# Vocal sound in All I Need To Hear Live

**URL:** <https://community.mwtm.com/t/vocal-sound-in-all-i-need-to-hear-live/2663>\
**Category:** Jack Antonoff Producing The 1975\
**Created:** [December 23, 2023, 6:15am UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/vocal-sound-in-all-i-need-to-hear-live/2663 "2023-12-23T06:15:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bradley\_Milosevic-Hi](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.mwtm.com/bradley_milosevic-hi/32/79_2.png) [@Bradley\_Milosevic-Hi](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Bradley_Milosevic-Hi)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2023, 6:15am UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/vocal-sound-in-all-i-need-to-hear-live/2663/1 "2023-12-23T06:15:53Z")

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Oli, I really love your work on the All I Need To Hear live performance video. Can you talk about using an sm7b on it and what eq/other processing you used to get the vocals to sound so clear?

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**Author:** ![Oli\_Jacobs](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.mwtm.com/oli_jacobs/32/551_2.png) [@Oli\_Jacobs](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Oli_Jacobs)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2023, 8:30pm UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/vocal-sound-in-all-i-need-to-hear-live/2663/2 "2023-12-27T20:30:14Z")

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Hey Bradley.

Thank you for the kind words! Matty’s vocal is live in the room with the band and there’s a lot of spill from the drum kit onto his mic.

I used RX (music rebalance) to pull the drums down a few dB on the vocal mic - although we wanted to keep a room-heavy kit sound, this let me have a bit more control of the vocal. I do this quite a lot in live album mixes, it can really help.

Chain is SM7b \> 1073 and through a tubetech compressor (sorry I dont have a recall for that to hand but it was doing 3/4 dB reduction with a fairly slow attack and quick release).

There’s a bit of an EQ, then UAD LA2a and soothe2. Sends are are a UAD EMT140 and echoboy (thats doing a slap delay). Attaching screenshots for all of these!

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**Author:** ![Bradley\_Milosevic-Hi](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.mwtm.com/bradley_milosevic-hi/32/79_2.png) [@Bradley\_Milosevic-Hi](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Bradley_Milosevic-Hi)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/vocal-sound-in-all-i-need-to-hear-live/2663/3 "2023-12-27T21:42:48Z")

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Thank you so much for the really detailed response! I’ve been doing a lot of research lately on using the sm7b for these kind of live performance recordings so this is very helpful! How much compression is the La-2a doing? And is there much automation on the vocal?