GUIDE · YEAT VOCALS · ANY DAW
How to mix vocals like Yeat.
Yeat's vocals are tuned hard and fast, a little dirty, stacked with pitched copies, and sit in space that jumps from a tight room to a giant wash between sections. Here's the chain step by step with stock plugins, then the one-click way.
By Jordon Lumley, producer and maker of SCRAMBLE. · Nov 2026
The sound in four parts.
Hard, robotic tune (fast retune, no humanize)
Bright and forward, a bit of dirt
Pitched-up and pitched-down copies
Tiny room on verses, huge space on hooks
The chain, step by step.
In this order, on the vocal track. The numbers are starting points: trust your ears.
- Pitch correction. Set your song's key. Retune speed as fast as it goes (0-5 ms), humanize/flex off. You want the notes to snap.
- Low cut + EQ. High-pass at about 120-150 Hz. Cut 2-3 dB around 200-300 Hz for mud, boost 2-4 dB around 3-4 kHz for bite, a shelf above 8 kHz for air.
- Compression. Two stages: a fast one catching peaks (4:1, 3-5 dB of reduction), then a gentle one (2:1) to glue. The vocal should barely move in level.
- Grit. A saturator or distortion at 30-50% mix. Enough that it crunches on phone speakers, not so much it fizzes.
- Pitched layers. Duplicate the vocal, pitch one copy +12 and one -12 semitones, keep them low (-12 to -18 dB) under the lead. This is a big part of the sound.
- Space. Verses: a short room (0.3-0.6 s). Hooks: a long hall or plate (2-4 s) plus a slapback or 1/8 delay. Automate between them.
- Adlibs. Pitch them up or down, filter the lows and highs off, pan them, and send them wetter than the lead.
Yeat is named only to describe a vocal style. SCRAMBLE isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Yeat. The settings below are our own starting points for the sound, not anyone's actual session settings.
Or do it in one click.
Load SCRAMBLE, open the VOCALS page, pick YEAT HELIMAN (free) and hit MATCH SONG KEY. For hooks try YEAT BIG SPACE (free); for adlibs RAGE AIRY (free). The Bundle has 31 Yeat and rage chains.
Everything in the chain above, in one free plugin: Yeat vocal chain presets →
SCRAMBLE is free.
10 vocal chains, 8 FX modes for drums, 808s, hats, loops and the master bus, and a Rubik's cube with 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 positions, each a different FX chain. Mac + Windows, no card needed.
Questions
What auto-tune settings does Yeat use?
Nobody outside his team knows his exact settings. The sound you hear is a very fast retune speed with humanize off, in the song's key. Start there.
Do I need paid plugins?
No. Every step works with your DAW's stock plugins (FL Studio, Logic, Ableton, Studio One all have a pitch corrector, EQ, compressor, saturator, delay and reverb). SCRAMBLE just does the whole chain in one free plugin.
Will it sound exactly like the record?
No chain will on its own: the voice, the mic, the performance and the beat matter more than any plugin. This gets your vocal into the same lane fast.