hellomoto10 Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 Hello all, I have been mixing for about a month now and have learned a lot so far. I have run into an issue which has me quite stumped and couldn't find an answer for it on the web. I am mixing a song for an artist over a 2 track beat and I have finished the mix and have all my vocals on separate tracks. (eg. Hook, Hook Adlibs, Hook Doubles, Verse, etc) I know I could just bounce the file and get it ready for mastering, however I wanted to side chain the vocals to the beat using a multi band to get them to sit in the mix better. When I try to do this, it only lets me side chain one thing like either the hook or the verse etc. I wanted to have one big audio file of just the vocals. I tried to solo all the different tracks and highlight them and bounce them ( I made sure bypass plug ins was off, I turned on volume automation and panning) normalize was off but the file came out sounding absolutely rubbish. nothing like how my mix sounds when I have them all on separate tracks. Is there a simple solution to this? thank you kindly for your help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des99 Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 Set the output of all the vocal tracks to a bus, then use that bus (which is now a mixer channel with a mix of all the vocals) to do whatever you want with it, eg put a compressor on it with the side chain set to receive the drum tracks or whatever you want to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellomoto10 Posted February 20, 2022 Author Share Posted February 20, 2022 Thank you for your reply! Im not sure if this would work because I already have my vocal tracks being bussed to different aux channels with different processing being done to them. eg. all my background vocals are being sent to bus 32, all my verse vocals with different processing being sent to bus 31, my hook vocals with different processing being sent to bus 30 so I can't send them to a new bus with all my other vocals if that makes sense? I feel like I am overthinking this but I very much appreciate your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des99 Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 So send the outputs of the various busses that vocals are being sent through to one bus instead of the mix bus, and follow the same advice. It’s just standard mixer routing stuff - it’s up to you to route the various audio channels how you want to achieve a given result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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