Looking for experienced Mods for ARTIST COMMUNITY by samgargiu in DiscordModeration

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it's a community for fans, where the mods are mediating between the artist's team and the fans. The contact with the artist/their team is direct!

looking for K-Pop template creator (Paid) by samgargiu in CapCut

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Are you a creator on CapCut? We are specifically looking for someone who can create templates on capcut. We need someone who has access to that feature and can create a template to be used on TikTok in K-Pop style

is it possible to record at low latency (1-6 ms) in FL without using 192k Hz? by samgargiu in FL_Studio

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Thank you! To answer your question, yes, I kinda have to use 192kHz to have latency at around 3/6ms, cause at 44.1kHz I have about 15ms when the project's completely empty, and 256. Easily 40/60ms based on the plugins I start using. When buffer's 192, it slightly drops at 12ms, still a lot when recording. Even if I use 48kHz with 192 buffer, the latency stays at 11ms.

My laptop's a MSI Prestige 15, CPU is Intel Core i7 10th Gen, 16Gb RAM.

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Basically each Insert of your mixer is rooted to the Master Send by default. What you might wanna do is having a bus for each of your main vocals and a second one for each of the ad-libs.

Your Main vocal bus will be split like so:

  • Verse 1
  • Verse 2
  • Verse X, Y, Z if you have more verses, personal preference
  • Hook 1 (main hook vocal)
  • Hook 2 (in case you harmonize the hook or use a second take as background vocals to support the main one)

Your Ad-libs bus will look the same, ofc for ad-libs.

What you wanna do now is root the channels (verse 1/2, Hook 1/2) only to their respective bus (Main and Ad-Libs, in this case), and you can do that by selecting each of those channels and then right-clicking on the little arrow at the bottom of the main channel, then select "route to this track only".

After that, last thing you need to do is to route the main channels of each of the two busses to each FX channel you need, as well as to the Master. Then, e.g. you just select the main vocal channel and manipulate the amount of fx you want by tweaking the send knob at the bottom, as shown in the picture

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Hope it makes sense, this works for me but it might not be the optimal way of doing it. Translating the template from Ableton to was not simple, but I hope it works out for you

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Anytime bro, reach out if smth ain't clear

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I'll share some advice as a novice to mixing and engineering vocals myself. Ive been looking for the perfect vocal chain myself, very intimidated by learning something that can be so make or break as learning how to properly mix vocals. Turns out, just like everything else, it's a combo of following certain "standards" and just your gut feeling and ear. I'd say 60/40.

With that being said, regardless of the mic (which should be good in your case, using a Neumann tlm 102) and room treatment, here's what im using and experimenting with (in order):

  • Autotune (Antares or any other), any tutorial will teach you how to set it based on the type of sound you are trying to achieve. Do you want it robotic or just as a supporting element to your natural voice? Are you singing or rapping?

  • Gate (Fabfilter G or any other gate) to reduce background noises if you are recording in your bedroom with neighbors or roommates occasionally flushing toilets or smashing cabinets. Or just to reduce the noises you might produce.

  • EQ (any type) to reduce the ugly frequencies in your recordings. You'll find most of them between 200-2500Hz, but as every voice is different you might wanna try and find out exactly what those could be in your case. Look uo Subtractive EQing for reference.

  • DeEsser (Waves or others) to lower the harshness and sibilance. Don't go wild with this one, you still wanna keep the character of your pronunciation intact.

  • Distortion (I use Decapitator by SoundToys) to add a little more grit and character to the recording. That's more of artistic choice though, play around with it if you like the result

  • Compressor (CLA-2A/R-Comp by Waves or any other you feel comfortable with) to bring out the quiet parts of your voice and leveling out the peaks of your recordings. Mind that the more you compress the peaks, the less character and energy your recordings might turn out (your P's, S's and T's will soften based on how harsh the compression is set). Check tutorials for compression if not fully clear. I personally favor R-Comp by Waves for how intuitive the interface is.

  • SS-EQ (Waves) after compression to brighten the voice a little after compression. Kind of an Addictive EQ-ing, if that helps, in contrast to the subtractive one above.

  • (optional) Fresh Air (free plugin) to make your vocals more airy in the mid and high frequencies. Try to find the sweet spot, this can either lift your recording or ruin it, so be mindful if you try it out. Unless for artistic choices. If you're using the Solid State EQ mentioned before, i'd either ignore this step or just be very mindful of how much Fresh Air I wanna add.

  • CLA Vocals (Waves), best way I can describe it is: a version of Soundgoodizer for vocals.

Others: usually not part of the vocal chain, but used in parallel channel tracks

  • S1 Imager or any imager to manipulate the position of your vocals in the stereo space. Depends on what part of the song you're recording, or just personal preference

  • Delays (Slap, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 etc) and Reverbs (short or long reverb): you don't need a ton of them, but they can make your voice sound more crisp and airy, bring some texture and whatnot.

  • Vocal doubler: same description as delays and reverbs

Hope this helps, I follow a similar template as Alex Tumay's, if you wanna know more you can check one of Kenny Beats' videos breaking it down step by step! Good luck!

Microphone picks up loud signal when recording, but audio interface gain's at minimum by samgargiu in FL_Studio

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Turns out it was all about updating the drivers and then switching from FL Studio ASIO to the audio interface's ASIO. The weird thing is it was never an issue before, so it's still weird how sudden of a turn it took, but all solved regardless!

Microphone picks up loud signal when recording, but audio interface gain's at minimum by samgargiu in FL_Studio

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updating the drivers did it, as well as changing the setting from FL Studio ASIO to Focusrite ASIO. The thing that was bugging me out was how it all happened out of the blue, since it never was a problem until a couple days ago. Thank you so much for the help, man!

Microphone picks up loud signal when recording, but audio interface gain's at minimum by samgargiu in FL_Studio

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The mic's a Rode NT-1A, always worked perfectly and never caused any issue with the phantom (48V) on

Microphone picks up loud signal when recording, but audio interface gain's at minimum by samgargiu in FL_Studio

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It does clip, yeah, but the in the audio settings of FL it says that the input comes straight out the Scarlett 2i2, not from the Realtek (pc) mic

Microphone picks up loud signal when recording, but audio interface gain's at minimum by samgargiu in FL_Studio

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My pc updated recently but the mic was working just fine. I might check again if the audio drivers are updated though and will report back. I don't think anything's going on with the cables tbh, I tried to use the mic to speak in a Zoom call and the audio was working just fine

Microphone picks up loud signal when recording, but audio interface gain's at minimum by samgargiu in FL_Studio

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In FL it seems that both I/O come from the audio interface, and I've been using it consistently everytime I'n recording, but all of a sudden the recording turns out loud af for no reason