Ryan Worsley: How to Create Polished, Controlled Vocals

For more than 20 years, Ryan Worsley has been studiously, methodically, prodigiously, and obsessively honing his craft. Most recently, he was nominated by the Juno Awards for Recording Engineer of the Year (2020), but he was first recognized by the Western Canadian Music Awards in 2015 with his first award for Engineer of the Year. He has since won Producer of the Year twice (2019, 2022).

Ryan’s collaboration with Juno Award-winners Dear Rouge (Universal Music Canada) has been particularly fruitful. He produced, wrote, and mixed their LPs Black To Gold (2015), PHASES (2018), and Spirit (2022), resulting in five Top 10 singles on the Canadian Alternative Chart—including a #1 with “Fake Fame” in 2022.

He also produced, co-wrote, and mixed Monowhales’ Daytona Bleach, which earned four Top 10 singles on Canadian rock radio and contributed to the band’s Juno Award for Breakthrough Group of the Year (2022).

Ryan has worked with a wide range of artists, including Willow, Said The Whale (Arts & Crafts), Hotel Mira (Light Organ), Mathew V (604 Records), The Royal Foundry, and Shaun Frank.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

• Is knowing music theory problematic?
• Why it’s a good thing to work with poor musicians
• How to keep objective when working multiple roles on a project
• Making songs grow and building excitement
• Understanding how radio affects your mixes
• Automating your mix for impact
• Blending samples with real instrumentation
• Achieving natural dynamics in a song
• How to pick samples efficiently
• Making your vocals feel controlled and polished
• Knowing when to double vocals
• How to process layered vocals
• Using parallel processing on vocals
• Compressing vocals

To learn more about Ryan Worsley, visit https://www.echoplantsound.com/ryan

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