Hey, it's my very first post!
Been reading this forum for some time, and put together a basic home recording studio. Now it's time to take it up a notch.
This is purely for male vocals. Currently, all I have is an AT2020 directly into an RME UFX. (+pop filter) and into a DAW.
Room is large-ish, low ceiling (basement), but decently treated with absorption. I've also built some moveable absorber panels to make a somewhat isolated area for recording vocals.
I have read and watched tons of tutorials about EQ'ing, compressing, reverb, etc. and have spent quite some time practicing optimizing my vocal chain. This has made massive improvement to the tone from my very first raw recordings.
But I'm still not entirely happy with the tone of my vocals. With my best efforts on the vocal chain, I find it raspish, coarse. Each vibration of the vocal chords sounds like a slap. I can somewhat EQ this out, but not to my satisfaction, and I usually end up coming dangerously close to making the sound too thin.
I bet the first most important factor is to improve my own singing method - I'm an amateur. Working on the voice instrument is at the top of the to-do list.
But I thought I'd ask this forum - what else I might do. For example, which is most likely to provide improvement at this stage - a better mic and maybe a good mic preamp, or better vocal chain plugins, or just more experience wielding the ones I've got.
Hard to know my exact situation, I know - but, in general. Thanks.
Been reading this forum for some time, and put together a basic home recording studio. Now it's time to take it up a notch.
This is purely for male vocals. Currently, all I have is an AT2020 directly into an RME UFX. (+pop filter) and into a DAW.
Room is large-ish, low ceiling (basement), but decently treated with absorption. I've also built some moveable absorber panels to make a somewhat isolated area for recording vocals.
I have read and watched tons of tutorials about EQ'ing, compressing, reverb, etc. and have spent quite some time practicing optimizing my vocal chain. This has made massive improvement to the tone from my very first raw recordings.
But I'm still not entirely happy with the tone of my vocals. With my best efforts on the vocal chain, I find it raspish, coarse. Each vibration of the vocal chords sounds like a slap. I can somewhat EQ this out, but not to my satisfaction, and I usually end up coming dangerously close to making the sound too thin.
I bet the first most important factor is to improve my own singing method - I'm an amateur. Working on the voice instrument is at the top of the to-do list.
But I thought I'd ask this forum - what else I might do. For example, which is most likely to provide improvement at this stage - a better mic and maybe a good mic preamp, or better vocal chain plugins, or just more experience wielding the ones I've got.
Hard to know my exact situation, I know - but, in general. Thanks.