Alan Walker - Faded / Vocal-Sound

[Hemke KayParticipant]

Hi guys,
in Germany this one is leading the charts at the Moment. I heard it a few times now and I so fell in love with the sound of the vocals. They really have a nice vibe to me and especially this huge vocal-reverb sounds amazing to me, eventhough the whole production is really well done.

Can anybody tell me how this vocal-sound was done? Couldn't find any information about that. I would love to learn something about that.

I'm excited what you guys think... Here is the Link btw: http://youtu.be/60ItHLz5WEA

• This topic was modified 8 years ago by Hemke Kay.
• This topic was modified 8 years ago by Hemke Kay.
• This topic was modified 8 years ago by Hemke Kay.

[Guido tum SudenKeymaster]

This is just a guess: I would say the vocals were sung very soft and then compressed hard because you can hear a lot of air. Since you hear almost no breathing I would say it was edited out (or turned way down).
The reverb is probably a huge plate or IR. There seems to be a long delay in there, that has a huge reverb on it, as well.
Melodyne was used a lot and is audible especially on high notes (as if the singer couldn't get there ;).

[Hemke KayParticipant]

Thanks for your answer!
I was thinking quite similar to that. But I also thought that the reverb must be also compressed in some way, because it's so smooth and even the whole time. Maybe there is also some Stereo-widening going on?! I really like the reverbed-Delay on the vocal! This Sounds so huge and wide... I have to try that soon!!

In this case, do u use the reverb as an insert on the delay return or is it also better to use it as a send so that I can also send other tracks to it?

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by Hemke Kay.

[Guido tum SudenKeymaster]

I don't think that there's any dry signal from delay coming through.
So, if you use a send from the delay channel you would have to make it a pre fader send and then turn the delay down.
I think it's easier to have a reverb inserted into the delay AUX and then have a similar or same reverb on another AUX for reverb only.
Sorry, I'm not good enough to hear a compressor on a reverb but EQing reverb is quite common and I would try that first.

[Hemke KayParticipant]

I also do not hear any compression on the reverb, but since the reverb sounds so present, even and huge it just was a guess 🙂 I will try it out next time 🙂

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