Help with vocal recording

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Hi,

We're fairly new to homerecording, especially everything related to mixing and mastering. My wife and i recorded some vocals yesterday and wanted to know if we're more or less on the right track with this.

Channel Inserts are :
- Gate to remove some background noise
- An EQ to remove the low frequencies (80Hz)
- Compressor
- De-Esser
- Another EQ to boost some of the freq
- Delay
- Reverb

Here's the link (Music by Adele - Someone Like You) :

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Thanks for any suggestions!
 
Depends on the style of music your going for... in any typical vocal recording i do, from soft acoustic songs to screaming songs there will be Eq to cut, Eq to boost, Compression, some kind of reverb to simulate room, and delay is is there 90% of the time unless im going for a dry sound (obviously)

But you gotta give some more detail.. what kind of music? both sung at the same time? are there drums, arent there drums?

Mixing to sound good by itself or with just a guitar is going to be a VERY different Plug-in cocktail than if your backed by a full band.

harmonizing eachother? put the melody centered, a guitar panned slightly left, and have the harmony sit in the hole you created to the right.

see what im gettin at?
 
wait a minute.. didnt see the bottom half where the song was... my bad, lemme listen
 
i'd have her back off the mic a bit, it sounds like you might be getting some low end proximity effect, or maybe you can fix that with some EQ... it sounds like there is some low end muddiness that is hiding some clarity and "sparkle" that im really looking for in this song.

not a knock against her voice at all, just an idea
 
thanks for the replies.. we'll try again taking some more distance between her and the mic as she might have been to close to the mic. Also, we're using a dynamic mic (for now) so that might also be one of the reasons..

Much appreciated
 
I agree with Bisson820's obviously acutely soud-savvy ear when he or she says that the track could use some polish on the low end.

I would definitely try moving the mic up or down, or having your wife back off of it a bit before thinking about EQ.

Are you using a pop-shield?

As far as whether a dynamic mic'll do the trick, you can definitely get away with one, as your song indicates. A capacitor mic however will make preamp noise less of an issue and allow for a more open sounding top end. This kind of mic is also pretty affordable now if you don't get something the pros use. You'll probably get the best bang for your buck from a large-diaphragm cortioid model.

Enjoyed the song.
 
thanks for all comments! We're not using a pop filter. I could be wrong but i always thought that this isn't really required with a dynamic mic (Except maybe because it helps the singer keeping proper distance from mic).

Polished the low end a bit with the EQ and i think this sounds much much better..
I can't edit my original post so i'll just attach it here.

Let me know what you guys think about it

Thanks!
 

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It does sound a lot better! it'll take a little bit, but the more you record and understand how to treat each voice and instrument, you'll be able to hear what oyu need to do pretty quickly.
 
Thanks for the feedback! I've been reading alot of tutorials, forum topics, books (just finished 'Mixing Audio' by Izhaki) and so on, but its indeed a path with ups and downs... Understanding the theory behind all those tools like compressors, limiters, gates and not just turn knobs and change tresholds without knowing what influence this will have...

Anyway,
thanks again!
 
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