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title: 'How to mix and master vocals in fl studio for beginners | 2023 update'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=_6ZAqKKMBEI'
video_id: '_6ZAqKKMBEI'
date: 2026-06-30
duration_sec: 1477
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# How to mix and master vocals in fl studio for beginners | 2023 update

> Source: [How to mix and master vocals in fl studio for beginners | 2023 update](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_6ZAqKKMBEI)

## Summary



## Transcript

hey there I want to show you how to
quickly get a decent vocal mix for your
song covers and your demo tracks even if
you've never missed a song before this
process is almost foolproof I will be
using the stock plugins that comes with
your Daw that is music making software
in this case I'll be using FL Studio now
it's important to follow this process
I'll be showing you step by step so you
can arrive at similar results okay so
right here we have Beats and Vocal Track
and first thing we'll do is we'll link
both to the mixer so I can have
individual control
so in FL Studio just double click it and
then come here Ctrl l or command LF is
the mic in fuel studio just make sure
it's linked to the mixer all right
another link to the mix we're going to
apply some effects and process into the
lead vocal now the way you apply this
effects is called a vocal chain okay
that is where you add the different
processing so the first thing we need is
pitch correction most times for popular
song genres you typically want a little
bit of pitch correction in the artist
vocal custom artists may not hit the
notes perfectly all the time okay so we
use auto tune to come to low mail and we
will look for the key of the song now if
you do not have auto key from Antares
it's an easy way to find the key of any
song We'll be using a website called
tune bats so what this does is simply
drag the song in here when you drag this
one in here it tells you the tempo and
the key but while interested in the key
for now okay so I'll simply be dragging
the beats
and it analyzes it
so C major okay
and 102 BPM which is also shown in
example because C major and a minor
relative scales okay so we'll go with C
major here C it's already in Key C okay
now the return speed is how much of the
tuning effect you want all right now the
highest is the more of the auto tuned
classic effects you hear okay and if you
don't want to hear too much of the
effect you can reduce it so that it's
just snap the note correctly okay if you
want to hear much of it but I think I'm
going to have this at nine okay because
the lower the number the more of the
effects you hear and you had the number
the less of the effects you hear all
right so let's say I have this here for
now I'll adjust this later if need be
all right next thing I need to adjust
the flex tune this Flex tune allows for
more pitch deviation makes it sound a
little bit more realistic okay less
robotic as well I'm going to enhance
this let's just increase it a little bit
okay and most importantly the human eyes
if you are singing or you're wrapping
and you notice you hold notes like the
notes things a lot of the time you want
to adjust the human eyes as well so this
will help prevent you from sounding like
a robot when you're holding notes or
trying to pitch high notes okay
so I'm going to have this here so our
listing and I'll make adjustments so I'm
going to turn off the auto tune and see
how it sounds without the auto tune
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for your signs and tricks so baby I mean
it
I'm scared to be left alone again baby I
mean
falling for your signs and tricks so
baby I mean it yeah now I'm going to
listen to you with auto tune
turned on
it
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I'm scared to be left alone again baby I
mean
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it yeah you can see it sounds almost
natural right but while I have a little
bit of that auto-tune effect okay also
we need to set our Tempo because we're
going to be applying some effects later
that require is to sync with the project
sample okay so we're going to come down
to 102 BPM which is the tempo of the
track is written here and it's also
shown on tunebat earlier so now I don't
tune in to workout the next thing I'm
going to do is use a compressor oil
compressor does that keeps the vocal
balanced it fix any inconsistency in
your loudness level so like when it
sounds more balanced and predictable on
the beat you don't have a part where the
vest or a part of the verse is so quiet
then the next part is very loud you want
it to sound a lot more consistent all
right so
going to and if you even look at let me
make this bigger If You observe the
audio file you can see some notes look
small while some look big you can see
this region right here
you can see some notes right here looks
more white some look big
this looks small
this looks this nose looks small white
this look big so I want to fix that okay
so that it sounds more consistent the
loudness level so I'm going to come
right here add a FL Studio stock
compressor okay so now there are so many
ways you can use the compressor to
achieve this result I'm going to be
sharing with you a typical preset I use
for compressing vocals all right so the
first thing I'd like to adjust my
threshold to around -20 DB okay then I
like to adjust my ratio to around 4.1
somewhere around there 4.0 4.1 okay then
I like to leave my attack at 10
milliseconds so that attacks pretty fast
it's not working pretty fast then I like
to leave my release here so I quickly
release the vocal as well okay so also
if you notice that it's squashing your
vocals too much you may need to relax
the threshold okay but if you notice
that there's still some inconsistency in
the vocal then you need to
um raise up the thresholders you need to
bring it down to about minus 30 DB also
okay so just basically adjust this if
you notice that your vocal still has
inconsistency issue okay what if it's
something squashed relax it okay so now
I'm going to listen to see how it sounds
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so I think I over squashed it so I'm
going to maybe have it around minus 20.
