Vocal Mixing Techniques for Metal Music

In this video, Joey breaks down his favorite vocal mixing techniques for metal music! Mixing vocals can be difficult, with these techniques you'll be ready to take your skills to the next level!

00:00 - Vocal Mixing Techniques For Metal
01:15 - Tracking In Doubles
02:10 - Tightening Your Vocals
02:48 - Using EQ To Shape Your Vocals
04:06 - Compression and De-essing
05:42 - Saturating Your Screams
06:44 - Stereo Imaging
07:26 - Adding Reverb And Delay
09:53 - Final Thoughts

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Song Credits:

In Flames - "I, The Mask" (JST Cover)
In Flames - "Am Above" (JST Cover)

Tags: joey sturgis, audio production, audio plugins
#productiontips #audioproduction #mixingtutorials

[calebjacobi]

The more I watch these, the more I realize production and mixing blend together a lot

[MatDeCesare]

“Donate your chairs”

As someone who learned to engineer primarily for recording my own vocals, consider focusing more on developing a unique vocal style and having strong, clear articulation. No amount of cool vocal tricks will make your recordings better if you sound like you have a mouth full of oatmeal to begin with. 🧠🤝

[williamwalsh]

I love this content and took many notes. I have learned a lot from you through the years and always appreciate your guides.
The one point that inspired me to comment was something I dont necessarily "disagree with" but instead, wanted to spark a discussion as someone coming from a different perspective.

I wanted to bring up how adding those layers at the beginning felt when it came to recording doubles.

on the clips we're listening for a difference, my take was:

Clip 1: "Dope, this sounds good. Maybe even august burns red vibes at the first line, and a little born of osiris on the second line."
Clip 2: oh its just... he just has more screams happening.

I think the concept of multiple screams happening is used best tastefully and to reenforce sounds and messages, right?

I disagree that Clip 1 is "narrow and 2-dimensional" and that clip 2 is "wide and 3-d)

I just wanted to bring this up so no one (most likely someone new) is confused and kind of takes it for granted that "having multiple tracks = sounds better always, objectively" because it for sure doesn't, its more like a cool tasteful thing you can do sometimes! as often as you want. Honestly, go for it and do it all the time. Its your choice, but i dont think single track screams ever sound 2D if the vocalist is amazing and takes you to another dimension on their own!

(im not spell checking anything idgaf)

[metalmaid]

Dont forget, the RAW Recordings are on Point!

[xintong]

Learned. I think despite scream does not obtain octave note sound, it has lots of type of voice. Female, male, low, mid, hi scream, tunnel, fried, piggy scream. Need to treat them individually,

[CYER]

Whose vocals are at 3:36? Sounds very familiar 🤔

[lebgcestmoi]

You know sometimes I’m afraid to pitch down my vocals or add distortion to them cause i feel like I’m lying to myself and that my live performance will sound way too different from my studio performance, what can you tell me about this?

[HangtheTyants]

My god.. I don’t need you..

-In Flames.

[stephenkain]

Is that in flames with a different vocalist? Lol

[Durkhead]

No reverb and delay on vocals sounds better