Sidechained vocal delay
Well folks, last time I was writing about vocal treatment tricks so let’s continue with them. Here is a video tutorial about sidechained vocal delay in FL studio.
Delay can do wonders to your vocal tracks - really! We are so accustomed to it, that songs lacking some kind of vocal delay sound empty.
If you’ve ever tried to simply put a delay line on the vocal channel, you’ve noticed that it can make a real mess - it hurts intelligibility. To avoid this, we need to put delay only at the ends of words, so it doesn’t interfere with the rest. There are a number of approaches.
First, we could automate the wet/dry fader of the delay so it kicks in only where we want it. This gives a real presice control over the delay but the downfall is - it can take much ime to set up the automation for a long vocal clip.
Another approach is sidechaining the vocal track so it controls the delay volume automatically. In the following movie, I have my vocal track ready - routed to a channel named VOX. Instead of inserting the delay on this channel, I use a send named DELAY with a delay unit, followed by a Fruity Compressor. I have inserted a Fruity Peak Controller on the VOX channel, with rough settings as seen. Don’t forget to un-mute it, so the vocals can pass through. Then I link the compressor’s threshhold parameter to the Peak Controller’s Peak output. Notice how I rewrite te formula to “1-Input”. This means when the vocal level is high, the threshold will be pulled down and the compressor will choke the delay’s output. When there is a gap between words or at the end of the clip, the compressor allows the delayed signal to pass through.
Observe the channel strip VU and notice how the level od DELAY rises every time as VOX fades out. The compressor’s release depends on the particular material, the shorter the gaps between the words, the shorter should be the release as well.
Happy mixing!
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