08-10-2014, 07:24 AM
Alright, now it becomes clear to me why you are using reverbs so sparingly. For the simple reason that it's impossible to judge reverbs/delays on headphones.
It may well be that also your de-essing suffers from a presence peak of your headphones. I would double check that somewhere else, e.g., in your car or at your HiFi-device or whatever you have at your disposal. The reason for saying that is, that my headphones (ATH M-50 X) seem to have such a presence peak and are also sounding overly bright in my opinion.
Anyway, as I said before on both of my monitoring systems (EMES black tv hr active (which is very true in the mid-frequency region) & Yamaha HS80M (which is quite bassy and bright)) I don't feel the need to de-ess anything in that song.
When it comes to your vocal editing I agree that it is quiet subjective. However, my feeling is that the timing isn't right anymore. Maybe it's just that there's too much perfection with your alignment.
Best regards,
Markus
It may well be that also your de-essing suffers from a presence peak of your headphones. I would double check that somewhere else, e.g., in your car or at your HiFi-device or whatever you have at your disposal. The reason for saying that is, that my headphones (ATH M-50 X) seem to have such a presence peak and are also sounding overly bright in my opinion.
Anyway, as I said before on both of my monitoring systems (EMES black tv hr active (which is very true in the mid-frequency region) & Yamaha HS80M (which is quite bassy and bright)) I don't feel the need to de-ess anything in that song.
When it comes to your vocal editing I agree that it is quiet subjective. However, my feeling is that the timing isn't right anymore. Maybe it's just that there's too much perfection with your alignment.
Best regards,
Markus