From the course: Vocal Production Techniques: Editing and Mixing in Pro Tools

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Processing vocals with EQ

Processing vocals with EQ - Pro Tools Tutorial

From the course: Vocal Production Techniques: Editing and Mixing in Pro Tools

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Processing vocals with EQ

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- [Teacher] No matter what you capture from your microphone, most vocals require a certain amount of equalization to fit the sound of the voice musically into the mix of instruments in your song. Here, I'll give you some pointers on what frequency areas of a vocal will respond to specific EQ settings, and how to apply them in Pro Tools to make your vocal really shine in a mix. First, I wanna go over the different ranges of the human voice in the audio frequency spectrum. To help me do this, I'm gonna use this multi-band compressor. Now I'm not gonna be doing any compression, but this tool allows me to solo different frequency ranges and listen to those just alone, where we can really identify and isolate those ranges to hear what's going on. So let's start with the very, very low end of the spectrum. I'm talking about 60 hertz and below for male singers and about 80 hertz and below for female singers. This is what I call the unusable rumble band. This is stuff that is below the usable…

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