Vocal editing by hand? (Offline editing)

[JamesWorthy]

Hi,

Recently I sent a song off for mastering, the engineer came back with a couple of requests which I understood just fine and have complied with however he sent one which threw me as I had no idea what he was talking about and have no idea how to carry it out. I will copy and paste the message below:

'vocal is too loud, and it also needs some offline edits, as there are some bumps around 70-80Hz'

When I then asked for clarification he sent back:

'offline edits - editing vocal in this case and removing those 70-80Hz big peaks

with pencil rather then any other processor (removing issues by hand)'

I am relatively new to the mixing process so I'm willing to come across as an idiot by asking this. If anyone has any ideas as to what this means and how I can carry it out I'd be very happy. I'm using Logic Pro X.

Thanks a lot!

 

[krushing]

I guess he means that there are some occasional bumps in that area, as opposed to just having a constant presence in that freq range, in which case you'd just use an EQ or a filter to get it out. If there are just a few bumps during the whole track, you probably don't want to process the whole thing through an EQ and possibly affect the mix just trying to get them bumps out.

 

[rhythmgj]

So on your toolbar, you should have a little pencil icon. You use this to edit with the cursor. You can hi-lite sections (or zoom in and edit with the pencil/cursor right down to the pixel level). Try hi-lighting a section and editing out the egregious area, or EQing/normalizing/volume editing, etc. It lets you do that at a much closer level/higher resolution, because affecting the whole track for those few areas would be akin to using a sledge hammer instead of a scalpel to do surgery.


PS-- Try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V-94fzpfO4