2 rappers laying down a chorus at the same time - need mixing tips!

[LDNsoundproduction]

alright people

I am currently recording a song with 2 rappers and they have decided to both do the chorus at the same time. I have recorded two tracks for each rapper totalling 4 tracks. So, I could do with a few tips on how I can mix their vocals so that they sit well together and don't compete with one another. I have compressed and gated each track. Also, each of the double tracks for each vocalist has been turned down slightly less then the first vocal take.

But what should I do with eq and panning?

Let me know if you have any tips

Many thanks
Joe

[RedBeerd]

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[xXx_Dugan_Fire_xXx]

Depends on the tone of each vocal. If you want one to stick out more than the other eq out the clashing freqs in your back up/secondary vocal. If you want them to both stand out on there own but still blend eq both. Start by cutting then if you have to boost sparingly.

[fataltone]

interested in how you tracked this
how I do it is
Chorus Track ONE:
have them rap the chorus together on one mic

Chorus Track TWO:
have rapper #1,rap (over blended chorus)

Chorus Track THREE:
have rapper #2,rap over (blended Chorus)

as far as mixing I would play around with these three chorus vocal tracks

see which one you like as a producer

if you're the mixing engineer only

let the artists decide or their producer decide

if they have no producer and you want to give input
do that

try some crazy signal processing on the vocals and see what you come up with
crazy delay on certain words
crazy reverb on certain words

if you can souncloud the track when its done so we know how it turned out

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[Yuno]

From what I'm hearing, if they both have similar timbre and they're rapping at the exact same time, you might need to resort to simply panning each a different direction (assuming you record in mono).

[LDNsoundproduction]

From what I'm hearing, if they both have similar timbre and they're rapping at the exact same time, you might need to resort to simply panning each a different direction (assuming you record in mono).

They are all in mono. I could just try a simple pan.

[The MH]

how different are the 2 voices? the panning should do good. I would take best takes of each and pan them 10-20% opposite of each other. Then I would heavily pan the back ups opposite of the main vocal its backing. giving them there own space. then maybe fade one of the lead vocals a little lower than the other depending on which artist lead take sounds better or sounds like its carrying the rest of em.

I'd follow up on dugan's advice with the eq cuts on clashing freq, then with fataltone's advice on experimenting with the reverb and delay.