Choosing a mic patch-BR

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What a difficulty it is choosing a mic patch that makes the vocal sound and tone fit the rest of the song. Now that I have the rest of the instruments to mesh down pat as good and in unison as I believe it's going to get with my resources, I can't get the vocal track to sound as if it's part of the song. I record metal/rock, some yelling some regular volume vocals. I have three tracks left to use for vocals. Suggestions for starting points are appreciated thanks.

I find that the problem using box studios today is that you don't see what intangible resources are available that you would normally see in real life and be curious to explore(such as pre-amps and knobs and settings to play with). Much of it remains unknown or absent to the users kownledge. The total effect is learning the process backwards.
 
Try Dry

Record it dry, then go back and just add a touch of reverb & delay. (You will need to bounce it to another V-track).

When recording dry, you can still monitor it w/ effect patch if you want, by setting the insert location to "dry."

If that fails, use the Darth Vader patch.

Good luck!
 
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Dry is my next try

Dry is my next try.(Tomorrow)
What I did today to narrow down what I like and quickly hear the good patches or the ones that fit my voice and songs is;
I started recording with PO1 singing it into my song (actually saying "P-0-1" to identify them later on in playback), keeping my song rolling I continued turning the value dial naming P02 as I was using that one, then P03 and so on. Each one a few seconds at a time to get the genereal idea of what each one sounded like in context.
Presently I'm down to a few that I like. I'm continuing this process of elimination using two tracks now so that I can move the fader up on one track and down on the other to get a face to face comparison. When I have a one that's a good fit for my sound I'll start playing with EQ's and all that. That's pretty much the best way I think. That's also how I came up with my 2 main guitar sounds on my GT-8 and my drum sound (which is through a mic patch on my BR).
I'm going to do one track dry also and compare it with those and see what happens when I insert my effects also.
Thanks for the idea.
P.S. I already used the Vader effect in my girlfriends lovesong
 
I too have been struggling with vocals. Have not found the patches to be too helpful.

Hey, Valley Arts Kid can you explain that recording dry but hearing the patch in the headphones thing. That sounds interesting. Ideally, I'd like to have just a bit of reverb in the headphones while I sing, but record dry. Is that possible?

Thanks
Neil
 
neogardguitar said:
I too have been struggling with vocals. Have not found the patches to be too helpful.

Hey, Valley Arts Kid can you explain that recording dry but hearing the patch in the headphones thing. That sounds interesting. Ideally, I'd like to have just a bit of reverb in the headphones while I sing, but record dry. Is that possible?

Thanks
Neil
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I will try to explain based on memory, without having the machine or manual in front of me. So this might not be 100% accurate. I can explain it in better detail later if you want.

To record dry but monitor w/ the effect in the phones, open the effects window and use the directional buttons to highlight "Insert." Turn the dial until it reads "(rec dry)."

To minotor w/ just a bit of reverb, you might need to edit a mic patch to your liking, then save it as a user patch, then follow the steps for recording dry.

Hope that helps.
Scott
 
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