YanKleber
Retired
Chili, I am in a similar situation. Not as many time as you but... one and a half year writing and recording 10 tunes. Beside that there was my total lack of experience with microphone (partially because I am not a singer and it was my first attempt and partially because I don't have any knowledge about how to use it - position, distance, pre-amp setup, etc) so everything was very empiric: I just put the microphone in front of me and after a two or three tests when the voice seemed to be 'good' I just recorded the whole track a few times and that was it. After that I just started working on what I had graphically auto-tuning and applying a bunch of plugins until the crap sound minimally decent. Seems scary, I know... but it worked for my expectations. Finally I had the 'candy store syndrome' that was when I found myself in front of unlimited plugins, digital keyboards, virtual instruments, stomp boxes, amps, cabinets and drum sets! LoL!
Man, my first CD is really a mess but believe it or not I am very happy and proud about it!
Anyway, at the very end I decided to save $50 and 'mastered' (LoL!) it myself. Basically I only leveled the volume of the tracks to make they sound similar just playing with the gain knob of a compressor/limiter preset AND applied minimal EQ. Aside a small EQ problem in one of the tunes and a couple of mixing mistakes it turned out better than I supposed. I think that in a few days after the fixes it will be good to go (burn the CDs).
Man, my first CD is really a mess but believe it or not I am very happy and proud about it!
Anyway, at the very end I decided to save $50 and 'mastered' (LoL!) it myself. Basically I only leveled the volume of the tracks to make they sound similar just playing with the gain knob of a compressor/limiter preset AND applied minimal EQ. Aside a small EQ problem in one of the tunes and a couple of mixing mistakes it turned out better than I supposed. I think that in a few days after the fixes it will be good to go (burn the CDs).