Originally Posted By: rayc
Originally Posted By: MusicVillain
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We have zero commercial aspirations...

Just previewed Janice Merritt's songs. The vocal pitch on-tune, vocal loudness, vocal EQ clarity, vocal sidechain effect, are for sure on the commercial level.
Can I ask what plugins were used in the vocal processing chain?

You'll find that Janice's pitch is "on tune" because she sings "in" tune.
A wonderful set of pipes wonderfully employed.
Bud is the engineer and keeps things clean & simple on the way in as well as in the box.
If you check thier posts in the User Showcase you'll be able to read the vocal & other chains used as Bud n Janice are generous with their information and don't hide any secret sauce - none being required when the true sauce is at the source.


Firstly thank you Ray for those remarks. Nice to read that over morning coffee smile
MusicVillian, the vocal chain is very simple. We’ve used Izotope’s Nectar for decades and rarely anything else. And all we trigger from Nectar is slight EQ (presence bump at 5K), very light compression and light reverb. Almost all her tracks are one take and we’ve never used any pitch editing over 37 years of recording. I’ve no issues with pitch editors but I do not ascribe to the popular notion that it is needed by everybody regardless of how good a singer they are. OK, enough and here’s hoping my wife does not read this as she is stunningly modest! smile

Bud

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