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Don't let your backing vocal mixing be an afterthought. Backing vocals can define the quality of your mix. Looking back at my last twenty years of mixing, I've seen worship teams with anywhere from one to five backing vocalists. Backing vocalists can sing in different ways for supporting the song and/or the lead vocalist. Let's get down to mixing... Before jumping into the top seven ways, let's first look at where backing vocals can sit in the mix; Behind the lead vocalist as a [keep reading]
Dare I suggest the volume of your worship leader could be detrimental to the worship environment? Yes, yes I suggest that very thing. Overall audio volume level discussions are common between sound techs but I submit to you, my friends, that the overall volume isn't nearly as much of a deal-breaker, mood-killer, worship-ender, as the volume level of the person leading the song. My wife is a wonderful singer (of course!) and has spent a good amount of time singing on a worship team or two. [keep reading]
This Monday, you don't get a new article. You get the new vocal microphone and vocal EQ resource guide. Working in any live environment, especially the church environment, vocal clarity is of the utmost importance. The resource guide puts all the facets of vocal microphones into one place. This vocal microphone and vocal EQ guide covers all the facets of vocal microphones and gets you started on the microphone pairing process with your vocalists. The guide focuses on the different [keep reading]
Performing the vocal EQ'ing process time-and-time again, have you ever wondered if there was a better way? I'm a process freak. However, I've found the best way for improving a process is starting a new one from scratch. That's how I arrived at the following process I use for mixing my vocals. Clean your room! EQ'ing a vocal is a lot like cleaning out a messy room. Take for instance, the messiest spot at your place. It could be your garage, your bedroom, or a closet. If you were to [keep reading]
I was discussing reverb on vocals with a local musician whose mastered a few of his bands CD's. He said that another musician told him the amount of reverb changes with the times. "Sometimes, popular music uses a lot of reverb. But today, very little is used." If you apply it to a genre like pop or CCM, I might see a little of that. It does seem the farther apart the years, the easier to see the difference. The topic I see that needs to be raised [keep reading]
I'm Chris Huff and I've been working behind a mixer for over twenty years. Since 2008, I've been helping other sound techs learn all about the art of church audio through behindthemixer.com.
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