ORIGINAL: djoni

Try a 6 db cut at 2kHz or about 3 kHz with a medium Q width.

Did he post the track?
How can you be so specific?
Am I missing something here?

I think he read this settings in some website and wrote it here...

ORIGINAL: BluerecordingStudios

ORIGINAL: djoni

Try a 6 db cut at 2kHz or about 3 kHz with a medium Q width.

Did he post the track?
How can you be so specific?
Am I missing something here?

I think he read this settings in some website and wrote it here...

No. Just a general suggestion. I said, "TRY a 6 db cut . . ."

I didn't say it was the absolute answer; but remember the question asked for EQ suggestions, which is what I gave. This is often the "nasal" frequency area of vocals.

ORIGINAL: djoni

Try a 6 db cut at 2kHz or about 3 kHz with a medium Q width.

Did he post the track?
How can you be so specific?
Am I missing something here?

those may or may not be the specific settings but it is going to require cuts and not boosts, and around that area! It may not get rid of the nasality completely but should reduce it significantly!


PS. but if it did not work it's a good starting point to give the original poster.

"Cant make a silk purse out of a sows ear" comes to mind

The singer has a great voice except, he has a deviated septum, one nasal nostril is blocked, wondering how this can be

ummm...... EQ won't be much help!

But, ya know what worked for Sonny Bono....?

Have the singer hook up with some chick, who will change into skimpy outfits every song.

Seriously tho... The singer needs to work on developing better technique. A blocked nasal passage isn't going to cause a nasally vocal....

Sometimes a ribbon mike can help.
Or, mike like you would for a banjo.. (just kidding here)

The best thing is for the singer to correct the problem.


Kind Regards!

Kevin

Reminds me of the Peter Cook/Dudley Moore comedy skit about the one-legged man applying to play the role of Tarzan.

"So you, a uni-dexter, are applying for the role traditionally played by a man with TWO legs..."

Perhaps the singer's fine, it's the role that's wrong.

How about doing Bob Dylan covers? :)

I respectfully disagree with pdarg , as a cut in the area he suggested (2-3K as a first response) could take out all the presence in the vocal, unless you are using a mic with a big bump in that area, freq. response-wise and you need to compensate.

It is hard to give advice without hearing your track, but generally the first place you go to compensate for the "nasal sound" is EQ around 900-950. Try in that area first. If you don't have a good spectrum analyzer (actually, even if you do), vary the Q a bit and the dB until it sounds good to you. Then check with someone else to see if in the process of tuning, you have convinced yourself that it sounds good.

If nobody else is available to check your work, rip a great vocal track from someone else, play in through media player or something, and A/B with your current track (that you just EQ'd) to bring perspective.

Best,

Mark

Edited for clariy

What about doing alot of takes. and cut the best parts of each take out and form one track with them.Then hit it with effect processing (eq,reverb, etc). The best answer is singing correctly to began with like many of the above posts suggested, but obviously this will not happen overnight.

I agree. This is probably the best way to attack this. Performance, performance, performance!

I have a deviated septum, and I happen to know that it creates a more muffled sound in my case, not a nasal sound.
I suggest the singer might try one of the the stick-on springy devices you use during allergy season to pull the nostrils a little further apart to open the airway somewhat, and then, yes, record him on the unaffected side. The mic you use could also make a difference in how much snuffling it picks up from the affected nostril.