- [Audience 1] This is with the original pre-mix on it?
- [Jay] Yes. So, it's really spicy and dicey.
So, I'm getting rid of all of this.
I'll duplicate it.
I see that we need Auto-Tune, just for this one.
I take the rest of these.
I see what they're doing though, first, and then I ask myself why.
You never know. You want to see what they're trying to interpret.
Come over here.
You see the De-esser, and you were like, "Oh, it was really spicy.
So let's see why it was spicy."
It's not even hitting the De-esser.
You can see how compressed it is.
So, basically, it's in the track.
But we come over here, we recall the track presets.
We go to Jaycen 2021.
We take the CLA and we put it on clear,
so it's not doing anything.
And we wonder how this is going to sound, probably really spicy.
So, I see the problem that they have, they gave a whole bunch of high end to it
because it needs it, but it also, the yeses
are extremely... noticeable...
but they've...
It's actually in it.
Yeah, so these are the worst vocals that you can possibly get.
So you just make them work.
And that's one thing with bad vocals.
- [Audience 2] They are panned to the left?
- [Audience 3] [inaudible].
- The hum I don't care about. It's the other stuff.
So, it sounds a lot better.
So I'm going to take the El Rey off because I want a really
in your front, in your face vocal.
I'm going to come with the MV2.
I'm going to hit it with the preset, the standard preset.
Squeeze.
I usually take this down to minus three, and I check it out.
I love it, but what I don't love is all that stuff that's before it.
So I'm taking the Spectre off, and I'm bringing the pre...
I'm taking all that out.
So, we go back to our MC404.
And remember, we're trying to keep these two at the same peak level
and that's going to show where our bands are going to end up being.
That sounds good.
I'm going to come over here.
So then you come with your last one here.
This is what I usually use for my problem frequencies.
So this is when I add in the parallel compression.
I absolutely love CLA.
I really think it's a powerful tool if you use it as a complimentary plug-in as...
instead of something like the total workhorse.
This gives me the added parallel compression or maybe the added topping
if I'm looking for it, or a widener, or whatever I'm looking for.
But usually, 9 times out of 10, I'm using its parallel compression for me.
So you have your natural signal and then this is the parallel
getting slowly added into it.