I have soothe 2

I've been doing pre processing with iZotope and soothe, then printing that before my vocal chain, it still is there.

It's just a balance between getting it out and not breaking the vocals.

The issue just may be boosting them too much in the high end/ getting the high mid balance right, but idk.

It's not that what I have necessarily sounds bad, it's just that I know it's there especially when listening with 6xx's

Also thank you, I'll try to add it in a little more and see if it helps

I used to rack my brain about stuff like this until I realized that your mix is only going to be as good as the stems you were given. A lot of that comes from issues that come up at the recording stage (cheap equipment, poor technique, bad acoustics, etc). When you have a situation like that you can’t “get it out” once it’s already there lmao. It’s virtually impossible.

That’s one of the biggest reasons why top mixers have mixes that sound so good. Once you have experience and you know what you’re doing it’s kinda hard to f*** up a mix that was recorded well. On the other hand all the skill in the world can’t make a bad recording sound like a good recording. At best you can get creative and craft something that sounds cohesive and unique but that clarity will always escape you. And if you keep chasing it it’ll f*** up your mix.

A plug-in like soothe or gulfoss can help when you have harsh frequencies that are hard to lock onto with a traditional EQ but the best approach is to ACCEPT THE FACT THAT THE NOISE IS THERE lol. Mix WITH it lol. You can’t sculpt a golden statue out of a concrete block. You just have to go with it and get crafty. Shift the focus of the listener away from the problem instead of trying to “get rid of” the problem.

my favorite mix ive done

Autotune makes my vocals mad distorted any1 know how to get around this

describe the process

U hearing L3 on Mike’s masters?

Cap. I’ve done extensive work with S Tier engineers & they put it in front. Has nothing to do w being a noob. Depends on what you prefer. Tuning After compression & everything might cause unpredictable artifacts

not necessarily bro , there’s a lot of things that can cause that

also if you’re chillin with everybody then you know there are many ways to skins a cat my friend , not worth getting too caught up in it . this is just a useful suggestion . i find in life there are very rarely immutable techniques

tuning after spectral processing is usually helpful, but idk if we’re thinking of artifacts in the same way

honestly ill have raw vocals and put the autotune on and it sounds completely different/distorted, ig the vocals are just recorded too loud idk they sound fine without the autotune

What pitch correction are you using?

Anyone have tips for minimizing system overloading in logic?

In need of a CPU whisperer

I'm using Antares autotune

Not sure, you have an a/b with it on and off?

hmm not sure what that means tbh

A snippet with auto tune on and one with it off, so that we could hear what's happening.

what's your tracking and retune speed

do you have formant on auto or classic

I know soothe but what plugin from izotope do you use?

Freeze tracks

Bounce out your midi. Working with audio is a lot less intensive. Also this opens doors for things that are harder to do with midi

I was trying out a bunch of rx tools, I think I was overdoing it tho and making things seem lifeless, and maybe even harsher.

I just have been using soothe 2 now unless there is something obviously wrong in the vocals.