# Finding the right lead vocal level quickly

**URL:** <https://community.mwtm.com/t/finding-the-right-lead-vocal-level-quickly/8268>\
**Category:** Masters Q&A\
**Created:** [July 17, 2024, 11:01am UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/finding-the-right-lead-vocal-level-quickly/8268 "2024-07-17T11:01:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thomas\_Greenwood](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.mwtm.com/thomas_greenwood/32/79_2.png) [@Thomas\_Greenwood](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Thomas_Greenwood)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 11:01am UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/finding-the-right-lead-vocal-level-quickly/8268/1 "2024-07-17T11:01:08Z")

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Hi Tom,

Many thanks for doing this Q&A.

Do you have any thoughts or tips about finding the right lead vocal level? I’ve been mixing professionally a long time, about 15 years, and yet I still find myself going round and round in circles setting lead vocal levels and subsequently wasting quite a lot of time. I’ll think it’s all good then 30min later find it’s 2dB loud and kind of go round in a loop turning them up and down. I get there in the end but it always seems like a bit of a struggle.

I don’t have much of an issue in dense choruses etc, it’s sparse verses, especially with a soft vocal where I find there to be such a range where it will work, and the vocal level that sounds good seems largely dependant on playback level.

Thanks!