EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO MIX MODERN RAP AND HIP HOP SONGS AND BEATS IN A HOME STUDIO

If you’ve struggled getting your rap and hip hop songs to sound modern and powerful this tutorial is for you!

So many rap mixing and mastering tutorials don’t explain WHY they use certain plugins or they they are listening for. Watch Bobby from Raytown Productions mix a modern rap/pop song from start to finish – including how to mix a tracked out beat and how to make vocals crispy and airy.

These industry secrets will work for ANY song and genre and are SO SIMPLE once you understand what to listen for.

This video will show you what plugins sound great on a rap vocal chain or which plugins work best mixing beats. Most IMPORTANTLY, learn WHY each plugin is used and HOW to use them correctly so you can get your songs sounding HUGE.

Stick around until the end, to learn some modern vocal production tricks that will make your music a banger!

Timestamps 

0:00 Intro
0:23 What this video is about
1:17 Getting started
2:19 Mixing the Kick Drum
3:05 EQing the Kick Drum
3:28 Mixing Kick Drum with 808s
5:26 Adding Deep Bass To 808s
6:13 EQing 808s
6:56 Snare Samples
8:10 EQing Snare
8:50 Envelope Shaper on Snare for Punch
11:21 Adding Delay and Reverb to Bell for Size
13:25 Mixing High Hats
15:14 EQing High Hats For Smoothness
16:21 Mixing Instrumental Loops
16:30 Diagnosing Potential Mixing Problems
18:16 Balancing Remaining Elements of Beat
18:51 The Slate Virtual Microphone System
20:24 Using Slate Digital Virtual Microphone System
22:51 [Q] Are mic choices all about personal preferences or are some fine tuned to frequency ranges?
23:46 Making Everything Fit Together
24:24 Adding Air To Vocals
26:07 Compressing Vocals For Consistent Performance
26:44 Compressor Vocal Settings
27:38 Setting Compessor Attack To Maintain Vocal Delivery
28:22 Using a 2nd Compressor To Polish the Vocals
31:11 Adding Vocal Effects (Reverb, Delay, Phase Shift) To Make Vocals HUGE!
31:28 Adding Width
32:04 Adding Delay for Wash
33:48 Adding Reverb for Width and Space
35:44 My Crazy Delay Effect
36:35 My Vocal Production Secret With SoundToys Little Alter Boy
38:57 Listening to Vocals In Context With The Music
39:47 My Vocal MIXING SECRET – Adding Clarity to Mix by Sidechain Compressing Delays
43:18 Harmonies – Mixing
44:51 Harmonies – Adding Effects
46:04 Making Vocals More Powerful
47:19 Mixing Ad Libs and Adding Telephone Effect
48:24 Making Ad Libs Dynamic With SoundToys PanMan

How to mix a Tracked Out Beat and Rap Vocals | Mixing a Rap Song From Start To Finish

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PLUGINS USED

🔗 Waves RBass: bit.ly/2SBEB2V
🔗 Waves CLA76 Compressor: bit.ly/2uEzk1a
🔗 Waves CLA-2A Compressor: bit.ly/3bERyAt
🔗 Waves C6 Multiband Compressor: bit.ly/2UROM4y
🔗 Lexicon PCM90 Reverb: bit.ly/3eg25To
🔗 SoundToys Little Alterboy: bit.ly/2QVZ8gE
🔗 Fabfilter Pro C2 Compressor: bit.ly/31LB0SC
🔗 Waves H-Delay: bit.ly/3hPm0dW
🔗 Waves L1 Limiter: bit.ly/2SBr4qN
🔗 SoundToys Microshift: bit.ly/356PaBl
🔗 SoundToys PanMan: bit.ly/32EG3orht…

GEAR USED

🎙Slate VMS ML-1 Microphone (Vocals on Song): amzn.to/3eixrsI
📷Canon 77d: amzn.to/2BmN6sq
🎤Rode Microphone (Video): amzn.to/35psYTx
🗜Boom Stand for Mic: amzn.to/2YYjn0O
💡Ring Light: amzn.to/2Yj6qzB

SUPPORT THE ARTIST

💎 Artist: Devin Kash
🎶 Song: Lonely
🔗Music: open.spotify.com…
🔗 IG: instagram.com/de…
🎤 Engineered, Mixed, Mastered: Josh Holland at Green Light Studios

SOCIAL

📹 Twitch (Watch LIVE!): @raytownproductions (twitch.tv/raytow…)
🔗 Facebook: @raytownproductions (facebook.com/ray…)
📷 Instagram: @raytownproductions (instagram.com/ra…)

CONNECT

📧 E-mail: bobby@raytownpro…
💙 Website: www.raytownprodu…
⭐ Blog: www.raytownprodu…

 These links help support my blog! 

Some are affiliate links and they are the cheapest I could find anywhere online. I receive a small tip from each sale (basically like buying me a cup of coffee ☕ for helping you out with these high-quality videos).
It’s a win win, and I very much appreciate it 😀

AND we will use the same plugins, so if you have any questions you can just send me a message! 

FINAL THOUGHTS

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