I'd love a little feedback please. I've been out of music for about a decade but decided I want to make killer sounding rock record with my old band and songs from way back in the day because it's the 30th anniversary of that band more or less. The genre is what we now lovingly call hair metal, but back then we just called it hard rock. I plan to have the engineering, mixing and mastering done professionally in good studios and make it sound big...like it's 1990 all over again! I had a different idea for recording vocals though and that is what I want feedback on.
I am the singer and I am considering recording all the vocals at home. That way I can record when I'm in good voice as well as try out interesting ideas for harmonies and other melodies without being on the clock at a studio. The audio fidelity needs to be good enough to be mixed on a album where everything else was recorded by pro engineers with good equipment. With all that said, I'm also not going to run out and buy a UA87 and a Manley mic pre or whatever. I would be willing to spend a reasonable amount money on the signal chain, but it is still going to fall into the category of somewhat budget. I'm thinking a decent pre like a Warm Audio or comparable and decent mic like a Warm Audio WA-87R2 or comparable. I still have a nice Rode K2 tube mic and a couple other Rode's in my closet from back when I did some home studio stuff that I can bust out also so I'll have mic options.
The recorder is actually my biggest concern. When I did have a home studio years ago I was using a digital board and multitrack recorder and that's all gone. I never learned to work in a DAW and I don't want to learn now. I want to focus on the performance and not engineering, therefore I was thinking about buying a Tascam DP-32sd as the recorder. It has plenty of tracks available for vocals after all the instruments are recorded and it will be easy to use. I don't care about mixing or editing on it. All that will be done by pros in DAWs. I just want to record vocals that sound good for them to use.
A variation on this idea is to go ahead and record all the lead vocals in the studio and then just do all the harmonies and other background stuff at home because I wouldn't think the fidelity of those are as critical as a lead vocal.
What do you think? Good idea or bad idea, or do you have another suggestion.
I am the singer and I am considering recording all the vocals at home. That way I can record when I'm in good voice as well as try out interesting ideas for harmonies and other melodies without being on the clock at a studio. The audio fidelity needs to be good enough to be mixed on a album where everything else was recorded by pro engineers with good equipment. With all that said, I'm also not going to run out and buy a UA87 and a Manley mic pre or whatever. I would be willing to spend a reasonable amount money on the signal chain, but it is still going to fall into the category of somewhat budget. I'm thinking a decent pre like a Warm Audio or comparable and decent mic like a Warm Audio WA-87R2 or comparable. I still have a nice Rode K2 tube mic and a couple other Rode's in my closet from back when I did some home studio stuff that I can bust out also so I'll have mic options.
The recorder is actually my biggest concern. When I did have a home studio years ago I was using a digital board and multitrack recorder and that's all gone. I never learned to work in a DAW and I don't want to learn now. I want to focus on the performance and not engineering, therefore I was thinking about buying a Tascam DP-32sd as the recorder. It has plenty of tracks available for vocals after all the instruments are recorded and it will be easy to use. I don't care about mixing or editing on it. All that will be done by pros in DAWs. I just want to record vocals that sound good for them to use.
A variation on this idea is to go ahead and record all the lead vocals in the studio and then just do all the harmonies and other background stuff at home because I wouldn't think the fidelity of those are as critical as a lead vocal.
What do you think? Good idea or bad idea, or do you have another suggestion.