
Here's a few things that may help use duplicates of your vocal tracks and pan them to the sides evenly. These are my suggestions, hope they help. Don't turn the volume up on the vocal with the compression too much, it shouldn't be too noticeable, but what you will notice is that you can now turn down the original vocal track a little and it will still sound clear and will fit nicely in the mix. What's important here is that you should still have the original vocal playing and slowly push up the volume on the altered vocal track with all the compression on it. Then use a ton of compression on the vocal, like 30:1 ratio, with a threshold of -20db. Send your vocals to an FX track, and assign a compressor to the FX track. Another technique is called parallel compression. This helps to get rid of frequencies that compete with the instrumental track.

Move around and listen to different frequencies, and ones that you think should be accentuated pull them up, but not any more than 3 db, you just want those frequencies you like to be at zero or "unity gain" again. Then pick a small frequency range and push it up as loud as you can, concentrate on listening to just that one little area of sound.


One is EQ, turn the EQ on and drop down ALL the frequencies about 3 db. I like to use 2 techniques to fit my vocals more naturally into a track.
