A Question About Recording..

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How is everyone today? blessed I hope!
My question basically is...i have a mixer that i run my mic from...and someone who I do collabs with..just run they mic to there cpu! okay my thing is..when the guys who came and hooked my set up up...they turn my mic level(knob) on the mixer...a little pass half..and told me not to mess with it, cuz they had me straight...so i didn't...and when I went to lay a vocal on a track with the other person(the guy who has his mic hooked directly into the cpu...he was like i needed to turn my mic way down cuz it was to loud...but when I had recorded a song(with the guys that had set my mic level knob a little pass half), it sounded real good...because I know..the beat doesn't suppose to be louder then your vocals..or does it suppose to be even out equally, beat and vocals? anyways...when I sent the verse back to the other person( who has his mic hooked directly to the cpu, he said my mic was to loud, and that i needed to turn it down), so when i turned it back down he was like yeah that's better...but then...since i did that..it seems like the vocals are a little to low, when we do a final mix down..and the beat kind of drowns out the vocals...but when those guys who came and hooked me up..it was sounding like it should be sounding...i am confused..so could someone tell me...where should the knob on my mixer be turned? If i have confused any one...please hit me up in a private message, so i can further explain, you all have a blessed day!
 
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I'm gonna proceed assuming that this is a legitimate question and not a joke (which seems more likely - based on the question itself and the crazy ass Engrish). Anyway, unless you are doing something seriously wrong, you shouldn't be stuck with a certain volume level based simply on your mic input level at recording. You should be able to record your various insturments, vocals, etc., at just about any volume(with each insturment being recorded to its own track), and you can then do something called "mixing" after all the sounds are recorded. This "mixing" is where you can raise or lower the relative volumes of the individual tracks to taste.

That said, generally, you want to record your sources as loud as possible (without distorting). This will minimize the amount of noise and hiss on the individual tracks.

OK, so have I just been punk'd?
 
Code Redd, you just need to learn the basics of mixing as Andyhix said. Just experiment. Read about it using the search function above. Kind of funny someone setting a preamp level for you and saying to leave it there - every situation's different and you should learn about gain staging and use every control you can. Otherwise it'd be like if I was learning to drive a car... and noticed that the driving instructor had turned the steering wheel to the left... so I keep turning the wheel to the left too but keep crashing into things.

Tim
 
Thanks for the responses...do everybody on this board..reply with smart comments? If so they need to get a life, It wasn't that serious...I just wanted to know a simple answer to a simple question I asked..because I am new at this...and I was a little confused as to what was going on... so I was trying to get a little "knowledge" from other's, whose more experienced with all of this...but seeing as though..it won't be coming from here...like one said, I'll read up on it....but anyways...everyone be blessed.
 
Perhaps you're being a little over sensitive. I don't think any of the comments you got were mean-spirited. My car comparison is, I think, a pretty accurate one and not intended as an insult.

Tim
 
I don't want to be offensive but I'm also having a hard time understanding what you really meant in your first post ...

I don't see why you are so offended by the answers anyway ...
 
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