Need Help Recording Vocals

[IPDOT]

Wattup Everybody,
I currently started to build my home studio. I have an Mbox2 with the pro tools setup and a MXL990. Im trying to get The quality up. Does any body have any suggestions as to how should I record vocals and what plugins should I use as well.Thanks for the help in advance. Your Help is much appreciated.

Peace,
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[mentalattica]

Without hearing any examples it'd be hard to judge. Do you have any clips you can post?

With any vocals you do what the song is asking for. I compress , EQ (if needed), Compress again (if needed), DeEss (if needed) and add a small amount of reverb and delay. But it's all subjective.

If you just want better overall quality, it starts with your source. Mic placement and technique is a MUST to achieve the best possible quality you can. Also, treating your room. Your room can't be too "dead" and also shouldn't have a lot of reflections if any (unless ofcourse you want it to). And next would be your gear. Mic, Preamp, Interface etc... The M-box shouldn't give you any problems. Sooner or later I suspect you'll want to upgrade your mic, but I could be wrong.

Plugins:
I like the Waves RenComp (compressor), it's my favorite software compressor but the bundles are pretty expensive for us home recorders.

I prefer the Waves Q10 (or any of the q's) as my EQ.

A lot of people like the blockfish compressor (i think that's the name). It's free too I think. Really, there's so many different plugins there's no "right" way to go, just experiment and see what you like. Waves used to have a free trial of their plugs on their website.

 

[jb4play]

Record them in as clean/unprocessed as possible. I usually track in with a slight bit of compression (FMR Audio RNC) and do the rest in the box. Get a nice gain level with your preamp and keep it from clipping. There is no "set" way to get quality, it's all trial and error, but keeping things simple and not trying to over engineer usually renders the best results. Bad in equals bad out, if it doesn't sound right coming in, try a different mic, location, space from the mic, etc... until you get it sounding how you want. In the box I use Waves plugs mostly, I'm still a diehard user of the Sonic Timeworks 4080L Reverb plug as well . Pro Tools has some ok plugs that come stock with it. Also, there is a sticky here that links to a good source for engineers, that sticky taught me ALOT! Good luck!