- Cleaning up Edit Points
- Harmony Example 2 - Call and Response
- Harmony
- Example 3 - Pad or Wash
- Confidence in Falsettos Parts
- Flying Vocals
- Harmony Example 4 - Call and Response 2
- Flying Vocals Example 2
- Bridge Vocals
Editing Vocals
- Editing Lead vs Backing Vocals
- Cleaning up Timeline
- Color Coding Tracks
- Time Correcting Doubled Vocals
- Correcting Hard Consonants
- Correcting Time Slices
- Pitch Correction Overview
- Correction Speed
- Formant Control
- Time Correcting Bridge Harmonies
- Sliding Releases
- Pitch Editing our Lead Vocal
- Chopping Parts
- Working with Drift
- Working with Transition Time
- Working with Glissando Parts
Mixing Vocals
- Backing Tracks Mix
- Rhythm Section Mix
- Lead Vocal vs Double balance
- Lead Vocal vs Harmonies balance
- Compress before EQ
- Compressing the Lead Vocal
- Creating a Crush Channel
- Creating a Backing Vocal Crush Buss
- Cleaning up Backing Vocals with Noise Gates
- EQ Overview Corrective vs Creative
- EQing our Lead Vocal
- Using a HPF
- Adding Air to Lead Vocal
- Removing Boxiness from Lead Vocal
- Adding Intelligibility to Lead Vocal
- Creating EQ Presets
- Adding Time Based Effects
- Early Reflections vs Tail
- Delays with Feedback
- Adding a Radio Effect Echo
- Completing the Final Mix
- Automation
Graduation
Bonus Interview
Andrew Scheps - Grammy Award winning Mix Engineer with Adele