I Have A Ring In My Vocals

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Hello. Straight To Business When Recording I Have A Slight Ring In My Recordings I Am Using A Mxl V57m Mic A Behringer Ub802 Mixer Connected To A Delta 44 Sound Card My Booth Is My Closet I Gutted It Out And Put Carpet On The Walls Ceiling And Door What In The #$@% Could Be Making That Sound. Is It The Mic Straight In The Mixer The Mixer Main Outs Into The Ins Of The Delta Or My Booth If Any One Know Please Tell Me How To Test It Or Something



P.s Iam Using Nuendo 2.1 Which I Don't Think That Would Have Any Thing To Do With It Just Trying To Be As Descriptive As Possible.
 
I've run into this several times through the years. Here are known causes:
1. Make sure you have balanced/unbalanced connections into equipment designed to take it. Some equipment will take either one. Check your manuals on each piece. I have one compressor that does not like an unbalanced connection into its balanced transformered input. It rings like this.
2. Levels wrong. Are your +4/-10 options set correctly in the software and the switches in your equipment? Try, if at all possible to always run unity gain from your mic pre to the final piece. To set the mic level on your setup, bring up both the input and output faders to zero. Turn down all aux sends, set all eq's to zero and make sure nothing else is even connected to the mixer. Connect the mic and sing into it. Bring up the input pot at the top of the channel until the output level is peaking at a little less than zero. Use your sofware to see if you input levels of your sound card agrees with the output level of the mixer. If not, something is optioned wrong, wrong connection or defective. Try muting, in your software, any channels you are not using, even digital. If this fixes it, but when you connect your reverbs or other aux sends the problem comes back, you have a level or option problem with your reverbs or whatever.
3. Call support of your equipment manufacturer. If its a problem of a particular piece of equipment, they have run into this problem before and can usually give you the fix. Hope this helps.
 
YOUNG SMITTY said:
Hello. Straight To Business When Recording I Have A Slight Ring In My Recordings

It could be the mic accents a particularly unflattering frequency in your vocals. This is why the same mic doesn't work for everybody. Try to isolate the frequency with a parametric EQ. Also try a different mic.
 
turn your head phones down and step back a little from that hot microphone my man.

you MAY POSSIBLY be having feedback issues.
 
That was my first thought. :D

What are you using to monitor yourself with while tracking, my friend, and how loud do you have it cranked?
 
And Stop This Insidious Practice Of Capitalizing Every Word
 
Yeah, you keep forgetting to take your CAPS LOCK off!
 
Thanks Larry you were straight to business have a good one.
 
My head phones are down but stepping away from the hot mic is something I tried and tried and it sounded some what better. If I add what you and Larry said it will probably fix the problem THANKS!
 
Ear phones and they are down so low i can barely hear them.
 
Who Gives A $*#& About Caps Lock I Did That To Get A Fast Reponse An Attention Grabber We Only Need Serious Replies If You Wanna Chat They Got A Good One On Yahoo So In The Furture Just Answer The Question Or Keep On Stepping.


Now Was That Enough Caps For Ya If Not I Can Get You Some More?
 
Tap the mic, do you hear the ring? sometimes the body of the mic resonates, the octava ldcs are notorious for that.
 
SMITTY -
People do care about all caps. It's hard to read, especially on this forum where it turns your whole post into the title of a book. Rude !@#$@!ing replies will get you nowhere too. Keep on stepping.
 
YOUNG SMITTY said:
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I think the problem is the hollow space inside your head.

Try tapping your head while you're singing
And see if that causes the ringing.
 
crazydoc said:
I think the problem is the hollow space inside your head.

Try tapping your head while you're singing
And see if that causes the ringing.

That's f***n' hilarious! :D
 
YOUNG SMITTY said:
Who Gives A $*#& About Caps Lock I Did That To Get A Fast Reponse An Attention Grabber We Only Need Serious Replies If You Wanna Chat They Got A Good One On Yahoo So In The Furture Just Answer The Question Or Keep On Stepping.


Now Was That Enough Caps For Ya If Not I Can Get You Some More?
Awwww, who's cranky? Didn't you have your juice today? Maybe it's nap time.

Typing in all caps is the message board equivalent of SCREAMING! We have good hearing around here. No need to shout.
 
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