Re:how to have inconsitent vocals at the same volume?
2012/10/10 03:32:39
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In other words...The way I see it, adjusting envelopes IS very much manual labor, segment by segment, but that's what you need to do.
After that you can add some compression. Trying to squeeze it only with a compressor, without the volume envelopes, would most likely give less satisfactory results.
Normalizing does not sound like a very good idea for this type of jobs, but if the segments themselves are of consistant and nice level, but just different from each other, then normalizing will help. At least to get you to an easy starting point. It needs to be done segment by segment, otherwise the relative differences remain. Note, that if there are parts that are meant to be soft and quiet, then normalizing will raise those as loud as the loudest parts.
And one single loud shout close to 0 dB forms a spike that prevents the normalizing to raise the overall level, so such spikes must be edited by hand/envelopes beforehand. IF you use normalize, don't go up to 0 dB, -2 - -3 dB is better,
or, if you're about to add FX, even lower.
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