Focusrite Preamp

[anoopbal]

Anoop, I totally agree with Jonesy above that when you are recording with a microphone, your speakers/monitors should be turned off completely and you should monitor your vocal/microphone recording with Headphones Only!! (See Link Below)

For many reasons, doing it this way is Standard Practice in the industry for most .

By the way, your voice sounds very very good! Nice work!

However, I believe the Shure Beta 58 Dynamic Microphone (or something else) has cut out much of the mid-high and high-end "shimmer" of your voice leaving your vocal sounding boxy and a little muffled and the instrumental tracks seem to have some excessive high-end.

What software are you using and how did you record your instrumental tracks?

Interestingly, last month I did a 7-Song Recording Session with a Man from India currently living here in the U.S. who said that he was a Recording Professional in India years back.

The Songs we recorded were in the Bollywood/Karaoke Style and he had pre-recorded instrumental backing tracks for each song on CD.

I first recorded his instrumental backing tracks into Cubase 6.5 and we used an sE Electronics Z3300A 3-pattern condenser mic for his vocals: http://www.seelectronics.com/z3300a-mic and it worked very well.

I did spend a lot of hours in the mix process to match his voice to the timbre and sound quality of his pre-recorded instrumental tracks using some eq, compression, a little bit of pitch correction and reverb and he was very happy with the outcome.

If you would upgrade your M-Audio to, for example, the Focusrite Scarlett, you would be taking care of a number issues that you have currently.

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Bob G

I have made a thread here about it. When I use headphones, I just cannot sing right. I sound flat. I can't hear how loud I am. I guess I need to figure it out.

Thanks!! You are right about the boxiness. I think the low end problem could also be due to the place I live in. I live in a studio which has a very low ceiling and very boxy type. So there is a lot of reflections.

I am using Ableton and I use a karaoke track.

Nice. I feel in bollywood music we use a lot of reverb. What was his name if that's ok to ask?

How does getting the scarlet help? Bcos it has two preamps? And what mike you reccomend?

 

[ecc83]

I have made a thread here about it. When I use headphones, I just cannot sing right. I sound flat. I can't hear how loud I am. I guess I need to figure it out.

Thanks!! You are right about the boxiness. I think the low end problem could also be due to the place I live in. I live in a studio which has a very low ceiling and very boxy type. So there is a lot of reflections.

I am using Ableton and I use a karaoke track.

Nice. I feel in bollywood music we use a lot of reverb. What was his name if that's ok to ask?

How does getting the scarlet help? Bcos it has two preamps? And what mike you reccomend?

Old trick: Just have the cans in one ear, the other open to your natural voice. NB. You must kill the spill from the redundant earpiece!

Dave.