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Dry vocals

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Dry vocals

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- [Instructor] There are many vocals that are just meant to be dry in order to fit in the track. Here's a trick that will add a little extra something to make a fit even better. First of all, let's listen to the track. Concentrate on the vocal. ("Tall Skinny Papa" by Adrianna Marie and her Groovecutters) ♪ I want a tall skinny papa ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ I want a tall skinny papa ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ I want a tall skinny papa ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ I want a tall skinny papa ♪ - [Instructor] Sounds pretty good. It's completely dry. There is a compressor, an EQ, and a De-esser on it already, but we can make it just a little bit thicker and bigger. So the first thing we'll do is we'll duplicate the track. The only thing we wanna duplicate is the playlist. Now what we're going to do, as always, is we're going to, going to compress it. ♪ I want a tall skinny papa ♪ ♪ I want a tall skinny papa ♪ ♪ I want a tall skinny papa ♪ ♪ I want a tall skinny ♪ - [Instructor] And we wanna compress it a little bit more than we…

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