My TOP 3 Vocal Delay TRICKS for PRO Vocals (any genre)
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
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Do your vocals just not sit right in the mix? Are they muddy or pushed back or just don't sound like your favorite bands and artists?
Today, I'm sharing my vocal delay secrets that I use on EVERY SINGLE SONG. These tricks will keep your vocals up front but help GLUE them to the song.
I show you every single detail along the way so you can set up delays the right way when you mix your music.
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00:00 - Intro
01:04 - Download My FREE Vocal Delay Guide! 🎁
02:12 - Why I Use Delay and Not Reverb
02:39 - General Strategy for Vocal Delay
03:07 - How to Set Up Aux Vocal Delay Track
03:38 - Tempo Sync Vocal Delay
04:05 - Best Practices for Setting Up Delays
04:51 - Delay Trick #1 Setup and Demo
05:34 - How to Calculate Delay Timing
08:15 - Setting the Vocal Delay Level
09:29 - EQing Vocal Delay
11:42 - Delay Trick #2 Setup and Demo
14:56 - Why Delays Need to Be Quiet
16:03 - Delay Trick #3 To Make Vocals HUGE
19:57 - Dialing in the "Crazy" Delay
20:14 - Before and After Using Delay
21:40 - Summary
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For people who want the higher portion of the delays to come through, potentially adding a De-esser before your delay in the send chain can give you a tiny bit more wiggle room as far as when the delay vocals will start to poke out of the mix (at least in my experience)
Great point! It definitely helps to tuck the delay into the mix more. Thanks for sharing!
This is what stuck it all together. Those harsh frequencies plus not running an extra de esser. Thanks a ton
imogen heap has an interesting way to do this also, she copies the vocal and manually slices out all the sibilant and plosives, then feeds that into the delay
Just found your channel and you´ve got some really good crash course material for many of my favorite VST plugins! I love that you do fair A/B comparisons in your videos, with comparable sound levels instead of showing something unprocessed that sounds low in volume and then the loud processed thing (which pleases most ears and make them think it´s better, cause it´s louder and/or has stronger volume, but probably squashed and undynamic). Just pure gold
I just found you channel and between this and your vocal chain video I've gotten tons of great information. Your C6 settings from your vocal chain just work! Thanks and keep the content coming!
Such a great tutorial. Perfectly in depth and informative yet interesting and not too drawn out. Needed this 👌🏾
Awesome tips!! I love H-Delay!!
Incredible! Thank you so much! One of the best, most well explained, and actionable tutorials I've seen on youtube. Nice job!
You nailed it in this video. These are all the tricks I needed to understand.
Great vid & tips! Keep up the great work 👍🏼
This is really great. Full of info with easy to understand explanation.
Great job very simple explaining
I love how you explain not only what to do and how to do it, but more importantly, why? When you understand the concept behind a technique, and what the goal is, then you can apply it in different ways, or perhaps not applying it at all in certain situations that don't call for it, instead of just mechanizing it or copying it. I tend to use the doubler effect on the Waves Manny's delay plugin, which modulates the pitch as well, and really fattens it up. But I like your approach when something more subtle is required. Rolling off those frequencies really does the trick. And that almost goes for all effects, including reverb. BTW, just subscribed. You got it.
I use to mess up my vocals with delays in trying to figure out what the pros are doing. But this right here is a game-changer for me thanks, man.
Hi Bobby! This was very helpful. I learned a lot! AND you did this without using reverb. That surprises me. But, it works! Thanks for posting.
Brilliant and very helpful, thanks so much!
By far the best tutorial about H-delay!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1000X thanks Bobby!👌🤩
Wow, this demonstration is amazing. It's so informative and well presented. I appreciate you sharing, content quality is well worth the follow.
That delay really works. Thank you so much for breaking it down. Thank you. Having the tools while you work really works.
Wow, even adding this to my playlist to watch all over again should I need refreshment of this knowledge that I got from you.
Found your channel the other day and your videos are next level. Easy to follow and already learned so much to help improve my mixes. Thank you 🙏
Thank you so much :) Glad to help.
You are truly my Sensei from Today! I learn so much from your videos and i just started watching your channel from yesterday from a random youtube recommendation!
Great info. Thanks!
Great tip, definitely trying it!
Really awesome man, thank you so much for sharing it. Valeu!
Great video and very clear demonstrations! I haven't used #3 before, but will definitely give a try in the future. The other two are definite go-to delays for me.
This is the best video on vocal delay I have seen!
Thanks for your video, awesome content
So glad I clicked on this video. I hit the subscribe button and I will be following! Good shit
I use some of these tricks on my delays, but you showed some even better. Thank you.
