wet or dry recording on vocals

[countiec]

Hi all,

I was wondering, if have a very dead room where I record vocals. In my headphone mix I add reverb. I use the direct outs to record in my DAW. I don't have reverb in my recorded sound.

Would you recommend to add little reverb in the recording sound?

regards
Steve

 

[RAMI]

No. Why be stuck with something you might want to change later (and won't be able to)?

Do whatever you need to do to make yourself comfortable when you sing, like adding reverb, etc....But don't record the effects. You can always do that after.

 

[Dogman]

No. Why be stuck with something you might want to change later (and won't be able to)?

Do whatever you need to do to make yourself comfortable when you sing, like adding reverb, etc....But don't record the effects. You can always do that after.

What he said....You'd hate to render a good take unusable by applying effects that don't sound the way you want.

 

[MadAudio]

Do whatever you need to do to make yourself comfortable when you sing, like adding reverb...

That's why adding reverb to the headphone mix is known as "comfort 'verb!"

 

[SonicAlbert]

Record the vocals dry and add the effects later. You don't want to lock yourself into a reverb from the start. Reverb is one of those things that you will want to play with a lot when mixing.

 

[Yonce N Mild]

how about recording both? I use a tc helicon vocal create pedal for most of my vocal effects. So I record a wet and a dry track. That way I can still adjust the amount of reverb in the mix. I can also just go with the dry track if I decide I don't like the effect I used.

 

[cusebassman]

how about recording both? I use a tc helicon vocal create pedal for most of my vocal effects. So I record a wet and a dry track. That way I can still adjust the amount of reverb in the mix. I can also just go with the dry track if I decide I don't like the effect I used.

If you separate them out and record both, and mix to taste later, that is more than adequate. I'll say what 5 other people have now said though - record parts dry and edit effects later so you don't wind up with something you don't want

 

[Robert D]

Shaken, not stirred, and yes....always dry.

 

[countiec]

well

guess I'll record dry

thanks for the input

 

[danny.guitar]

Another good suggestion is to record it dry...

And add the effects later. You know, so you're not stuck with them.

 

[fraserhutch]

how about recording both? I use a tc helicon vocal create pedal for most of my vocal effects. So I record a wet and a dry track. That way I can still adjust the amount of reverb in the mix. I can also just go with the dry track if I decide I don't like the effect I used.

Is better, but not what I would do. You've still locked yourself into a particular verb in your wet track - only difference being that you have a little control over the wet/dry raiot, and not a great control of it at that (your wet part is still largely vocal rather than straight verb) . The idea of re-amping is to apply the effect at a later time when you have a better idea of what all is in your mix.