Greg Marquiss
New member
Good Afternoon,
I am wondering if anyone knows and is willing to share secrets of recording and / or mixing lower register voices. I have a deep voice and when I get down toward the bottom end of my range, especially with sustained notes, I have a rumbling gravelly quality to those tones. In some of the old Elvis Presley Gospel albums where he was backed by the Jordanaires, there were tracks in which their bass singer had a similar gravelly rumble to his voice, and on other tracks it was completely missing. Elvis' voice, even hitting his lowest notes was always clear as a bell.
The two condenser microphones I have are the AKG C-535 EB and a MXL 990s, plus a few assorted low end dynamic microphones that were thrown with packages I purchased. To keep signal levels up I have been close to the mic and trying to stay between -12 db and -3 db. If I get too far back from the mic as the voice trails down at the end of a word or phrase, the noise gate to suppress breath sounds will cut off trailing consonants making "win" out of "wind" for example.
I have both Cakewalk's Sonar Artist and Sound Forge 10, each with a decent sized collection of effects plug-ins, plus I have about a dozen plug-ins I purchased from Waves. There is probably about any plug-in I might need already available to me. I suspect there is some technique or processor to eliminate or reduce the low register gravelly rumble from recordings. I just don't know what it may be. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.
Thank you.
I am wondering if anyone knows and is willing to share secrets of recording and / or mixing lower register voices. I have a deep voice and when I get down toward the bottom end of my range, especially with sustained notes, I have a rumbling gravelly quality to those tones. In some of the old Elvis Presley Gospel albums where he was backed by the Jordanaires, there were tracks in which their bass singer had a similar gravelly rumble to his voice, and on other tracks it was completely missing. Elvis' voice, even hitting his lowest notes was always clear as a bell.
The two condenser microphones I have are the AKG C-535 EB and a MXL 990s, plus a few assorted low end dynamic microphones that were thrown with packages I purchased. To keep signal levels up I have been close to the mic and trying to stay between -12 db and -3 db. If I get too far back from the mic as the voice trails down at the end of a word or phrase, the noise gate to suppress breath sounds will cut off trailing consonants making "win" out of "wind" for example.
I have both Cakewalk's Sonar Artist and Sound Forge 10, each with a decent sized collection of effects plug-ins, plus I have about a dozen plug-ins I purchased from Waves. There is probably about any plug-in I might need already available to me. I suspect there is some technique or processor to eliminate or reduce the low register gravelly rumble from recordings. I just don't know what it may be. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.
Thank you.