Originally Posted by TuneMonger
Another great effort from you. I would never have guessed you had all the obstacles you described, it turned out quite well. You get better results than I do with AI vocals, I would like to know your secret. Well done, Brain!
Thank you for your kind feedback, Rob.

As far as the vocals, there's no secret, but of course it helps that, in another life, I rescued trainwrecks of recordings of local bands and learned a lot about vocals in the process.
The same applies to AI vocals and (to a lesser extent, as they are much cleaner and are already isolated) Synthesizer V vocals.

In a nutshell:
  • Extract the vocal stem using Steinberg's SpectraLayers (or if you use Suno, just download the vocal stem, as they do a good job there)
  • Convert it to mono to remove the most obvious artifacts and to remove their weird panning that happens from time to time
  • Remove as much reverb as possible (there are plugins for this) without cutting off the actual vocals.
  • Remove the remaining (and annoying) high frequency "shine" that Suno adds to most female vocals with an EQ or two
  • Send the result to a reverb and/or delay of your choice
  • Automate the vocals like crazy to make them truly expressive.
    Passion needs volume automation. A motorized fader is very helpful for this.

Depending on the source material, additional steps may be necessary, but the above covers the basics.
I care A LOT about vocals, so it can be tedious sometimes, but unfortunately there are no shortcuts.
I hope this helps you a little!

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