vocals

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By separating out the vocals from the other instruments, you allow the speakers to only move when the vocalist is singing.

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(music) The words of a song together with other sounds sung by a vocalist.

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noun

(music) The words of a song together with other sounds sung by a vocalist.

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noun

(music) The words of a song together with other sounds sung by a vocalist.

Example sentences

By separating out the vocals from the other instruments, you allow the speakers to only move when the vocalist is singing.

The Mantle is really a beautiful album, though it has some BM vocals.

So if you have a 3 minute song that uses lots of samples, but also has 3 minutes of vocals, then the vocals are your bottleneck.

Since hardly anyone in the audience is an equal distance from both speakers, they'll hear a messy comb-filtered version of the main vocals, rather than them cleanly.

You hardly ever pan main vocals anyway, so you're normally using your stereo pair to produce a mono sound.

You'll still always need a good sound guy, and you'll still need somehow to control the (vocals:instruments) ratio in the audience.

Blotting everything out by listening to music helps a lot, particularly music free of vocals.

If you can't do that at least split the vocals to a separate system.

I should note that even organs and vocals can create transients that are often associated with beats.

In addition to that, anything you record with a microphone can't be compressed in this way, such as vocals, or any acoustic instruments.

A vocals segment of athiest thought leaders are also at war aIslam.

Because the singer was in the centre of the mix, his vocals were in opposite phases in the two channels, and were therefore cancelling out.

Quote examples

Vocaloid music is music where the "performer" is a software using a prerecorded soundbank to render the vocals into the final piece.

My apologies - "vocals" was used in reference to the verbal percussion going on - the "hey"s littered throughout as part of the background melody.

For the really curious, the first album I really remember getting into as a kid was Paul Van Dyk's Seven Ways album, which is a pretty minimal trance album (compared to today's "edm") with very few vocals.

It would be so cool to search for music based on attributes, as in "give me a song in minor, with an electric guitar lead, with a virtuosic guitar solo, with female vocals, and with electronic instruments".