Perpetual Escape - Sin Six

[Roy]

I think vocal levels really can vary. And on a song like this they can be back a bit. They're not buried and someone else might come along and think they're fine but I think in this one they could grab you just a bit more. I think part of it is the fact that it's a heavy song with a fairly melodic vocal right at the top and I think that hi guitar part obscures it a bit. But still I think throughout they can come up a hair. Or maybe just an upper midrange boost to make them a bit more aggressive.

Yeah, I agree with that, and think you are right that it needs to come up just a touch.

Funnily enough I did boost the upper midrange a bit once I thought I was about done... I was fiddling about with that Manny Marroquin Tone Shaper thing that was given away free recently, to try and figure it out.  Might come in a bit more handy than I initially thought.  It doesn't ever occur to me to try parallel eq as a tone solution really. 

I recall trying it on a piano or something ages ago after seeing Mr Pensado demonstrate it on one of the early into the lair things.

Cheers!

That was one of the things I learned when looking into how all those initial Waves signature series of plug-ins worked and broke them down. Especially the CLA or JJP vocal ones. There's a lot of parallel compression and eq going on in those.. These days most of the time I send lead vocal to 4 or 5 parallel busses with different compression and eqs or distortion and blend them together. Throwing one out phase can create something interesting too.