oh baby
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it sounds more consistent but if You
observe there's a new problem now the
vocal sounds like has been reducing the
volume and this happened a lot of the
times when you compress any element at
all okay so that's why most compressors
do have again compensation that you can
use to adjust for changes in volume so I
can simply increase it right here
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so baby I mean it
was scared to be left alone again the
behind me
falling for your signs and tricks so
baby I mean it yeah
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if I turn off the compressor here it
sounds
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I see how inconsistent it sounds without
the compressor when I turn it back on
foreign
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so we're trying to fix that
inconsistency and this is what a
compressor does fix that problem easily
okay so now that I don't compress we're
going to use an equalizer to remove
unwanted frequency from the vocal so the
vocal sits better into the mix all right
The Wanted frequency can be the modular
end of the vocal nasal frequencies right
and if your vocal does have harsh high
end also need to take that out as well
right and this is pretty easy to do so
I'm going to come right here this low
end Rumble right click come to type High
Pass right click again order step eight
and this will help sweep the
um low end frequency okay now for most
vocals depending on the mic you use and
the style of or the type of artists work
I recommend you stick within about 100
to 150 heads when sweeping you don't
want to take out too much body and
information on the low end of the vocal
okay so let's say I sweep this like um
about 120 for now
let's see about 120 somewhere around
there okay I'll listen
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I think it's only a bit too tiny so I'll
bring it back
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so just around 110 or 111 heads sounds
great okay so you you typically adjust
this depending on the style of workout
you get custom artists do have more
busier voice some have tiny voices right
while some record too close to the mic
some record with mics that have more
presence so there's so many reasons why
you want to you know adjust this to fit
your own project so remember typically
multiple cars within 100s 150 heads is
where the cutoff should be when it has
sound a little thin simply back off a
little bit all right
so next we'll do is take out nasal
frequencies okay these are resonance
frequencies around the mid range that's
from the low mid to the high means okay
so the easiest to hear it is typically
starting from the high mids which is
around this region right here so I'm
going to do it so here on how to do that
we simply use our Mouse wheel to pinch
it up
okay if maybe you don't have a mouse
wheel on your mouse you can just come to
the corresponding knob right here you
see you can adjust
so you simply reduce it okay so you can
have this then we sweep across the we
hear a sort of ring like it's talking
through in snow something like something
like that it's like it's still keep
throwing nose Okay so take that out yeah
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figure out a place that sounds the most
consistent okay so it may sound a little
bit more in in particular frequency than
in some okay so don't just test it for
the first one here so sweep across and
listing which frequency does it exactly
sound the most consistent
so we just take this down a little bit
not too much please just a little bit
okay
maybe like um one to two or tops three
DB down okay just a little bit
so baby I mean it yeah I'll also do that
right here
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let me try another frequency range
so baby I mean
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you baby
that's the point so take it down there
as well
come to this other one yeah
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so baby I mean it yeah
yeah do that as well okay
let's see this region
so baby I mean
it yeah
yeah
do that as well
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foreign
all right so it sounds a lot cleaner now
so energy worker is quite sharp so I'm
going to take out a little bit of high
end from the vocal okay because the mic
I think the mic drops used to record
this vocal was a bit too bright so I'm
going to just dampen it a little bit
now because when damping frequencies
okay don't just do a huge cut like this
okay it's usually just soft to cut about
plus or minus one to three DB okay
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stuff like this please okay we don't
want that kind of massive change just a
little bit
so baby
baby
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so when I turn up the EQ the size sounds
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trust me may not sound like there's a
lot going on right now but you've saved
yourself a lot of problems further down
the mixing chain okay by taking out
unwanted frequencies that may build up
later into causing problems so now it's
time for us to use Reverb And Delay okay
so when is the rear band delay we're
going to create sense okay I'm saying
this is really easy to do all right
depending on yourself it may be
different to your software but NFL is
pretty easy and straightforward all you
have to do is just come to your audio
track that's your vocal your lead
workout track okay then just simply send
it so if you want to send it maybe to an
empty insert 4 okay just click the
button okay then you can rename it right
click rename
to give you a little bit more control
than applying the Reverb directly on
your lead vocal okay so I'm going to
come here using FL Studio stock Reverb
plugin and now please don't just start
going crazy by adjusting the knobs
that's an easy way for it to use by
using a free Reverb calculator you can
get online you can simply just search on
Google
um Reverb calculator
and typically the first website to see
is a free web calculator okay then you
click that and then you simply insert
your project Tempo which is 102 in our
case and I recommend most times you
stick to the large room and presets okay
for most Parts all right so I'm going to
use for the pre-delay 36.7 so if I press
make it to the nearest um 10 to the
nearest number which is 37 and then this
is um
2316.18 milliseconds so most Decay times
for some plugins is in seconds so
dividing this by 1000 is about 2.3
seconds okay so 37 milliseconds and 2.3
seconds so simply come right here this
is our pre-delay and we'll just adjust
