Cakewalk Vocal Presets

[Geraldine Ferraiz]

Iused to use PerfectSpace for Vocals, but when I was recently getting clicking on my tracks, it was pointed out to me that this program is for 32 bit, and I have a 64 bit pc. I have tried some of the other reverbs that I had from purchasing Producer X3 in the past. While they are fine, at least the presets don't wow me. I realize it might be because I'm not tweaking enough, but it would be nice to have some good 64 bit compatible preset reverbs I could choose from. Can anyone recommend some excellent reverbs for vocals, either included with some Cakewalk programs or 3rd party plug ins that are reasonably priced.

There are some really nice freebies out there!! Search on Dragonfly reverbs and there is a pack of 4 different styles of reverbs in the download. Orilriver is another great freebie. These two come to mind.

There is a free version in the free pack of plugins that is wonderful because it allows you to use any of your own IRs! I had a huge library of IRs from using Perfect Space myself for many years and they all load and work perfectly in Melda. Once you try it, there is a pay version with more controls available. Either way, the freebie or the pay version, the Melda Productions reverbs are a keeper!

Meldamoonie here, but not a regular user of convolution reverbs. (I'll drop a heads-up here to suggest Meldaproductions Free Bundle fans keep an eye on their website, as we're coming into a time of the year when Vojtech runs one of his "everything half-off" sales, when you can upgrade the Free Bundle for about $25)

To the OP, my favorite reverb for anything is iZotope/Exponential Audio Phoenix Stereo Reverb, which I got on sale for $10. iZotope have now come out with a reverb of their own based on the Exponential algorithms, called Neoverb. I don't know what you consider reasonably priced, but right now it's a $99 crossgrade from any iZotope product at Pluginboutique.

"IR," used by Sidney Earl Goodroe, when he said: Since you work with Perfect Space you are probably at ease working with IRs. I guess, after looking it up, IR, simply put, means: an impulse response is an audio file that contains a capture of the inherent sonic characteristics of a piece of gear, acoustic environment, or playback system. I was going to ask what other types of plug in reverb are out there, but I really don't need to know that. I just wanted to know if an IR reverb means anything practical for my needs, though I would guess not.

You got the IR part correct, as in "impulse response". Used by one of the two loosely defined main types of digital reverbs that use mathematics to process a signal, these are known as "convolution" reverbs. Good at reproducing the "space" that was captured in the IR. _reverb

The other main type of digital reverb is "algorithmic". These are probably more common, and what you usually think of as a reverb. It is capable of emulating plates, echo chambers, springs, room sizes, delays, or pretty much anything else in the time domain.

I'm desperately trying to find one old Vocal plugin which was on some older sonar version buried in fx suite. It had a similar design as the Boost 11 so I guess it was out of those series and it came with presets as individual vst named BC vocals male, BC vocals female etc., if I remember correctly. It had some tube preamp build in it, reverb (not sure tho) and some air control. Anyone any idea what that was and if yes then if possible to get it somewhere. That thing could get such a clarity out of your mic like any other plugin I've ever came across.

No I don't. It had graphics like the boost11 or those kinda knobs like that tube leveler in the video. So I assume it came out somewhen around that era of plugin. It basically was kind of a pre amp with some "air" knob maybe some reverb and eq. There was a whole series of those plugins back in the day somewhere in the fx folder in sonar platinum.?

Then I like to split my vocal into 2 paths: one clean, and one where I can dial in a bit of grit underneath that clean vocal. That gives it hair but still retains the original clarity. On the grit path, I'll usually EQ it as well to not crowd or muddy up the main vocal sound. That then gets recombined back to the one path.

Bluecats's Patchwork is great for setting up complex chains like this, but you can also do some great stuff with a FX Chain Preset too, so you can just drop the one thing in and make tweaks rather than trying to recreate it each time.

I'll usually run 2 or 3 delays of various times, not necessarily all at once, so I can automate certain words, or use it as sustain for long notes, or as an overall "fill" effect if the vocal sounds a little spiky.

EDIT: Actually, give attached "LT Vocals.fxc" FX Chain a go - save it and drop it into your Cakewalk Content > Cakewalk Core > FX Chain Presets folder, and it'll appear in the Audio FX browser inside Cakewalk. This is a fair recreation of how I like to do my chains using only stock Cakewalk plugins, which needed a little bit of fiddling with doing split paths and de-essing, but it does the job. I've exposed all of the common controls to save you digging into each plugin, but it's editable if you need to do any fine adjustments. Yes, that *is* TH3 - the guitar effects package - in there. It's a surprisingly good channel splitter and grit-adder!

Different every time haha i go where my ears take me, I see cakewalk as about 40 Templates in the FX chain for vocal channel and mastering etc but ive never used any of the cakewalk chain templates, however;

I honestly think they should do a upgrade on VX 64 vocal strip and do a nice VST3 version (make it there own)

Really you should start with a preamp you like, pitch correction maybe, noise gate before compression so you don't make it worse, EQ with de-essing and some effects like delay reverb and maybe stereo width. This beat needs to be the VOX CAKEWALK STRIP.. get making it guys lol

VX64 is still awesome. Deesser is meh on it, but the Compander is really good. I also dial a little bit of saturation on my mid EQ band witch gives it more grittyness and the Doubler/Delay is nice. Delay is on almost every project from me.

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