On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 10:03 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Hi, I read a lot of threads where people are looking for some tricks and hints about recording various things, and in my experience, if you hang a good mic, in a good spot, and go through good gear, you're gonna get a decent sound. There are no tricks involved. Unfortunately this is experiential, too, so you just need to do it a lot. :-) Rich... > I do (and did over the years) quite some recording with > vocals. I know a > few tricks when it comes to processing lead vocals, but > sometimes I feel > I'm doing the same thing over and over. So obviously I'm > looking for > other directions and therefore I'll save my own approaches for > later in > this thread... > > My question is: how do *you guys* work with processing on lead > vocals, > mostly in pop/rock setting? We all learn the most the more > precise this > discussion gets, so if you'd share sound examples and > screenshots of DSP > chains that'd be great. > > Note: I'm not looking for that golden setting or trying to > squeeze your > golden eggs out of you. I'm just trying to learn, and > hopefully this can > be a fruitful experience for all of us :-) > > -- > Atte > > I usually do process vocals depending on the mic and the mixing > console preamps. > > Assuming a Mackie mixing desk: > If I can use (ie. borrow from friends) a condenser one then a little > compression (SC) + multiband eq (to clarify, usually <=3db around > 12Kh) and a nylon stocking to remove unwanted "b" "p" is enough. > > When I use the sm58, in addition to the above I prefer to pass the > track into Jamin (I am a fan of this app ;-) ) and work with > compression bandwidths. > > > Sometimes I double vocal track, shift the duplicated one by 1-2ms and > boost freq 2Kh below the main one (ie. if I boost the first at ~10Kh, > the second will be at ~8Kh). > > -r > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
