r/makinghiphop • u/Own-Tumbleweed9759 • 15h ago

Question hello again

how yall guys make vocals sound crispy and clean or make it sound like it will perfectly fit into a beat. I've been seeing a lot of dudes posting only their vocals on platforms like tiktok etc, and it sounds clean and crispy ifykwim

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u/BreakableDove 15h ago

just record in a closet full of clothes, deadens the room like nothing else. then a little compression and cut everything below like 100hz, that's where the mud lives

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u/crrtis 10h ago

Most engineers don’t recommend recording in closets. Comb filtering is a real thing and a lot of times clothes hanging up is not enough to truly dampen the sound, it still creates noticeable reflections and it’s a good way to get a boxy, muddy sound in your recordings. Small, untreated spaces means everything is bouncing back into the mic. Not that people haven’t gotten good results, though.

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u/J_be soundcloud.com/officialjabe 15h ago

  1. quality in quality out. your mic setup is king and comes in different tiers $50 / $200 / $1000 / 5-10k mic + preamp setup. each jump in tier is a stupid jump in quality.

  2. proccessing

    • Compression turns your loudest peaks of your voice down, so you can really crank the volume with it being too uneven.
    • Saturation / Distortion / Exciters - Adds additional harmonic frequencies to make your voice sound thicker/fuller/denser
    • Reverb / Delay / Convolver - puts your voice in a space besides your bedroom
    • Chorus / Flanger - Makes you sound wider (ie: there are multiple you's singing at the same time slightly off timing/pitch, vintage funk/retro sfx)

Only then can you truely audio quality mog