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alright, well ive seemed to fix most of my initial recording problems...however i still have a major problem in the mixing stage.

when i record i usually already have a track with the music...and im just recording my vocals to my computer to mix with the music track. my problem is ..even when i get the volumes about the same, my vocals still stick out and dont blend in with the track. it sounds like you can just picture me sitting next to my computer recording my vocals. how would one go about blending vocals in with the rest of the music track?
 
little reverb..maybe delay..maybe both..or maybe play with the eq!
ya just have to mess with it until it sits just right!
 
alright thanks ..thats what i was thinking but dont really understand how to use any of those effects well. i was seeing if there were like some beginers basic steps or so
 
i'm no expert ...but if you put a little reverb in the master bus it might make the track feel as if it was all recorded in the same room? but like i said i'm no expert and i still haven't figured out how to get the volume leves just right yet either :)
 
would actually recording the vocals and the rest of the music and band at the same time fix my problem? it would be less convenient of course but deffinitely possible for me especially if this would fix my problem.
 
Are you talking about having the music already mixed down to a stereo track? This makes it a bit harder to get the vocals to sit in properly, as a lot of the frequency space can already be taken, and when you put the vocals in, they are actually on top of the whole mix.....fighting for space. If you can, mix everything down at once....meaning sometimes many tracks. If you have 2 guitars, a bass and drums, you will need these in seperate tracks each. It does make it a bit easier to get stuff to gel, if they have seperate tracks for space, and you can eq them seperately, and add effects to individual tracks, not the whole mix.

That being said, it doesn't mean you can't put vocs on top of a 2 track, stereo file, just means you might have a buildup of certain frequencies, and when you drop the volume, to get the vocals to sit properly, you also might be cutting other sounds, that make the vocals stand out a lot. Also, if that is your only choice, the reverb and such might help them sit better. I have done this on a few collabs, and it worked at least ok.
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alright, yeh thats what i've been doing....my band has been recording the instrument part, mixing down to mp3...then ive been taking it home and adding vocals to it. we're just experimenting right now with home recording as we want to eventually get into a studio for our demo or cd. so if we record all at the same time and mix my vocals with it originally it will gel better ? thanks alot
 
riznich said:
alright, yeh thats what i've been doing....my band has been recording the instrument part, mixing down to mp3...then ive been taking it home and adding vocals to it. we're just experimenting right now with home recording as we want to eventually get into a studio for our demo or cd. so if we record all at the same time and mix my vocals with it originally it will gel better ? thanks alot
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The way it seems to work best, for me anyway, is to record each instrument to it's own track, then try adn mix them together and get the best sound I can. I don't have real drums to work with, so mine are generally already mixed down to stereo. Then a few guitar tracks...sometimes 4, a bass, then the vocals tracks. Usually gives me 5 or 6 mono tracks, plus a stereo drum track. Then you can try and mix down from there. If you record your own drums, you might leave them in as many tracks as necessary to retain as much sound quality as possible. It's easier to get rid of unwanted, or unnedded sounds, than it is to try and get it back later....
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