Stuart White recording and mixing vocals for Beyoncé | Sneak Peek
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- Опубліковано 23 кві 2024
- Stuart White reveals Beyoncé’s complete vocal chain and shares the plugins he used to mix her 2013 single, ‘Partition’.
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This extract comes from a 3-part series in which Stuart revisits the original Pro Tools session for ‘Yoncé’. Watch Stuart deconstruct the recording and mixing process behind this hit song and get an inside look at the production featuring contributions by Mike Dean, Justin Timberlake, Timbaland and more.
Love how laid back this dude is.
what should he else be ?
It always amazes me how many amateurs and hobbyists on UA-cam trash Waves plugins. Yet most real professionals keep on using Waves on hit records
This song is from 2013, waves was still king back then.
edit: the main problem with waves is the way they run their company, milking customers with updates, subscriptions etc. Plugins are good, probably some better alternatives out there nowadays tho
@@robbeservaes3625 fair point
They are reliable. That’s the difference. You pay for that. Big deal - it’s part of the maintenance of running a studio. Amateurs don’t run studios and mix for Beyoncé. Fabfilter, also expensive, is equally as reliable.
The mixing deity known as Serban Ghenea uses the Blue face CLA-76 on his vocal chain, its confirmed.
It's good to see this just to know that you don't need all the new fancy plugins for a professional sound. Sometimes keeping things simple and straight to the point is all you need. The music is all that matters.
while I agree with the sentiment bro just went through a $20k vocal chain lmao
@@zachs_music Well in this case nevermind LOL
sometimes you need fancy plugins if you dont have a avalon pre or hardware compressor
@@6stringbeats397Nah your point is still valid. The recording was of high quality (due to the expensive gear) so that he was able to not do so much in the box
I don’t think this is entirely fair because and the one thing we’re over looking is the treated room it was recorded in. so many people.l Don’t realize that even good gear in a poorly treated space sounds poor. I’ve gotten great recordings on affordable gear because of good treatment. Don’t get mixed up in the gear. Spend a few hundred bucks on building some real acoustic treatment (not foam!) spend a few hundred on a decent Mic and I promise you’ll be shocked with the results. Also there a very solid software emulations so u can track with some preamp saturation and compression in the box to achieve similar results. I may be no one but I can say from experience this will make makes a word of a difference don’t get caught up on the what their using but what and why they’re doing what they do. The philosophy behind it is critical. I’m currently working on a session and the mic we’re using for tracking is the AT2020, but the vocalists are great, the song is great and the chain uses some free plugins, stock protools and some waves. Sorry for the rant but don’t let the gear keep u from making great music!
Ultra sauce Thank you guyss!!!!
need more like this brooooooooooooooooo
Greatest!
Dude is amazing.
Makes sense
Did he mix the track as well? Them drums are Clean and crispy!!
Them: "Gear doesn't matter!"
Also them:
Gear matters when you are Beyoncé lmao, not for any of us in the comments (not yet🤞)
I mean, he is also using stock plugins in protools and demonstrating why it works. Its the why behind the gear and how uses it more than the gear itself I think
30K for the Chain?
@@JordiCristau because it's Beyonce, probably more. I'd guess they not only have top of the line equipment, but also what's known as golden units--every iteration of the same piece is different, and they have the S tier ones.
Goat talk
🙏🏼
Michael x Bruce Swedien =
Beyonce’ x Stuart White
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I like the low-mids on Beyonce.
Any advice for home studios
The advice was pretty clear, if you have a top performer going through a high-end vocal chain recorded in a proper acoustic setting you'll be able to mix using few, and basic plugins. =)
@@thisiswhereiwatch Ap
too real
@@thisiswhereiwatchclearly it’s the pro tools stock EQ giving the vocals their signature sound
wow, 5 minute video gave me more than 2 years watching youtube tutorials
Which neve model is he talking about?
1073
@@thisiswhereiwatch "the" Neve, right? haha
@@danymalsound i guess i shouldve known right? LOL
Jedi level status
Good stuff
Interesting Story
Damn the bass in his voice almost makes me go dizzy 😂😂😂😂 wearing headphones lol
Surprising how he is riding the mic pre gain to compensate for something Be could have done herself in the first place : Handling dynamic and placement with the microphone. I'd have expected her to do it, regarding her great vocal skills and experience (I am not talking about riding the fader of the vocal when tracking, which is happening on the output going into the DAW, which is a different thing). Like other great singers of a similar caliber did (Sinatra and MJ comes to mind for this, MJ being more relevant here).
to be fair he’s talking about micro dynamics within the performance to make any compression more consistent. It’s a professional sound and as an engineer you just do whatever the session needs.
I dont think thats a fair point. She has powerful dynamic range, and I think the gear should adapt to capturing that magic, not grounding the magic for the gear's sake. I think he's doing it right
Oh she probably does it, but it's simply not enough, great recording engineers have always backed the singer with mic gain.
It seems I wasn't clear : I didn't meant that he did wrong. I was just surprised that he had to do it. I've encountered a few singers like this. But I am just surprised that he had to do it on Beyoncé. Especially regarding her choir background (in choirs you have no mics, so you need a great vocal dynamic control, which I am sure she has).
@@somedood6621 Yes I know what it is, I had to do it myself too. I was just surprised that it was necessary for Beyoncé. As I have also encountered a lot of great singers that do it by theirselves. I just wasn't expecting that here :).
Way too short. Could've listened to this guy for hours
Moral of the story is know your plugins
“You don’t need all the fancy new shit” meanwhile the vocal is running through a 50 thousand dollar + vocal chain lol.
Oh we're eating good today
bet its a nightmare EQing Her Vocals !
why is his voice robotic?
hes just a low energy talker lmao
He is AI and not a real human
Who cares?
@@eponawarrior7492 Never diagnose a stranger on the internet again, cheers.
Bruh I didn't diagnose anyone, I just said it could be that, as in, a potential reason.@@ElMoShApPiNeSs