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crunkthanamug
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Should vocals be recorded in mono or stereo? If this varies by musical style, I do RNB singing. Thanx.
johnnypraze
Hip Hop Head
Your using one Mic I assume for typical R&B so youll have a mono source...
Record in Mono.
Record in Mono.
MadAudio
Damned if I do
Vocals are recorded mono for the most part.
Halion
New member
Whatever floats your boat really. But recording in stereo with only one mic is absolutely pointless.
Wish
Never Sarcastic....Honest
Halion said:
Not to mention impossible if it's not a stereo mic.
Halion
New member
I know a classmate of mine used to have nothing but stereo tracks in cubase, even on stuff like vocals and bassguitar. So yeah, hardware-wise, it's impossible, but software isn't that smart.
CoolCat
Well-known member
i haven't started my next creation yet..
but i hooked my SM7 mic into a splitter.
one direct to the pre/2488 dry
and the other thru my Joe Meek channel strip. which is basically dry with some compression.
some thread said its an old motown trick to offer a more whtever you call it, to the vocal line.
thought the idea was interesting.
but i hooked my SM7 mic into a splitter.
one direct to the pre/2488 dry
and the other thru my Joe Meek channel strip. which is basically dry with some compression.
some thread said its an old motown trick to offer a more whtever you call it, to the vocal line.
thought the idea was interesting.
fraserhutch
Flypaper for freaks
That isn't really stereo in that it doesn't represent a stereo image. What you're doing could easily be achieved during the mix (in fact, I believe that is where it is usually done).COOLCAT said:i haven't started my next creation yet..
but i hooked my SM7 mic into a splitter.
one direct to the pre/2488 dry
and the other thru my Joe Meek channel strip. which is basically dry with some compression.
some thread said its an old motown trick to offer a more whtever you call it, to the vocal line.
thought the idea was interesting.
treymonfauntre
Magic Bag Of Sounds
i hate that the simple idea of blending in a compressed trick with a raw track is always called "an old motown trick"
CoolCat
Well-known member
i think the article i read mentioned Motown actually did it live,with splitter cables, as they only had 4 or so tracks back then..whtever maybe 1.5 tracks,
anyway they were forced to pre-plan and sqeeze it in.. as i understand it.
yeah, nowadays we can mix it at our convienience with 4500 tracks to play with or just let the software do it while we eat a big mac sandwich and shop on the internet.
sometimes i think its almost too much techno crap or "non-human" like?
thats when i get out the old acoustic and sing thru my nose..yooouuurrrr chhheaaaattiiinn heeearrrttt... damn i'm burnt.
anyway they were forced to pre-plan and sqeeze it in.. as i understand it.
yeah, nowadays we can mix it at our convienience with 4500 tracks to play with or just let the software do it while we eat a big mac sandwich and shop on the internet.
sometimes i think its almost too much techno crap or "non-human" like?
thats when i get out the old acoustic and sing thru my nose..yooouuurrrr chhheaaaattiiinn heeearrrttt... damn i'm burnt.
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EVT
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CoolCat
Well-known member
thanks thats the article i saw too.
they had to really work harder in the old days. i think now the challenges are different, getting the MP3's playbacks to sound as good as possible, competition is near "sonic bliss" so this raises the levels.
George Martin/Abbey Road made a bleep in a book stating he often would record the instruments..x,y,x, but then the vocals would be placed seperately to allow easier equing. 4-6 vocals on one track at times!
Personally, i have found favor with my SM7 mic. I went thru a few.
this mic is great for poorly acoustic-treated rooms (up close), has a nice capture of vocal range. Some say you can eat it...it doesn't distort easily and can take many,many punches.
(LosLonely Boys used it on Heaven, Shrl Crow used it doing vocal takes in the mixing room!..and others have used this mic... so it's got that approval stamp too. blah,blah,blah..)
Its very weak volume wise, not like a 48v LDC. Its a LDC without 48V.
Its an upclose mic so the room is less of a player...like Nearfield Monitoring.
we have many,many tracks these days... i saw one software pack at the store said "UNLIMITED TRACKS"...
so like Fraserhutch stated, we can do all the effect later, on a seperate track.... we can accomplish the same thing with technology.... hell from what iread you don't even have to sing well, just use a auto correct pitch software on track 442.
they had to really work harder in the old days. i think now the challenges are different, getting the MP3's playbacks to sound as good as possible, competition is near "sonic bliss" so this raises the levels.
George Martin/Abbey Road made a bleep in a book stating he often would record the instruments..x,y,x, but then the vocals would be placed seperately to allow easier equing. 4-6 vocals on one track at times!
Personally, i have found favor with my SM7 mic. I went thru a few.
this mic is great for poorly acoustic-treated rooms (up close), has a nice capture of vocal range. Some say you can eat it...it doesn't distort easily and can take many,many punches.
(LosLonely Boys used it on Heaven, Shrl Crow used it doing vocal takes in the mixing room!..and others have used this mic... so it's got that approval stamp too. blah,blah,blah..)
Its very weak volume wise, not like a 48v LDC. Its a LDC without 48V.
Its an upclose mic so the room is less of a player...like Nearfield Monitoring.
we have many,many tracks these days... i saw one software pack at the store said "UNLIMITED TRACKS"...
so like Fraserhutch stated, we can do all the effect later, on a seperate track.... we can accomplish the same thing with technology.... hell from what iread you don't even have to sing well, just use a auto correct pitch software on track 442.
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Dani Pace
New member
Record the vocal track(s) in mono, then clone them. Use the clone to add efx, reverb,echos on the end word of a line or whatever then with a little blending and crossfadeing you come up with a cool sounding vocal track, not exactly stereo but by panning the efx track you get a stereo effect.
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