Thanks for another top-quality lesson, you know your stuff, God Bless Ya Brother!
Great tutorial, thanks!
Great tutorial ! Sub is well deserved
Wow!! Thank you do much. Stumble on this channel on my daily 'learning curve' search. Instantly went with this on my new track - instant improvement. Wonderful
Awesome! Glad it was helpful!
It's crazy, thank you so much dear Sir.
Excelente. Obrigado pela dica.
Nice, going to try this out, sounds clear
Amazing vid! Thanks for the gems 💪🏻🔥
I love mixing. There's so much room for activities!
This was excellent! Lots of great suggestions here! Thanks!
So glad you found it helpful! Cheers to you!
Excellent explanation, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge, it has been very useful for my learning. Greetings from Argentina
So helpful tutorial, thank you Raytown Production.
Awesome tips, thanks bro....
Clearly explained. Well done.
Dude! THANKYOU
Thank you for an excellent video
Up until now I've avoided delays or used them sparingly at best relying more on reverbs and have some good results, but also some I haven't been happy with. These tricks give me a much better idea how I can use delay successfully in my music. I've got the H-Series so will try out these tricks with some of my recordings - this is a really good overview on how to use delay - better than I've seen in a lot of other videos....... I feel like I can put this to immediate use. Thanks!
Thank you so so much for the kind comment. It means the world to me that you are getting something out of the tutorial. Cheers!
Good stuff 👍 thank you
I have the H delay and no Idea how to use it, so glad I found this
For added Glue, I recommend side chaining the reverb and delay sends bus to the lead vocals
Very cool. I did not realize you could have 3 delays all at once. Definitely going to try. Great vid. Vocalist in the song is really great! Cool track.
Excellent video I have this delay plugin I will try this out thank you 🙏
Thank you from France, it's very very helpful
I have usually stopped at one delay, and then often when it is supposed to be audible. I will definitely try this trick out! For that larger than live sound I often go with a reverb with a predelay around 125 ms.
Video coming soon my my reverb tricks 😉
This really helps
Dude this video is so underrated. Most knowledgeable I’ve gotten off one single tutorial. Thanks man. You’re gonna be the roote of my success
Thanks so much! So happy to help 🙂
i am going to try this out now
wow crazy vocalist love the sound!
Thank you. Good and clear explanations. Just like your delays. :)
LOVING THE CHANNEL!! Question for this, would you do the three delay trick for lead obviously, but also the backings, harms , doubles, etc?
Nice ! I like using a de-esser on my delay and reverb
Very useful video 👍
Brilliant expo. Please can you make a video about mixing with micro delays on different instruments such as drums and perc, guitars or whatever elements you think would be best candidates. Many thanks.
Very useful !!!!
thank you so muchhhh❤❤❤
Great trick
Man i've learned so much from you thanks
nice work bro
Amazing lessons bro, thank you very much🙏🏻🇦🇪
This was what I wanted to learn..... never stop learning
Thanks! Hearing and Feeling : tricky limit.
Sounds nice, I'll have to try #3. Although the vocals in that mix still feel a bit buried and in the background. I like them to be the most important element, top priority. Thanks for the tips
amazing video
Great stuff! Thanks for sharing! Question: if the channel with the delay plugin in it is used for sending just one vocal is it technically the same to adjust the vox send to the delay channel or just move the delay channel fader?
Best vocal delay tutorial
Best reverb video for 2023 👌
Thank you so much
Thanks a lot
Perfect
I do the same thing, But I use a guitar slap back all the time on my vocals, with little tweaks. I also put a longer one on.
Wait... you apply all three approaches together to the track?? 🤯 I use approach 3 on every mix, usually shorter delays and often use a dotted or triplet on the one channel (not saying what I'm doing is right/good). All three seems like it would be busy and aren't you doubling up at least one of the delays (in approach 1 you use a 1/4 delay and then you apply the same delay to one of the channels in approach 3). I will definitely give it a try - creating space for the vocal is so important especially in heavier tracks. Love your channel, your explanation, and the FB group. Thank you!
