vocal recording..

[mixup]

Maybe someone can help me..

I make hiphop music for a while, and write my own
Lyrics for over 5 years now.
I only use cool edit to record my voice.
It sounds all right, but I just want to know the effects I
Have to use?
I don’t want “to much” if you know what I mean..
Just that it sounds professional..
A little reverb, a little voice-over etc..
What are the good effects to use???
Other tips are welcome to!!

Thanx..

 

[manning1]

you can search under my name. lots of tips posted in past year.
some ideas. try doing the vocals twice. on the second vocal track
insert a few millisecs of silence at the beginning (ie: slide the track a tad right). but not too much ! you have to experiment. then add a tiny bit of effect to the second track and mix to taste with the volume sliders in cool.
or you could try panning tricks with effected vocal tracks.
also try this. do first vocal track normally then second one (take)
more in a breathy fashion. (almost a whisper). sometimes works well depending on project.
also try this - i did this with a group recently. have a drum track going then
make vocal noises into the mike in time with the beat. find the best bar
whose beats match the drum track beats. then copy it, and paste X times.
so you end up with the drum track happening with this seperate vocal beat in time to it. its a bit of cut and paste work but can sound quite differentif done right. other old tricks used by studios are to use natural recording spaces that sound good. read up on this in google search.
send a voc track out of the pc to a hallway or pretty reverberant room with a speaker in and with a mic thats micing the speaker and record as an effects track (note...watch out for feedback if you are not set up properly for this technique). lots of work to get it right but this is how some vocal effects were done years back in conjunction with a tight digital delay.
other things you can do in cool is experiment carefully with tight (not long)
delays in the 55 millisecond to 90 millisecond range. experimenting with amounts of dry in ratio to effect.
just some ideas to get you experimenting . hope this helps.
peace.
ps ...note the faster the bpm of the song the smaller the millisecs of the delay to use.