How do the major records have such unbelieveable stacks of rich, perfect, harmonious vocals?
Now you'll not only know, but you're about to develop the skills to create your own Multi-Platinum Vocal sound after 4.5 hours with one of the premier vocal editors in the industry, Brady Barnett.
Over this 4.5 hour DVD-Rom, you and Brady will pour through every case of advanced vocal comping, pocketing, tuning, time stretching, pitch correcting, harmony creating, BGV conforming method to take an already great vocal performance to sounding truly Multi-Platinum!
You'll learn how major label vocals are made to sound better than life, as well as how to make your own vocals compete. These techniques are not published in any other lesson series, but are the secret to the perfection of todays modern vocal recordings.
Go beyond the basic flatline autotuning and comping you find in other series, and learn the advanced uses of Antare Auto-Tune, Serato Pitch n Time, BGV bussing techniques and more to make your vocals sound like A-list singers on their best day!
What do you get?
This 2 DVD set includes:
A 4.5-hour HD Quicktime movie and 3-gig pro vocal session!
Partial Table of Contents:
1. The session
2. Importing the Vocals
3. Prepping the Comp
4. Starting the Comp
5. Copying takes to the comp
6. Reference the rough comp
7. Picking between good takes
8. Dealing with loud sections
9. Finishing the comp
10. Cleaning up the comp track
11. Gain Adjustments and Fades
12. Compensating vocal ranges
13. Using the Scrub tool
14. Tuning
15. The Tuning Toolset
16. Tuning Choices: Keep it natural
17. When to use flatline tuning
18. Centering the notes
19. Teaming Pitch Shift with Autotune
20. When flatline Doesn't work
21. When good Autotune goes bad
22. My Tuning philosophy
23. Pitch Shift to the rescue, again
24. Keeping overlapping audio
25. Tricks of the flatline tool
26. Another Tuning Special Case
27. Quick & dirty "Auto" tune
28. Vocal Pocketing
29. Dealing with early vocals
30. How many ms should we pocket to?
31. When to time compress a vocal
32. Pocketing review for latecomers
33. Continuing the pocket
34. On top v behind the beat
35. Special Cases
36. Dealing with problem transients
37. Crossfade preferences
38. Back Pocketing the transients
39. Using breaths to your advantage
40. A few pocketing cheats
41. Finishing the Pocket
And MORE!
Who is Brady Barnett?
Brady Barnett– Independent producer and multi-platinum credited recording engineer, as well as one of the premier Pro Tools editors in the music industry.
Accomplishments include work on the Grammy-award winning "Cold Hard Truth" (George Jones), 11-times platinum "No Strings Attached" ('N Sync) and numerous other platinum and Multi-platinum records.
He has worked with some of the top producers in Nashville (Tony Brown, Dann Huff, Keith Stegall, Buddy Cannon, Norro Wilson, Frank Rogers and Brown Bannister), and his impressive client list includes such recording artists as 'N Sync, Faith Hill, Alan Jackson, George Strait, Brad Paisley, LeAnn Rimes, George Jones, Trace Adkins, Reba, Lonestar, Keith Urban and Steven Curtis Chapman.