Vocal Production
Vocal Production is the art of recording and arranging vocals, similar to music producing but focusing only on the vocal part rather than the whole song production.
| Occupation | |
|---|---|
| Names | vocal producer, vocal arranger |
Occupation type | Profession |
Activity sectors | Music industry |
| Specialty | {{#statements:P1995}} |
| Description | |
| Competencies | arranging, mixing, overdubbing |
Fields of employment | Recording studios |
Related jobs | Music executive, recording engineer, executive producer, film producer, A&R |
Similar to multitrack recording and overdubbing, vocal production works with vocal engineering, from recording vocals to perfecting the pitch and coordination of every word, as well as cutting and layering the vocals to create more complexity and melody in the sound.[1]
Examples
Vocal Production varies with a lot of production techniques from overdubbing to mixing. Many teachers explain that:
"Pretty much everyone knows that using a vocal mic up close without a separate pop screen of some kind is likely to result in audible popping on those plosive 'B', 'P' and 'M' sounds. What may be less obvious is that a significant amount of low-frequency energy from these sounds still makes its way through a typical pop screen, and though it's usually too low in level to be audible, opening a spectrum analyser plug-in on your vocal track can show up considerable activity down as far as 20Hz, or even beyond. Although you may not be able to hear these low frequencies, they eat up valuable headroom and occasionally conflict with the legitimate low frequencies in your mix from other instruments. A low-cut filter, either on the mic or on the preamp (most are 80Hz, 18dB/octave) employed at the recording stage will help, but even that may not entirely cure the problem — so additional low-cut filtering of the vocal track using a similar filter while editing or mixing may be needed to adequately suppress those unwanted lows. In most cases, you can afford to increase the low-cut filter frequency until you just start to hear it affecting the tonality of the voice, then back it off again slightly so that the filter is set as high as possible without compromising the low end of the vocal sound."
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References
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