First and foremost, always use your ears. You have to be careful here as it can be easy to overdo this and suck all of the life and realness out of the performance. To combat this, he will simply go through and mute all of the sections that he doesn’t want to come through in the track using the mute tool.

Often, Plastician will get a vocal track from a studio or record it himself and it will be full of gasps, breaths and stutters. Here are some of his best tips from the course of how he adds his signature sparkle to dry vocal takes: However, as he shows in his video course, where he talks us through how he goes about building beats for rappers, he uses plenty of free plugins to achieve his sound. As a successful producer, you’d expect his effects chain to be chock-full of the latest and most expensive plugins that he can get his hands on. He’s turned out tracks with Rap heavyweights like Skepta and JME, while still maintaining the DNA that's seen him become one of the most respected veteran producers in the game. As one of the biggest names in both UK Electronic and Hip hop production, Plastician is no stranger to working with MCs.

Fl studio mixing rap vocals