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Equalizing the background vocals

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Equalizing the background vocals

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Many times background vocals conflict with lead vocal and can even cover it up. In this video I'll show you just what to do when that happens. Let's have a listen to the song with both the background vocals and the lead vocals together. (Music playing) Now there are two things about the background vocals. The first thing is that they cover up the lead vocal on the third line that we just heard and the other thing is they are kind of dark and we can brighten those up little bit so we can hear them a bit more distinctly. There is one thing that you should know about background vocals against lead vocals and that's if you attenuate anywhere between 2K and 5K, just a few db, all of a sudden you open up a space for lead vocal frequency wise. That will allow you hear both pretty well. The first thing we're going to do though is we're going to look at the lead vocal EQ and we're going to see that there is 4db boost at 2K. So really what we want to do is now attenuate the background vocals at…

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