Recording Using a Vocal Chain in Cakewalk Sonar - Episode 101

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What's going on, it's your boy Dwan Barino from

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Not Just Music Podcast. Let's pick up from last

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week. You remember that vocal chain I was showing

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y 'all? Let's put it in action this week in a

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recording chain. Let's do it. Alright, simply

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put, let's get right back into it. I already

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have my vocal chain pulled up here. just so you

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see how i'm using this i'm actually using a bus

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channel to bus it into my vocal channel that

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i'm using here so as you can see what i showed

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you all last week is right here in this folks

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chain as you see it's pulled up got the compressor

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got an eq and i have the vx64 also i'm the reason

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why i'm bussing this into my vocal channel is

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so i'll have the option for pre and post as you

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see i have pre and post set for vocal chain reverb

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and delay And these are going to be to my advantage

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in many ways as you will hear in a second. So

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let's try this out. All right. All right. Let's

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test it out. Got the mic going over here now.

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Inside of sonar. I'm sure y 'all hear the reverb

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and the delay and my vocal chain. So let's see

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what it sounds like. Here we go. Here we go.

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It wasn't perfect, but let's see how it sounds.

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As you can hear, it does a big world of a difference.

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So one of the biggest things I'm learning is

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you could do a lot within the box. Sonar does

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a lot for us. We just, you know, we. Some of

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us just refuse to use what we have here. Let's

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check it out. I mean, let's check out the compressor,

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what I'm doing here. Not doing too much. Got

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a little bit of the threshold rolling off a little

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bit with a knee in the decibels of 10 decibels.

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Ratio basically three to one. And like I said,

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I'm lightly compressing. I'm not even hitting

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it really hard at all. Just added a little bit.

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Added three decibels around 10 hertz just to

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get that mic just a little bit more push, a little

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bit more boost behind it. Of course, the VX -64,

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only thing I really did with it was the EQ. I

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actually boosted at one point, but I took it

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away. But I usually boost maybe about a decibel.

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in a VX -64 so yeah yeah so again come up with

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your own way inside your own DAW your own recording

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chain it's really simple to do sometimes sometimes

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I think we just go a little bit too far but again

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your boy DeJuan Barino from Not Just Music Podcast

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come back next week hopefully to have KB here

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with me and we can really put this to action

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With actual rap vocals. Alright. Peace.