
Dusty Ol' Bones
Full of green dust
Hello. My apologies if I use the wrong vocabulary. I've been recording singer/songwriter stuff with vocals, acoustic guitar, and occasional acoustic and electric overdubs. I read somewhere about how the inputs should be set to a certain dB level for recording. I normally record acoustic guitar (mostly fingerpicking) where the loudest peaks land somewhere between -9 to -6 dB. I aim for a similar target window with vocals, so as to leave headroom for later things. However, the finished product typically has the instruments coming in quiet and the vocals coming in loud. I outsource my mixing and the person I hired told me that whenever he tries to raise the instrument tracks, ambient and computer noise that was picked up by the mics becomes more prominent.
I posted a thread elsewhere about making my computer more quiet. What can I do to get the vocal tracks and instrument tracks to meet in a place closer to equilibrium?
Thank you.
I posted a thread elsewhere about making my computer more quiet. What can I do to get the vocal tracks and instrument tracks to meet in a place closer to equilibrium?
Thank you.