Automate The Smash

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[craigligman]

Always love your REAL engineering mindset of mixing not just trick tips, great channel! Love the song too very cool drum vibe!

[TheLeon]

ive learned so much from you over the years, big thanks man, hope youre doing well bro

[PeterJDeVault]

Cool idea - I especially like the technique of building a saturation riser with the band while keeping the vocal constant. Generalizing that thought suggests a bunch of possibilities.

[baldmandoom]

This is a cool desert rock tune, good track to showcase this idea

[joelonsdale]

Great technique! I will sometimes reduce the volume of the lead vocal in proportion to the music push and let the buss processing sort out the fight - can sound massive and dynamic with not that much actual volume change...

[nj]

This is basically how vocal riding (and other "rider") plugins work afaik. Not the saturation part, but the automating the RMS or LUFS-M of a track. At least that's how I usually do vocal riding. Record the output of a LUFS-M meter, invert it and automate the volume of the vocal track with it. I usually reduce the automation by around 50% though so it doesn't sound completely squashed.