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Originally Posted by Jasonc206
I'm wondering if anybody could help me. I'm working on some songs, that I need to set the vocal within the instrumental. I already did some vocal Dynamic processing to even the vocals out. What would be some next steps to get it to sound more professional and sit within the instrumental?
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Are you recording vocals tracking to this already produced instrumental track?
That should go pretty much the same as if you were recording from the ground up. As in, go for takes where you nail the performance. Punch in as needed.
What you can't do is finesse anything else around the vocal like you might do if you had the whole mix up in front of you. You might need to edit that two track here and there. You might need to do something like pull out a multiband compressor to reduce the volume of a single instrument if something pokes out and gets in the way. Exaggerated example: A guitar soloing over the part you now want to put a vocal over.
You still have your mixing board and all your tools. You have control over the vocal tracking.
There might be a need to match or find a copacetic vocal ambience production (verb/delay/etc) to match what's already baked into the instrumental 2-track.
A 5.1 mix will certainly be out of the question though!