How do i get nice warm/round vocals?

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To Mindset.........

i see what you were saying now mindset......

my problem was i had my lows just fine enough to keep the warmth, but when it came to the mids and highs, i got kinda laxed with the EQ adjustments....... i'll focus mainly on my high-midrange frequencies from 4-6k at the most to fix the overall sibilance and clarity, then roll off anything above 6k as far as vocals go.... not to mention i had two of my bands Q's too close to each other and forgot to fix that, so i'll retweak that as well to take out the excess clutter.....

i still have most of the tracking saved at a freshly recorded state, cept for the reverb/echo on the hook, which i'll probably just have to take the volume down a bit and slightly compress it to a point where the reverb is almost non-existent and pan em more so they don't actually "beef" up too loud......

as far as the instruments of the track, it was already mixed and mp3'd to me, i cant really do nothing to that, but as far as my vocals, i see where the problems originated from and will work on fixin it up a bit, just thankfully none of it was during the actual recording process except for slight popping at two points(maybe more) of the track due to lack of a pop-filter...

i think i should be ok going into the mixing process this time around, we'll see!
 
As others stated you need the right singer/mic/pre amp. You also need the right vocal recording techniques (ie singing closer to mix usually warmer, and us a vocal booth, can be make shift).

Compression can really thicken up a vocal and bring out the warmth in a recording. Choosing a nice outboard vocal compressor known for adding warmth would help here.

Eck
 
Anyone mentioned getting closer to the mic, yet? Taking advantage of proximity effect. I'm not sure if that's "warm" or "round" by your definition, but its something to try.
 
Chris Shaeffer said:
Anyone mentioned getting closer to the mic, yet? Taking advantage of proximity effect. I'm not sure if that's "warm" or "round" by your definition, but its something to try.
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that definitely plays a part in it, i just noticed it myself the last time i recorded a few weeks ago, the farther i was from the mic regardless of how loud i got made my voice sound thin, the closer i got the more full my vocals were, needless to say by the end of that session my adlib track became my main vocals and vice versa..........
 
inittowinit said:
So i have be recording hip hop vocals for a while now and there pretty good but i just cant seem to get them as warm as i would like. What i do most of the time is first a peek track( real natural vocals), than a high pass track(rooling off the lows via eq) and than back ups. I pan the high pass 75 right and left to hug the main track than apply eq,verb etc effects as needed. i just cant seem to get them very round. I am mixing in pro tools and do some effects in wave labs as well. any help would be great. thanks
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I take "warm" to mean attenuated in the HF.

So, I'd start with not running a HPF and instead doing a sweep to find a place to notch out a little HF.

Then try using an LA-2A plug.
 
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