Hi! What is your "universal" method (obviously, everything requires adjustments) to make two different vocals sound coherent in a mix?

For example, I often have a very soft female voice in the chorus with nothing below 200hz, and then in the verses, very warm and deep male voices with content down to 120hz. Making them sound coherent is never easy! The fastest way is a dynamic eq and sometimes even multiband limiting for me.

What are your methods? Whether they are classic, automated, AI-based, or any other magic, it doesn't matter, as long as they get the job done

 

garbage in = garbage out

Both of them better record in the same room, with the same mic, with the same vocal chain, on the same day of the week, under the same moon cycle.

Under imperfect conditions, i just play by ear and use a subtle combination of eq, compression, and reverb/delay(room IR).
Opto-compressors(la2a) to fatten thin vocals and fet-compressor(1176) to tame loud breathy vocals

 

Last edited: Jun 20, 2023

Well, that's a dream

 

It's like asking 'how can I make the piccolo flute in the intro sound coherent with the bass trombones in the main part?' Simple answer, you don't, you embrace the difference. But they should sound as if they were in the same room, ofc. But different positions (front/back) would be ok.

 

Thank you for the suggestion

 

As the tiger said, they are different things, and therein lies the naturalness of it, that is why you can also differentiate one thing from another, because they have a different timbre or work on different frequencies, all you can do to make it sound "coherent" in reality will sound artificial. But more than anything, should I define what it is to "sound coherent"? do they sound stuck? do they sound similar? but I believe that wealth (and I return to what the tiger said) is in the difference between one thing and another