Ignore this post and go to Bill Robinsons's post. I hit the wrong button for a new post sorry.........................................Try this. Instead of using reverb on vocals us delay. You will want the delay to be in time with the bpm of the recording so here is the formula. Take a calculator and punch in 60,000. Divide that by the beats per minute (bpm) of the song (lets say 120 bpm)and that will give you the proper in-time delay for a quarter note which in this case is 500ms for the delay. Depending on how much effect you want on the vocal you can now do a combination of two things.

1)set the wet setting for the delay low and slowly increase till you get what you want.This is going to give you a slap back delay which is probably more than you want for most vocals. Better for a pop or standard type recording.

2)divide 500 bpm by multiples of two until you get what you want sonically while still using the wet setting for amound of signal sent.

The result is that the delayed vocal will give presense to the recording, staying up front where it belongs without becoming lost into the background. The only problem is that if the decay is set too long you may experience sibilence problems, too many pronounced ess sounds. This again can be controlled by the amount of wet signal used and by de-essing a little if needed. But the vocals sound much better than merely adding reverb because reverb is by nature more random echoing than a simple delay. If you then find the vocal texture just a tad missing then add a simple and very short reverb. Works for me all the time and really dressed up my vocals.
Steve Biedeman

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