Travis Ad lips are awesome and i think everybody likes them, they usually have more Reverb on them and they are in high pitches, I think Travis can´t get that high, so use LittleAlterBoy to pitch it up or down. Adjust the time of the of the delay between 10-60 depending on what you want. Mike Dean says he his a H Delay fan, for alternative you can use Valhalla Freq Echo or EchoBoy (different result). You can use presets of Large Halls and Large Plates, compress it a litlle bit and EQ it cutting down some highs and a little bit of mediums frequencies, just not much.ġ/4 and 1/8 are the most used type of Delays by Travis and you need sidechain it and choose the amount you want. Mike Dean said on Twitter and at Pensado´s Place that is favorite reverb is Slate Digital Verbsuite Classics, so you need to use it, of course you can use Vahalla and RVerb. Travis uses a lot of distortion in his vocals, like in Stargazing and Can´t Say, to do this you need to sidechain a saturation VST like Fab Filter Saturn, Decapitator or FG - 76/73 and choose the amount is right and you want. Plugins you can use: Q8 (Waves) REQ6 (Waves) SSL Channel (Waves) FG - A FG - N Later added features like Flex Tune made the changed vocal and instruments extra-natural and supposed perfect.

After that, boost some frequencies you like but not to much just slight boosts. Auto-Tune 8.1 is an excellent tool to use on instruments and vocals that can save a recording if something has gone wrong or if the performance needs to be enhanced later. The first plugin on your vocal chain must be a Subctrative EQ, do a Low Cut around (130 - 200 Hz), cut the boxiness and mudiness and if its needed add some air and clarity around (10 - 16 Khz).

Plugins you can use: RCompressor (Waves) FG - 116 CLA - 76 (Waves) VBC

Travis voice is not heavly compressed but is a quite compressed, add 2 compressors while mixing the vocal, one on the beginning and the other after you mess with frequencies. Stock plugins will always work but if you want a must accurate sound you need to use this. Mike Dean is the main producer and mixing engineer of Travis, he says that loves Slate Digital and SoundToys but Waves is pretty good and the most used (i think).

Īlso you need to set the right key and scale, you can use Mixed in Key (buy) or ( free, but no so accurate). Set the retune speed between 20 - 5, the humanize 30-40 or 80-100, depending on the situation, The Flex - Tune between 0 - 25 and dont touch the Natural Vibrato. I could see in Look Mom I Can Fly that he uses Antares 8.1, you can also use others but antares is the industrys standart and in my opinion the most complete and for this settings you will need the Flex - Tune, only available in 8.1 and AT artist and Pro. You might think he is not a good singer but he actually is, he uses autotune for effect purposes and not only for pitch correection. Of course you will never sound like Travis if you are not Travis. I have been going through this a lot, i digged the internet trying to find autotune settings for various artists and never find one right and specific.

Use autotune 8.1