17th Session - Posted on 2016-04-26 by Brian Powers

4-25-16

Yesterday I got to run a hip-hop session for a producer, James Whitaker and his artist Denzel.  John already had the TLM 103 setup and running into the Focusrite pre-amp.  John showed me how he likes to use a good amount of compression when tracking vocals.  We used the RVox plugin to fit this need.  I imported the song or beat, set the input correctly, record enabled the track and we were recording.  Denzel had 3 songs to put vocals on and was done in about an hour and a half.  John showed me how he likes to record doubles twice so he can pan them hard left, hard right and have the center with a different vocal setting.  On one of the songs Denzel provided the hook.  We had him record it 4 times: 1 straight up the middle clean, 1 straight up the middle distorted, 1 hard left, 1 hard right.  John then sent them all to a vocal stem and added EQ, reverb and delay.  John mixed the three songs in about an hour and we were done.