VOCAL COMPING & TUNING WIZARD!

I fix vocals. I’m a highly experienced Producer from London, UK, with many name credits, working out of Key West, Florida for the last 12 years (I know, tough gig!). The music genres I work best in are anything where there are real musicians playing and singing. My “thing” is producing great, natural sounding, vibey vocal tracks.

I have perfect relative pitch (I can hear micro-bastard amounts of out of tune-ness). I don’t use any of the traditional tuning software, because imho, they’re not transparent sounding and introduce a harshness to the vocal that isn’t pleasant or natural. I found a way to tune by ear which I’ve been using ever since digital recording became the norm. Over the last 20 plus years, I’ve recorded, comped and tuned thousands of vocals this way. Many of my recording clients are probably unaware that I've used any tuning on their vocals at all!

I don’t always tune everything, part of the skill in putting a vocal together is knowing when to leave something alone. For example, sometimes slightly sharp, or above the note can sound exciting. In the real world, nobody sings perfectly in tune all the time, and perfection is kind of boring :). Performance, feeling and emotion are everything!

Give me a backing track/stem and 4 or 5 good vocal takes and I’ll put together a great, in tune vocal comp for you, or send me a backing track/stem and 1 vocal take and I’ll tune it for you.

As a bonus, if your vocal recording is a little lo-fi, I will process it through my vintage analogue mic pres, eqs & compressors (not plug-ins).

I can fix some out of tune instruments too, violins, cellos, solo horns, un-shredding lead guitars, bass.

Try me!

Tell me about your project and how I can help, through the 'Contact' button above.

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• English

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