Tutorials
How to EQ vocals
w/ Fab Dupont
How to EQ vocals
27 min • 2011
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese
The singer still tends to be the most important element of a modern pop song, sorry bass players.
Anyone who's ever mixed a record will know how difficult it can be to get a great sounding vocal when it’s surrounded by 50 other tracks in the mix.
In this tutorial Fab Dupont gives you all the principles of EQing vocals. He explains his techniques and gives you 3 fascinating examples of how to get pro sounding vocals.
He’ll show you how to:
- Make precise and gentle moves with EQ
- Remove whollyness and extra fat
- Fix resonances, notching out offensive frequencies
- Dial in a neutral sound on both male and female vocal sounds
- Balance functionality and feeling while EQing
The downloadable exercise files contain the instrumental tracks and the vocal tracks Fab used in this video, download them and EQ them yourself.
Plugins Used:
- Sonnox Oxford EQ
- Avid EQ3 7-Band
- Waves Q6
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72 reviews
Jbarton_3 • Thursday, September 22, 2022
Exactly what I needed! To the point and clearly explained/demonstrated!
JCnldffo • Thursday, September 1, 2022
My bad. The exercise file link is ok. Just needed to login again.
Luka Panik • Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Glad he's not a stand up comedian. Good video.
murray.g • Sunday, April 4, 2021
Fantastic Video. I'm learning how to listen.
billabong859 • Saturday, February 27, 2021
Great tutorial and, as always, excellent extensive A/B comparisons. The power of subtle notches!
uachmusica • Saturday, December 19, 2020
This is the best Vocal Mix video i've seen, ever!
Jamesbtex • Saturday, November 21, 2020
You should have the ability to download this video. Currently there is no way to download the video.
Adis Cengic • Thursday, August 27, 2020
We need more deeper course on different type of vocal like male rap/trap vocal.
LuvSum Music • Thursday, August 20, 2020
Another well-explained and informative video. Thanks!
dannzy1 • Wednesday, July 1, 2020
so simple but effective, my first lesson and I'm glad i found it. top man
Deadlyxian • Wednesday, May 13, 2020
my fav teacher and best producer after dr dre
gopalmetro • Monday, May 11, 2020
I adore this.
JorgeZM • Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Thanks!
anderslystell • Thursday, January 2, 2020
@Fabulous Fab
I really appreciated this video. Quite amazing how even and well suited the vocals became after your tweaking.
Do you work this way and then apply compression?
建為. • Thursday, January 2, 2020
thanks lots~~~~ it's really practical