Comping mismatched takes...Lord help me!

JohnTodd 7 September 2011

I feel like a total dork. I was recording lead vocals for my latest soon-to-be-rejected-smash-hit. I always do multiple takes and later comp them because I'm terribly self-conscious about my own voice.

Anyway, in my foolishness I must have moved the microphone and kept on recording. So the first few takes are a neutral sound and the last few takes are trebly.

OK, neutral OR trebly I can deal with, but now I have them comped into one take and they are mismatched. I need a way to fix that.

I'm thinking multi-band compressor set to zero in on the treble, but I don't know enough about it. Can someone please help me?

Thanks!

Comments

Sorry about your troubles. Keep the "neutral" on one track and

dvdhawk Wed, 09/07/2011 - 11:27

Sorry about your troubles.

Keep the "neutral" on one track and the "trebly" on another, try to EQ the treble out of the trebly to get it as possible, create a bus for the vocals. If you can't get them to match closely enough - Sorry, you'll have to take 'em again.

Cubase

That sounds like a great idea. The way the phrasing is on the v

JohnTodd Wed, 09/07/2011 - 12:30

That sounds like a great idea. The way the phrasing is on the vocals there are clear breaks between the different mismatches...a little bit of editing and I can split that easily.

Thanks!