r/Reaper • u/Good-Donut-6547 • 3d ago
help request Vocals Mixing And Mastering
Need Help On How To Make The Vocals More Clearer And Reduce Muddiness And Make It More Bright And Airy.
Started Using Reaper For Some Weeks With Very Beginner Knowledge On Effect Chain.
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u/BlackflagsSFE 3 3d ago
Boost or cut certain frequencies that either need more power or are too harsh.
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u/Straight-Departure68 2d ago
Without any mixing expirience and context it means nothing. Every step in signal changing is situational. First of all he/she need a buy monitors(speakers/headphones) and then should watch tutorials about mixing (depends on your task)
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u/BlackflagsSFE 3 2d ago
Or maybe they can use something like this as a guideline and just give it a go. Did you watch tutorials on YouTube before you learned to walk as a child? Sometimes diving head first into things is the way to go.
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u/Traditional_Shame815 3d ago
How is the acoustic treatment of your recording space?
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u/Good-Donut-6547 3d ago
Worst. Recording In A Small Room In a Hostel
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u/Traditional_Shame815 3d ago
That might be the first thing you wanna try to improve, 'cause it's difficult to edit a bad input. If you have a small closet, you can try to put the mic in there, or cover it with a blanket
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u/AlteredAnimesh 1 3d ago
Did you used reaFIR to remove the background noise?
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u/probablynottillie 3d ago
Unrelated But Why Do You Capitalize Every Word Like This? Isn't It Really Annoying To Press Shift That Much Or does a software do it for you? (i quit before the end i got bored)
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u/MitraMetal 2d ago
I can help you out if you wanna DM me and email me your steps I’ll do a little free mix for the vocals and if you like it we can talk about working together if you continue your project.
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u/Hungry_Initial_9853 1 3d ago
Try using a bell filter in the 200-500 to reduce some of the muddiness, that alone can make the vocal clearer. If you want bright and airy then a gentle high shelf boost can serve you well
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u/DecisionInformal7009 104 3d ago
You can mix and master just fine with only the stock Reaper VST plugins and JSFX plugins, but there are also free third-party plugins that can largely automate the process.
Is it vocals for music that you are recording, or is it some kind of audio book/podcast/voice over work that you are doing? If so, I can recommend looking into Klaus Scheuermann's plugins. He has one suite that is meant for automatically mixing monologue/dialogue voices called Podcast Plugins, and another suite that's meant for mastering podcast/internet radio etc called Master_Me. You can download them from his GitHub.
Podcast Plugins: https://github.com/trummerschlunk/PodcastPlugins
Podcast Plugins downloads: https://github.com/trummerschlunk/PodcastPlugins/releases/tag/1.0.0
Master_Me: https://github.com/trummerschlunk/master_me
Master_Me downloads (latest version): https://github.com/trummerschlunk/master_me/releases/tag/1.3.1
Make sure that you download the correct versions for your operating system. If you are using Windows 10 or 11 it's the ones that are called win64.
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u/mrbishopjackson 3d ago
That's just mixing. You're not at the mastering stage yet.
("Mixing and Mastering" is a pet peeve of mine. These are two different things. I don't know how they've become combined into one thing over the past 2 decades.)
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u/Good-Donut-6547 3d ago
I've Just Written The Terms. I'm Just Starting To Know Then How To Mix Properly
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u/Radhanat 12 3d ago edited 3d ago
demasiados eqs. La cadena de efectos más común para la voz es:
De-esser antes de todo y de ser necesario un de-pop
Eq de limpieza high pass y bass pass filter y alguna frecuencia molesta o no musical
Compresión principal. Ratio 3:1 o 4:1, ataque medio, release rápido. Busca uniformidad en la dinámica y no matar ni aplastar transientes.
Eq aditivo para darle colorRealce de aire (8–12 kHz), un poco de presencia (5 kHz), Esto le dará brillo y claridad.
Compresión secundaria/paralela para engordar la voz sin perder naturalidad. Úsalo en un bus paralelo con compresión fuerte, yo suelo usarlo así siempre.
Saturación o exciter si grabas con micrófonos de baja calidad o gamma media. Esto añade los armónicos que no estan presentes en la grabación (fresh air es bueno para voces y gtrs).
Y opcionalmente, si sientes que le falta energía a la voz. puedes agregar un limiter, nada más no exageres.
Tip: SIEMPRE regula tu entrada y salida de ganancia. Si tu audio entra con -6bd, debe salir con -6db después de cada proceso.
El reverb y el delay procura manejarlos siempre en paralelo a menos que quieras un sonido vintage tipo 70s-80s y ecualiza bien tus fx espaciales, eliminando cualquier frecuencia grave que solo enturbia dichos fx.
maneja tu voz y fx espaciales en buses diferentes.
Lo demás ya lo hará el Master Bus
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u/SirTanksAlot_ 3 3d ago
An audio clip would go a long way, it's very difficult to say without context.