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OKAY SO I WAS SENT A VOCAL THAT SOUNDS VERY DRY/DEADENED. SO MY QUESTION IS HOW DO I PUMP LIFE BACK INTO IT? ANY ADVICE WILL BE NICE. IM WORKIN ON IT AS I SPEAK SO LET ME KNOW GUYS.. IM TRYING EQ BUT IF YOU KNOW A CERTAIN TIP OR A PLACE TO START LET ME KNOW. THANKS

It's hard to know exactly what you mean. Do you mean dry/deadened, as in needing some reverb and/or delay? Or are you referring to the frequency response? Or do you mean the performance itself was very dead?

Could you post a clip of it so we can hear it?

a few things you can try..

bus the vocal to a delay, play with the delay time i usually keep it under 30ms, anything after that and it sounds more like an echo-good effect if you want a slow - open - airy vibe. keep the delay time short if you just want to add some space/life into it.
after the delay insert a reverb. the short delay adds more depth to the space then just using a reverb straight off the original track. that should widen up the vocal a little bit and give it room to sound bigger..

another delay trick.. this one i do manually and not often. but if i have a thin voice and can't get them to record a double for it, I duplicate the track. i drop it a few dBs, zoom in as close as i can and use the hand tool to shift it for a slight delay. not even enough to really notice, just enough to make it thicker. if you want to add a little Very Subtle modulation it'll make it seem even more like a double, nothing a listener would notice, just enough to make it sound slightly different from the original.



you can try some compression. double the track and put compression on one of them. leave the other one uncompressed to keep the dynamics there. then mix till they sound like one fatter track without losing the feel and dynamics.


and Eq.. it really depends on where it sounds dead. you can add some between 2k and 5k to brighten it up and bring the vocal out. or between 150hz - 300hz if the voice is lacking that bottom and just sounds too thin. i don't like to add a lot in the bottom, i usually roll off at 100-150 depending on the tone of the voice i'm working on, then i might add a db or 2 narrow eq to keep the power of the voice there.. but i work mostly with rap/spoken word artists, not singers.

i'd try the delay/reverb and compression before eq. i like to eq as a last resort when it comes to vocals. may just be me, but i like to keep vocals as natural as possible as far as frequencies. Unless it's a deep voice with too much low end, roll off the low before you put it through the compressor. if you know you don't want the frequency there in the end, it doesn't need to be compressed with frequencies you want to keep.