That obviously helped a lot from the get go. We’ll tweak it more in a minute, but lets see what we can do about the excess low mids. Leaving the filter in place, disable any low shelving EQ you may have and find your Low Mid bell shaped EQ. We’re going to use the same method we used before to find the frequencies we want to cut. Grab the gain knob on your LM EQ and crank it up a ridiculous amount, say 12-15dB. This should sound nice and honky now. Now, grabbing your EQ’s frequency knob, slide the bell up and down the frequency spectrum until you find the woofiness around 700 hz. Now that we’ve identified the woofiness (to my ears it’s right at 715hz), pull your gain back down to around -2 dB. The interplay between my new EQ cut and my filter could use a touch more adjustment, so let’s scoot the LC filters frequency up to 130hz.
MPM008 - Boost to find the bad freq
MPM009 - Then cut the gain to remove.
Alright, that helps clear out the low end a bit. Now lets add just a touch of high end to add some sizzle to her vocal. Use your Hi Mid bell EQ to boost and sweep around 3-5k. Once you find the spot that really accents her particular vocal range, pull your gain back down to a more modest 3 dB bump.
MPM010 - Adding some sizzle with 3 dB @ 5.3k, Q of 1.3.
Now switch over and bypass your compressor plugin real quick just to get a better idea of what kind of dynamic range this vocal has. It’s huge. During the big lower notes she belts like a freight train, but towards the top end of her note range her voice can’t deliver quite the same amount of power. That’s not uncommon at all, but it’s something we must account for nonetheless. The trick will be to pull it off without anyone being able to hear what we’ve done. It should just sound like a great vocal when we’re through, not a great processed vocal. This isn’t Cher after all.