this if you look at the top left corner
of FL Studio you see the number
adjusting so making this 37
so now if you can get the exact number
you can pick the nearest number you can
get your hands to okay and then we can
then adjust the Decay to
to I think was 2.3 so now we're going to
increase the size once the reverbs are
spread out
okay further okay and then we're also
going to reduce the dryer take out the
dryer completely then increase the
weight a little bit maybe it's like 60
percent just a little bit all right and
then take out the base we don't want
bass we want to Bright Reverb so now
when we play this High sounds
in it yeah
well it sounds too much how do you fix
this pretty easy just come right here
and adjust the amount you want if you
want a lot to increase it if you want
Little you reduce it so I'm going to
reduce this accordingly so it sounds
good to us
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so if I turn on the reverbs
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so next is the delay so we're going to
also come right here don't understand
again all right and then we're going to
rename this to delay so when we do this
we're going to add a delay plugin
this is the stock delay plugin FL Studio
all right so most times I recommend you
stick to when you come to the time
adjust it to four okay if you look at
the top left corner of your screen you
see it's at 4.0 okay but if your Tempo
is like let's say 130 BPM and higher
that's your tempo right here maybe you
can consider eight or two you can try
the other options out or try to avoid um
thirds and sixth for the most times
because the bounce will sound weird
unless if it's a creative decision
you're trying to make all right but if
you're trying to just get a good mix
typically two four and eight are good
options to stick to all right so I'm
going to stick to four in this case and
then I'm going this is where if you want
a lot of Bounce in the river for example
if I
um leave this
you can hear a lot of bounds where if I
reduce it
is a lot less right so this is if you
want a lot less Bounce from the delay
this is what you use and if you want the
loudness of the um delay to be quiet you
can reduce it from the input volume
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you can see it's a lot more quiet now
and if I increase it probably foreign
but there's an issue it keeps running
into the lead vocals okay so we're going
to use a side chain
which is easy trust me it's easy to do
so we're going to just use the fruity
limits are still a stock plug in FL
Studio come to comp come to side chain
you right click it and then you come to
this right and just a few steps left
just reduce this to the lowest you can
adjust just a little bit just a little
bit okay and then only place it sounds
like this yeah
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oh
so let me show you so you can really
hear what's going on
telephone tricks so baby I mean it
was if I turn off this foreign
okay this is running to each other boy
is turned on falling for your signs and
cheeks so baby I mean it yeah
this is a lot more controlled okay so if
I just turn everything back on
cheeks so baby I mean it yeah
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so you can see now it's sounding good
all across all right so now I'm going to
show you how to Just Master Your Song
okay so when we export it as wave we're
going to just name the track um call it
this
so you want to export your track as wave
okay please exports your mixes as wave
all right wave 32-bit float all right
make sure the master effect inside
effects and this is also turned on all
right animation is in Stereo a measure
is in full song all right then click
Start so we drag it back into the
project all right we can turn this ones
off now we can Master our track
so simply link it to the mixer an empty
insert okay and then you can rename it
so you can easily know dizzy
um
mastering
session okay
then you can
first of all have your lufs meter so you
can know the current loudness level
because the thing will match things that
simple thing is all about making it
louder but that's always the case Okay
so listening to see who wants to be
within about minus eight to minus 10 or
ufs all right
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all right so it's around minus 11 at the
moment all right so just simply bring
this down bring the lfs method to the
bottom of your slot by using your mouse
wheel to drag it down all right or when
you click the drop down you can simply
um I think you're able to move it down
yeah you can move it down like that if
you have a
um Mouse wheel so now use a fruity limb
with fruity limiter to make it a bit
louder okay increase the ceiling a
little bit then increase the gain
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now if you can hear there's a little bit
of distortion going on
foreign
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and then come right here the presets
right click it
and then we'll come to 20 heads and 18
heads cuts and then we'll sweep across
about 20 25 30 35 heads okay just take
out some and sometimes you can even go
as high as 40 heads okay
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right so now what we should do is
increase the ceiling some more
then reduce the game
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so baby I mean it yeah
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so it's when you listen across you can
surround minus eight to about minus ten
earlier first at the moment which is
fine okay well if you notice you know
clipping or distortion on your track you
simply need to take out maybe more bass
or you simply reduce the gain on the
limiter okay so now this is by no means
a professional Master this is just a
quick way to mix and Master Your Song
your covers your demo tracks and get it
out there okay you know you're making
content on YouTube and tick tock on IG
you want to high quality Productions
without always needing to pay a producer
and a mixing engineer this will surely
help you in getting good results so we
can now export our Master also because I
assume you're going to use this as
either for streaming or to edit with
your videos so please also export as
wave okay avoid MP3 when you're trying
to put it on streaming platforms or
exporting to edit your videos okay so
also going to export this as wave make
sure it's still in wave then we simply
click Mass um start and it exports
voila here we have it it fully mixed and
master track easy to do so if you find
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so other people can find it and learn
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