Re: [LAU] processing lead vocals

On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 10:03 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote:

 Hi,

 I read a lot of threads where people are looking for some tricks and
hints about recording various things, and in my experience, if you hang
a good mic, in a good spot, and go through good gear, you're gonna get a
decent sound. There are no tricks involved.

 Unfortunately this is experiential, too, so you just need to do it a
lot. :-)

 Rich...

> I do (and did over the years) quite some recording with
> vocals. I know a
> few tricks when it comes to processing lead vocals, but
> sometimes I feel
> I'm doing the same thing over and over. So obviously I'm
> looking for
> other directions and therefore I'll save my own approaches for
> later in
> this thread...
>
> My question is: how do *you guys* work with processing on lead
> vocals,
> mostly in pop/rock setting? We all learn the most the more
> precise this
> discussion gets, so if you'd share sound examples and
> screenshots of DSP
> chains that'd be great.
>
> Note: I'm not looking for that golden setting or trying to
> squeeze your
> golden eggs out of you. I'm just trying to learn, and
> hopefully this can
> be a fruitful experience for all of us :-)
>
> --
> Atte
>
> I usually do process vocals depending on the mic and the mixing
> console preamps.
>
> Assuming a Mackie mixing desk:
> If I can use (ie. borrow from friends) a condenser one then a little
> compression (SC) + multiband eq (to clarify, usually <=3db around
> 12Kh) and a nylon stocking to remove unwanted "b" "p" is enough.
>
> When I use the sm58, in addition to the above I prefer to pass the
> track into Jamin (I am a fan of this app ;-) ) and work with
> compression bandwidths.
>
>
> Sometimes I double vocal track, shift the duplicated one by 1-2ms and
> boost freq 2Kh below the main one (ie. if I boost the first at ~10Kh,
> the second will be at ~8Kh).
>
> -r
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