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Give your vocal an awesome airy sound

Give your vocal an awesome airy sound - Pro Tools Tutorial

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Give your vocal an awesome airy sound

- [Voiceover] Many pop vocals require some extra-special fairy dust to make them special. Here's a way to add some extra air that makes it jump right out of the track. So, first of all, let's listen to the track and zero in on the lead vocal. (bright guitar plucking, woman singing) So that sounds pretty good, but we can make it sound a little bit more special, and we'll do this first by duplicating the track, and all we want when we duplicate it, is just the active playlist. OK, so, now let's soul this up, and the first thing we're going to do is compress it, and we're going to compress it fairly hard. We'll just use our standard compressor here, and a fairly fast attack time, and a medium release time, let's see what we've got. (woman singing) OK, that's a lot of compression, that's eight or nine dB, but that's kind of what we want here. We want it to be a little on the squashed side. Next thing we'll do, is we'll ad an EQ, and we're going to boost it somewhere up in the high range…

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