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Want to take a CD track, isolate the solo vocal then combine them toraise the level of the vocal but not create harshness
Just for fun, I want to add some instrumental and harmony vocal parts
to a CD track that's sparsely arranged and I think would benefit from it. Of course the original CD track was mixed for the arrangement that's on the track, so to boost the solo vocal to compensate for the added elements, I'm using a vocal isolator plugin to create a second track with the vocal emphasized. This actually works pretty well but the problem I encounter is that the resulting boosted lead vocal takes on a bit of a "honking" character, which I assume is because of the combination of the frequencies of the original and isolated vocals. What I'd like to do is get rid of this effect and make the vocal louder but retain as much of the character of the vocal on the original track as possible - i.e. louder but not harsh. What I've come up with so far is using a paragraphic EQ with the gain backed off quite a bit and a boosted section to sweep and find the frequency that yields the highest db peak, which I assume is going to be the most prominent "honking" frequency, then cut that frequency in both the isolated vocal and the original CD track. As to how much to cut and how wide a cut to make, I guess that would be matter of experimentation. Does this sound like a plan or is there a better way to do it? |
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