The No-BS Guide to Mixing Lead Vocals

Professional vocals aren’t made with expensive gear, they’re built through great decisions one small step at a time. In this video, I break down the real vocal session from “Phase Me” by Luc de la Croixx ft. Satica and show how we turned a noisy living room recording into a polished, commercial vocal. Listen to the song below, and if you enjoy real sessions and timeless production techniques, subscribe for more. 🎵 Listen to “Phase Me”: https://music.retrogleam.com/phaseme 📸 Instagram:   / retrogleam   🌐 Website / Work with me: https://retrogleam.com Chapter Markers: 0:00 Million-Stream Vocal (Raw vs Mixed) 1:45 Clean the Lead Vocal 3:06 Vocal Compression in Stages 5:22 Creative Effect 6:12 Building the Lead Vocal Bus 11:39 All Vocals Bus 13:39 Vocal Reverb & Delay 16:04 Parallel Compression 17:20 Final Thoughts Gear/Plugins Used: Shure SM7B Universal Audio Apollo Logic Pro Fab Filter Pro Q 3 UAD 1176 UAD LA-2A UAD Fairchild 670 SSL 4000 E Soothe 2 Eventide H910 Softube Console 1 Softube Flanger Eli Mike E Comp Valhalla Vintage Verb Soundtoys Echoboy LFOTool