🎙️ STREET MELODY

Univers Series — Episode 12

Preset name: Street Melody Vocal Preset

It represents the balance between UK rap delivery and melodic drill vocals, which is exactly what this episode focuses on.

STREET MELODY — VOCAL TEMPLATE + PRESET

Univers Series — Episode 12

Street Melody is a complete FL Studio vocal production bundle designed for modern UK Drill, melodic rap, and melodic drill vocals.

For Episode 12 of the Univers Series, I wanted to explore a vocal style that sits somewhere between two worlds.

Rap.

And melody.

The vocal needs enough attitude and clarity to cut through a hard-hitting drill production, while still having enough movement and emotion to support melodic phrases.

The challenge isn't simply making the vocal louder.

It's making the vocal feel like it belongs inside the production.

🎙️ STREET MELODY VOCAL PRESET

The Street Melody Vocal Preset was created around the vocal approach explored in this episode.

The goal was to create a vocal that feels:

✓ Clear

✓ Controlled

✓ Direct

✓ Melodic

✓ Natural

✓ Energetic

✓ Modern

✓ Present without sounding over-processed

UK Drill productions can be busy.

Between the drums, percussion, bass, and melodic elements, there isn't always a huge amount of space left for the vocal.

That's why balance is everything.

The vocal needs to remain understandable without becoming unnaturally bright, harsh, or heavily processed.

🎤 RAP MEETS MELODY

One of the main ideas behind Street Melody is flexibility.

Modern drill vocals aren't always pure rap.

Sometimes the artist is:

Rapping.

Singing.

Switching between both.

Changing energy from one section to another.

This workflow was built with that balance in mind.

The preset gives you a strong starting point for vocals that move between:

RHYTHM → MELODY → ATTITUDE → EMOTION

without completely changing your workflow every time the performance changes.

🎛️ UNIVERS FL STUDIO TEMPLATE

The bundle includes the Univers FL Studio Template, giving you an organized environment for vocal production.

Instead of building your routing from scratch every session, the template gives you a structured foundation.

The workflow includes:

✓ Vocal Routing

✓ Vocal Buses

✓ FX Sends

✓ Parallel Processing

✓ Reverb & Delay Routing

✓ Vocal Control

✓ Automation Setup

This allows you to focus on what actually matters:

The performance.

The balance.

The sound.

📂 FULL FL STUDIO PROJECT — FLP

You also receive the full FL Studio project used in Episode 12.

This gives you the opportunity to go beyond simply loading a preset.

Open the actual session and study how the mix was approached.

Explore:

• The vocal chain
• Vocal routing
• Lead vocal balance
• Melody and rap processing
• Effects
• Automation
• Vocal placement
• Stereo image
• How the vocal interacts with the drill production

This is where the real learning happens.

A preset can give you a starting point.

But understanding why the decisions were made helps you improve your own mixes.

🎧 CREATING CLARITY WITHOUT OVER-PROCESSING

One of the biggest goals of this mix was clarity.

But clarity doesn't mean pushing the high frequencies until the vocal becomes harsh.

And control doesn't mean compressing the life out of the performance.

The goal was to find the middle ground.

Clear enough to understand.

Controlled enough to compete.

Natural enough to feel believable.

Processed enough to feel commercial.

That's the balance behind Street Melody.

🌊 SPACE WITHOUT LOSING IMPACT

Drill vocals often need to feel relatively close and direct.

Too much reverb can quickly push the performance into the background.

For this style, space needs to support the vocal—not swallow it.

The workflow focuses on creating:

✓ Controlled ambience

✓ Focused delays

✓ Selective width

✓ Automated effects

✓ Depth without distance

The vocal should feel like it exists inside the world of the beat.

Not floating somewhere above it.

🔥 BUILT FOR MODERN DRILL & MELODIC RAP

Street Melody is a strong starting point for:

✓ UK Drill

✓ Melodic Drill

✓ UK Rap

✓ Melodic Rap

✓ Trap

✓ Drill-Pop

✓ Storytelling Rap

✓ Modern Hip-Hop

Whether you're recording aggressive verses, melodic hooks, rap-singing performances, doubles, or ad-libs, this workflow gives you an organized foundation to start from.

🧠 THE PHILOSOPHY BEHIND STREET MELODY

The biggest lesson from Episode 12 is simple:

Energy doesn't mean over-processing.

A vocal can feel exciting without being crushed by compression.

It can cut through a beat without being painfully bright.

It can feel polished without removing all of the artist's personality.

The best results often come from understanding what the performance already has—and enhancing it instead of trying to completely transform it.

That's the philosophy behind Street Melody.

📦 WHAT'S INCLUDED

🎙️ STREET MELODY VOCAL PRESET

A complete starting point for modern melodic drill and UK rap vocal production.

🎛️ UNIVERS FL STUDIO TEMPLATE

A structured FL Studio workflow with organized routing, buses, sends, and processing.

📂 FULL FL STUDIO PROJECT — FLP

The actual project used to create the mix in Episode 12.

🎯 WHO IS THIS FOR?

This bundle is ideal for:

🎤 Artists recording drill and melodic rap vocals.

🎹 Producers who want a faster vocal-production workflow.

🎚️ Engineers looking to study modern drill vocal placement.

🌌 FL Studio users who want an organized starting point instead of rebuilding every session from scratch.

⚠️ DISCLAIMER

Street Melody is an artist-inspired vocal production preset and template created as part of the Univers Series.

This product is NOT Central Cee's official vocal preset, vocal chain, template, recording chain, or endorsement.

It is not affiliated with, approved by, or endorsed by Central Cee or his team.

The sound and workflow are my personal interpretation of the vocal characteristics and production techniques commonly associated with modern UK Drill, melodic drill, and melodic rap.

The purpose of the Univers Series is not to copy artists or claim access to their official vocal settings.

It is about studying the sonic characteristics, creative decisions, and mixing philosophies behind influential sounds—and translating those ideas into practical production techniques.

We're not copying the artist.

We're studying the sound.

Then we're building our own.

🌌 UNIVERS SERIES — EPISODE 12

STREET MELODY

Vocal Preset + FL Studio Template + Full FLP

Study the sound. Understand the technique. Build your own.