[LAU] processing lead vocals

[Ricardus Vincente]

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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