Bobbsy
Boring Old Git
Well, my take on vocals...
A decent mic is important but you don't need to go silly with an ultra expensive "boutique" audiophile one.
Also important is an audio interface but your Steinberg should suffice.
Now, the two other VERY important things: your voice/performance and the acoustics of your room. There's a whole sub forum here about acoustic treatment of rooms and, frankly that can make a bigger difference than the mic choice. However, to be radical, my view is that if you can't make a room sound GOOD, then just use lots of padding (movers blankets and the like) to make the room dead (i.e. not echoey) and add reverb etc. in mixing.
Effects? None at the time of tracking. However, during the mix pretty well every vocal--even the best singers in the best studios--have effects added. Typically this would be some tweaking of EQ, some compression to even out the dynamic range and usually a bit of reverb to add some space. Exactly what and how much of everything will depend on your recording.
A decent mic is important but you don't need to go silly with an ultra expensive "boutique" audiophile one.
Also important is an audio interface but your Steinberg should suffice.
Now, the two other VERY important things: your voice/performance and the acoustics of your room. There's a whole sub forum here about acoustic treatment of rooms and, frankly that can make a bigger difference than the mic choice. However, to be radical, my view is that if you can't make a room sound GOOD, then just use lots of padding (movers blankets and the like) to make the room dead (i.e. not echoey) and add reverb etc. in mixing.
Effects? None at the time of tracking. However, during the mix pretty well every vocal--even the best singers in the best studios--have effects added. Typically this would be some tweaking of EQ, some compression to even out the dynamic range and usually a bit of reverb to add some space. Exactly what and how much of everything will depend on your recording.