Subscribed, nice video :)
thank you bro for detail ...I am from Nepal
Очень познавательный урок 👍
hey, i’ve watched the video about a month or 1.5 ago and actually tried these delay techniques pretty much exactly the way they are presented here just to test out how they would show themselves in different scenarios straight “out of the box”, and gotta say these points are pretty solid.
after that I aimed to bring some of my creative thought to the concept and found that there’s a great trick that may be added on top of any of these delays: basically it’s working separately on the filters (here you use the ones that are provided in delay plugins) as a separate closing step in a chain - use any separate filter, 3rd prty or included in a DAW, that supports sidechain input and feed it with the signal of dry vox, so it responses to its dynamics and moves cutoff frequency reacting to side-chained signal. through experimenting with it i preferred using both HP and LP filters this way. LP can be targeted at frequencies close to what you’ve shown here, and HP - somewhere around the fundamental of a typical vocal performance (~200Hz), setting the amplitude of the filters to move within slight spread of 3-7%, with resonance set for both at around 10%-11% (static value, not affected by side-chain). pretty much worked great with every delay from this video on different vocal tracks in various projects regardless of any input differences. summing up - brightens up the overall vocal performance in a dynamic manner in sync with the elements of a track & filters’ reactive subtle resonant movements add just a sparkle of characteristic sweep to resulting sound image. since the movement is really subtle within the specified few percentage points, it comes across causing no audible harshness to the sound, but rather enriches it. anyway, if anyone would be bored (loool) - feel free to try this out, worked like a charm in all of my tests. it’s highly possible that you will find it to be working as well.
Bobby, thanks for the tips, turned out to be useful in my workflow.
Awesome to hear that! So glad you found them helpful :)
A lot of mixers talk about using a dotted quarter or eighth for one side of the crazy delay. It really draws your attention to it as it creates a different groove
Yes! I totally agree. It also just makes it sound interesting when used right...
Do you ever use a stereo delay with 1 short delay ms and another offset to create sense of space around vocal? Cool video 👍
Veri nice
this is an awesome technique. thanks Bobby! would you recommend doing this only to the main vocal or to harmonies as well?
I know this is a generic answer here but it depends haha. Sometimes the song sounds really good when the harmonies on the sides are really dry and tight. Other times it's cool to give the harmonies a ping pong delay to help make them feel more 3D. Most of the time I would say I probably use a lot of these tricks on the harmonies as well. Hope that helps!
got my thumb brother this is a great tutorial
This video made me subscribe. I will definitely use these tips because I love delay. I might never use reverb on my vocals ever again lol just kidding, but delay has always been my favorite out of the two.
Man this is dope! A night and day tutorial. Congrats! Do u think that Reverb in this situation isn't necessary or Just The combination of delays excludes The Reverb?
I've done it both ways. I tend to use much more delay than reverb because it tends to push the vocalist too far back in a mix. Hope that helps!
Just found you and watched a couple of your vids. Less is more! A man after my own heart. Just because one can doesn't always mean one should. With all of the tools available to us today it's way easy to over do it and just wash out a mix giving it no punch or definition and we're going "I've got fifteen plugs on this so why doesn't it sound good" lol! I like your approach even tho my music is definitely a different genre, the principles still remain largely the same for a clean punchy defined mix. I only wish I had had these tools when I was doing my first six CD's. We hardly had enough tracks back then to do the job much less the plugins and of course no computer at all. For that matter, the first studio I worked in back in the 60's had two Ampex 2 tracks and we spliced quarter inch tape with a razor blade. Now we have Disney world on a lap top lol! Not quite that simple, but you get the point. Kudos my friend!
Hi Bobby, just found your channel.. do you have s similar video on how to compress vocals when mixing.. and which of your free plugins on your download list do you advise ffor compressing vocals?
Great videos! I would like to ask you how exactly you reduce the unwanted tails from the vocal delays? The most usual approach is by using a compressor over the delay that is feeded with the original vocal signal, so that this kicks in when the next "Fast" words occur and the delay effect from the previous words is reduced. Is this strategy good ? What settings do you suggest for setting up this kind of compressor ? I found it very hard working due to dynamics of the original vocal signal , that many times either overfeed the compressor or they don't feed it enough so the tails of the delays are randomly addressed in the end :(
Thank you in advance~! 🥰
Great. would love to know how you processed your vocal .
I got you :)
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This is great info! Signal chain question: do you send unprocessed vocals to the Aux bus and process them after? Or do the vocals you’re sending to the Aux channels already have compression and EQ on them?
I send the processed signal to the effects. Thats how it's routed in cubase for send effects. Great question!
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this is fire! ive been trying to use the same reverb as my beats to fit the vocals in but it doesn't work, so i'm going to try this! any extra tips you'd recommend? thanks in advance
Everything in this video will treat ya right. If you want to go deeper, check out the free guide I have in the description! There are a few bonus tricks to try.
So clear and easy explained...great vid. But what if a delay doesn't have eq on board? Do you put an eq before or after the delay on the send track? And why not working with an de Esser after the delay to get rid of the"sssss":)? Thanks
You can add Eq down your delay very simple