Mixing Vocals for Home Recording

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Jesus Cardoso, and I’m going to teach you how to decide on how loud should a vocal track be in the mix. First of all, we need to consider what style of music are we talking about. Many times for rock, it is very good to have a vocal track as loud as the guitarist. The guitarists are the ones that basically give the rock feel to the song. In rock bands, nobody likes to have the vocals as loud as the guitarist. If we’re talking about pop, the vocal normally tries to stand out a little bit from everything else. Especially, if we’re talking about a song where the artist or the singer is the main person. Let’s say Christina Aguilera, then you really want to put the vocal right on top of everything else. Just make sure that if you’re mixing everything together so the vocal doesn’t stand too much from it, always try to make sure that every single word that has been sung through this piece can be perfectly heard and understood. "