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Posted by Vyper0987 on Mar-05-2005 06:27:

Successive Vocal Tracks

just wanted to ask everyone's opinion on this. what do u think about mixing successive tracks together with vocals? personally, i'm not really a fan. let me know what you guys think.

Posted by Psiweaver on Mar-05-2005 07:23:

don't like it vocals i usually find cheesy though a few a set can usually be good.

Posted by Tegu on Mar-05-2005 07:37:

vocal tracks back to back isn't very hot

i like to split them up

Posted by webbie on Mar-05-2005 10:01:

I dont like vocals at all altho i think it rocks to play a cool
stabbing vocal in a tune or a sick laughter just in the buildup.

Posted by i got big pants on Mar-05-2005 14:26:

im not a big fan of vocal tracks, but they're still good. i like to play a nice mellow vocal track after playing a somewhat hard record as a way to kind of relax from what just happened, then after that...go into something with not too much vocals but a lot harder than the previous one bringing back the feel to the mix

Posted by 3xx3r7 on Mar-05-2005 16:51:

At one of the venues, where I played, I had to do it. Did not sound as awful as you people say.

Posted by Inertia on Mar-06-2005 10:56:

even though most cheesey house DJs resort to this all the time, it can be well done, if the vocals fit. one of the 2 tracks has to be a track where the vocal is used more as a 'tool', like, more of a sample, to add to the vibe of the tune than anything else. like it's not just saying something, or regardless of what it's saying, it sounds like an instrument in the track. many techno tunes have vocals like this, run thru vocoders and such, where the lyrics are basically indistinct anyways.

ie.

Anthony Rother - Bodytalk
into
LFO - Freak

Frank Lorber pulls this INSANE MIX off beautifully on his 2004 Sputnik Intensivstation set.

Posted by zoomzoom on Mar-07-2005 07:43:

It all depends. Most times, I feel like sucessive vocals can be too much, but depending on where I'm at in my set, the energy level, the key, or just what I feel like doing, I may drop a couple vocals back-to-back.

When doing it, you just have to make sure that the vocals don't clash. Make sure you leave yourself at least 8 or 16 measures between where the outgoing track's vocals end and the cued track's vocals begin. Overlapping vocals is bad bad bad.

Posted by Solkanar512 on Mar-07-2005 23:45:

To be honest, I don't really pay attention to the number of vocal/non vocal tracks I play. To me, the voice is an instrument just as much as a synth is, so I don't really see the reason for making a big deal out of it. In a 1.5 hour set, you'll usually hear maybe two or three. For my house sets, I tend to do a few more, as I'm a fan of the classic Jazz divas.

I have a few friends who were huge fans of vocals, or simply wanted to hear a set full of stuff they could sing along to. So I did a whole set of vocals. To be honest, it was fun,a nd worked out fine. I'm still wondering what the big deal about vocal vs. non-vocal is.

Oh well.

Posted by Desty Nova on Mar-08-2005 02:36:

If you can harmonize it well you can pull some sweet mixes. I've found that two multi-lyric vocals together is trainwreaking, though.