keith.rogers
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In your own recording, a microphone with a larger pattern can help, so someone not using (or misusing) microphone techniques will still be captured. (Avoid hyper/super cardioids.) Use of a pop filter/screen to fix a minimum distance and simple instructions about staying on axis, then using the playback to make suggestions for another take is what I basically do to myself. (Since most of my recording is live performances that cover the entire spectrum of skills, I have to do whatever I can in post.) For my home recordings with friends, if someone is a constant problem so that the fun goes out of it, I'll just stop having them do vocal parts, honestly. (My home stuff is very much "back porch" music, i.e., just for fun and a bit of learning, so the singing is all done by non-singers, pressed into service. I don't think anyone notices if they haven't sung lately, even me )Thanks again [MENTION=196982]keith.rogers[/MENTION] . One question; teaching singers on microphone techniques is one thing but how about us, as technical persons, how do we eliminate this issue to minimize retakes? In your case, do you apply something like hardware limiters or compressions during the recording or you just record "as is" then apply necessary editing after recording? Sorry for asking. I tried to search this on youtube but got mixed answers.
I don't use anything going in, save a separate preamp which probably has somewhere around .5dB of compression (wild guess). Don't have any compressors or limiter hardware going in (don't even own one), but I can always put something in the track and have it turned on for monitoring, if it seems necessary to get the person recorded. I can't imagine, honestly, ever needing a limiter on a vocal take in a home studio.