I don't mean I want to make a muddy vocal track better, but in the future, what is the best thing to (the best word I can think of is 'sharpen') my vocal tracks.
Signal chain is not something I'm proud of by any means:
JTS NX-9 (Cheap) SDC -> Yamaha MG 16/4 -> Laptop Line-In (Sigma-Tel if that makes any difference above/below average line-in quality...)
What I would like to know, is apart from everyone who sings improving their vocals, what sort of improvements can I expect from:
Upgrading my mic (probably to an NT-1a)
Getting a FireWire or USB soundcard (about FirePod quality)
Then on top of that, what else can I do? Common plug-in improvements to vocals would be compression and EQ. I use EQ when necessary, but avoid it if I can. Compression I barely use, but fiddle with occasionally, and do not really know what to do with it. It's NOT going to fix my problem is it? If anything, would worsen it?
Signal chain is not something I'm proud of by any means:
JTS NX-9 (Cheap) SDC -> Yamaha MG 16/4 -> Laptop Line-In (Sigma-Tel if that makes any difference above/below average line-in quality...)
What I would like to know, is apart from everyone who sings improving their vocals, what sort of improvements can I expect from:
Upgrading my mic (probably to an NT-1a)
Getting a FireWire or USB soundcard (about FirePod quality)
Then on top of that, what else can I do? Common plug-in improvements to vocals would be compression and EQ. I use EQ when necessary, but avoid it if I can. Compression I barely use, but fiddle with occasionally, and do not really know what to do with it. It's NOT going to fix my problem is it? If anything, would worsen it?