Need help fast!!!!

[deville2010]

Basically i'm just recording a lot of tracks in my 6x3 size closet with acoustic foam (that i'm working on)....but i want to be able to shop my demos and rough drafts without the overall "pumping" sound i get wen i mix myself.I kno it best to pay for mixing and mastering but i dont have the money for that type of process right now....

First off i'm putting a effects chain on the vocals which consists of:

these fl studio effects:

...Parametric EQ with 12105Hz @ 31%, 365Hz @ 20%, and 52 @ 76%??????watever that is......

a Soft type compressor with 0 threshold, 3:0:1 ratio, 9.0 gain, 18.1 attack, 180 release...again??? i sorta understand compression but not really!

a high pass filter with a 5.8 gain, 79 freq.,

a desser effect

and maybe a little reeverb........I don't kno i just try to make it sound good thru my headphones, and stereo speakers

I use a AKG Perception 220 with a M - Audio Box..

Do i really need a vacuum tube box or some other type of compression tools to make the vocals compressed from the get go or what???? What Ratios should I use... does it matter about compressing the vocals from the start???

Am I doing way too much or not enough I need help because Columbia College in Chicago is Expensive!!!!!Lmao

 

[Seidy]

can we have audio examples of what you get?

 

[RAMI]

Basically i'm just recording a lot of tracks in my 6x3 size closet with acoustic foam

If you look up "Worst possible recording environments", you'll see a picture of what you just described.

Don't look it up, I'm made it up, but a closet and foam are a horrible recording environment. Forget about the effects, your problem is at the source.

 

[dintymoore]

Basically i'm just recording a lot of tracks in my 6x3 size closet

yikes!

First off i'm putting a effects chain on the vocals which consists of:

these fl studio effects:

...Parametric EQ with 12105Hz @ 31%, 365Hz @ 20%, and 52 @ 76%??????watever that is......

a Soft type compressor with 0 threshold, 3:0:1 ratio, 9.0 gain, 18.1 attack, 180 release...again??? i sorta understand compression but not really!

a high pass filter with a 5.8 gain, 79 freq.,

a desser effect

and maybe a little reeverb........I don't kno i just try to make it sound good thru my headphones, and stereo speakers

I use a AKG Perception 220 with a M - Audio Box..

No one can tell if those settings are good without hearing it. When you record anything, you can change things a lot by how you sing or play and where the mic is. Play with that when you record and try to get the sound the way you want it in the end. The best tracks I've done are often when I record something "correctly" and don't need eq at all. Eq should be to make it "better", not fix something that's totally wrong in the first place!

Do i really need a vacuum tube box or some other type of compression tools to make the vocals compressed from the get go or what???? What Ratios should I use... does it matter about compressing the vocals from the start???..

No you don't need a vaccuum tube box or any compression when you record. You can, but lots of great recordings have been done without them.

When you eq, take away, rarely add. For compressing the vocals, try a 2:1 ratio for starters with the quickest attack and release times you have, and slowly bring the threshold down until it sounds right to you.

 

[deville2010]

well i opened the closet and faced the mic outward so the foam and stuff is behind you and the open space is what your facing the switches on the mic are both to the left on the straight line and on 0 not the line with a bend and not on -20db is this a problem too???

 

[deville2010]

This first sample is a very bad mixn wen i tried myself
http://limelinx.com/files/2d0b3a7717fcd898190c0a649eb890d8


this one is better maybe ?????? i really hear no difference
http://limelinx.com/files/33331fd9d0868c4f791db9838a33eeea

 

[clivus]

I recommend tracking vocals with a little compression (1:1.3) and deessing and adding the other effects later at mixdown. printing your effects while tracking limits your options when you mix. my 2 cents worth.

DJ