Duration – 6 Weeks with 2 classes in a week of 2 hrs Each
Fees: RS 50,000/-

In almost every recording, the lead vocal is the most important element to engage the listener. It is the emotional driver of the record, and what draws us in. If you are an aspiring or established producer, engineer, mixer, or even a recording artist, songwriter, or otherwise connected to recorded music, Vocal Production will be a primary foundation for your art and craft. It will guide you through the essential concepts and methods to master the craft of vocal production.

This course will first give you background about the importance of the vocal since the earliest days of recording, the technologies that enhanced vocal recording, and why listeners focus first on the voice as the most communicative instrument. You will then delve into the often overlooked yet absolutely essential phases of “preproduction,” which can help ensure the easiest, quickest, and ultimately most successful recordings once your vocal session begins. The course then explores the recording session, including guiding your vocalist to the most fluid and convincing performance through the use of often-invisible yet very complex methods, such as singing for the comp, vocal doubling, stacking and thickening, harmonies, and backing vocals. The course then focuses on post-production elements: advanced comping, subtle tuning, and timbre enhancement to create the most compelling final vocal tracks. The course culminates with more advanced vocal mixing, where creative use of technology can enhance the vocal and its focus to even further heights.

By the end of this course, you will have perfected a producer’s perception of what makes a vocal reach through to a listener, bring them into that recording, and hold them there. You will have enhanced your “producer’s ear” to successfully guide a vocalist to their best and truest performance. You will also have gained the engineer’s knowledge and basic skills to ensure the quickest, most fluid, and creative recording of those vocals, and the skills to enhance them and mix them to the full satisfaction of the producer, the artist, and the audience. These combined skills will allow you to apply your abilities to many roles, from producer to engineer to vocal producer/engineer to artist to avid fan of recorded music.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

Prepare for a vocal recording session, both as an engineer, focusing on the technical aspects, and as a producer, focusing on the personal, creative and artistic aspects of the vocalist
Run a recording session with technical fluidity and an interpersonal mastery to bring forth the best and truest performances
Compile a final vocal track that has both a consistency and maximum impact of emotional and dynamic growth, staying true to the artist and the song
Enhance that vocal with additional tracking, harmony, etc., as well as technical processes, in order to increase the impact of that compiled vocal performance
Mix a vocal track so that is has the proper size, placement, and focus within a total mix

Syllabus

The Vocal in Recorded Music
Knowing Your Singer; Knowing Your Song
Pre-Production: Initial Steps for the Producer, Engineer, and Artist
Vocal Session Preparation – It’s All About the Singer
The Scratch Vocal
Producing the Vocal – Creating a “Keeper” Take
Advanced Vocal Performance: Enhanced Conviction & Singing to the Comp
Advanced Vocal Editing: Final Comp, Tuning, Timbre Changing, Stretching
Making the Vocal Bigger: Doubling & Stacking; Harmonies; Background Vocals
Vocal Mixing
Creating a Vocal-Focused Final Mix
The Producer/Engineer, The Self-Producing Artist, and the New Vocal Production