Easily Get PERFECT Vocal Levels in 3 Clicks 🎚️ #Shorts

Quickly get your vocals sitting in the mix with automatic leveling from Vocal Rider. This 3-click solution revives an old-school engineering technique and avoids the squeeze and pumping of compression for clean, exact levels.

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[JayTheYTGuy]

What I like to use in my chain is…

1: Surgical EQ
2: Vocal Rider
4: Noise Suppression (for room bleed)
5: De-esser (4-5k starting point)
6: Compression (catch peaks)
7: Compression (musical rhythm, groove)
8: Upwards Compression (word clarity)
9: Enhancing EQ
10: Harmonic Enhancer
11: Doubler/Widener effect
12 De-esser (mildly time overall hiss)
13: Limiter (mildly tame overall peaks)

Reverb:
Long- Hall, no attack, 3-5 ms
Medium- Plate, 10-30 ms attack, 1.5-2.5ms
Short- To taste, no attack, 5-1ms

Note: I add a ducker to the Long Reverb to tuck it behind the vocal to keep the vocal prominent and up front in the mix. 3-6 db, 6-10 ratio.

Delay:
Long Delay: 1/2
Medium Delay: 1/4 or 1/8
Short Delay: Slap delay

Note: Play around with filtering 300-5k. I typically go around 500-3k. Also, sometimes I ping pong (H-Delay) and do a lofi mode with analog off to take away hiss.

Parallel Compression:
HPF out the lows, Compress the hell out of it, enhance back some body or 3k clarity.

Note: Use Limiter last to catch peaks and make vocals less plosive and pumping sounding (unless you like that)

Extra: Sometimes I use a bus for the widener and/or harmonic enhancer on vocals instead of the actual chain.

Hope this helps.
-Jesse

[nebstaism]

It’s dope to use this after compression then going into more compression 💯👌

[carriesolomonmusic]

I have it, and it is great!! Before Vocal Rider, my vocals disappeared in the mix unless I used a ton of compression, which gave the vocals a kind of grainy distorted sound. Now I don’t have to compress so much and they’re clearer. Still upgrading my mic and equipment but this was a huge step in the right direction

[maplefoxx]

Yea, you can just throw it on your track as the first plugin like a regular fader rider but to get the most out of Vocal Rider route all your instrument tracks into a buss, have that buss being sent direct into Vocal Rider as a side chain, and have Vocal rider on your main Vocal Buss/Folder...that way your vocals are being side chained to the music, that is what the 'music' knob is for, to set the amount of your music tracks you want going into the vocal rider ... has Waves ever explained this?

[leopera]

I’ve tried on many projects and it only works about 10% of the time, for the most part makes things sound somewhat unnatural (and I’ve tried using it both as a clip gain fader or a post compressor touch-up fader) so end up doing all my clip gains and automations manually for best result 🤷‍♂️

[therealsociallyawkwardtv]

What’s the difference between regular and live?

[draco]

Can I use this to add air to a vocal ?

[caioteixeira]

I love how they didn't showed the rendered audio wave 😂

[GTSongwriter]

Vocal Rider vs MV2. ....edit... Which one is better??

[RayoBeatz]

Personally, I always think less is more the more simple your mix the better If I have to dump 30 plugins into my tracks just to get the sound I want something went wrong during the recording process to begin with. I feel its important to have a treated room, a good microphone, good preamp, good cables, good word clock, good singer too just being honest here or rapper someone with flow and energy and some good monitors my "chain" is going to be very simple I do attenuations and corrections I don't feel anything needs to be added to the voice i also don't want to take away anything i simply shape and fix areas that have tiny sounds or mud to make them clear notice i say clear i didn't say i add gain to a frequency I simply shape around the area I hear lots of "boom" and "conening" i don't boost anything with my eq if i need to hear something louder I will use my fader and automated fading so Corrective EQ + Compression compression is used to even things out and can also be used to add grit or smoothness I like to use it as transparent as possible I don't like to color my sound I will just level things out so that even the low parts are as loud as the loud parts and the loud parts do not peak and remain within a good audible range without clipping from there I will De-ess. But I must admit I did skip over some important steps which is cleaning the vocal tracks by using rx and taking out breathes and really I like to leave them in but minimize them depending on the type of genre in an rnb for example breath can be useful to create intimate vibe where for pop or rap it might not be as desirable then I analyze the track and because I record the room first I use that as rendering for use with noise reduction tools I like my vocals clean + clear After EQ+COMP+DE-ESSING I will use my ears and my faders and panning knobs to place things where they need to go the last thing I do is print the entire session up to 3 times with different db intervals one at -10 one at -6 and a copy at 0 db in wav format then I start a new session and use ozone 9 if not I will send it off to an actual mastering house because thats where the real magic happens

[stackoverflow_]

did they literally say idiot proof lmao

[josicx]

Somehow it tends to sound a bit unnatural in my productions

[DukehBeats]

I think he could've dialed in those settings better thoá

[lacikollar]

Your emotions may have been impacted by using this plugin in an unnatural way.

[TheBlackJewelz]

That is, only if you’re willing to pay for it every year

[OneBiteBeats]

Idiot proof is insane, very powerful plugin.

[SaixanMobile]

just use a compressor.. it does the exact same

[BabadookJesus]

Everyone who bought this plugin got played playa. Any compressor with the “hold” function can produce a one for one replica of this 250$ software. A YouTuber did a test and the signals between the pro c with a fast attack and medium release with the hold function turned down and the vocal rider were identical. Come on.

[SahilDardi]

Fruity balance n peak controller so simple .. no need of this costly plugin

[bobby]

Using vocal rider on a song is really dumb and ur trash if u do. I love waves. This plug in is better served for content creation and podcasting