Vocal recording tips and tricks

Hi again!

Today we gonna discuss vox recording.
There are lot of ways and techniques to record vocals. But here I'm gonna give you some advices for recording at all.

1) Think about genre. Do you prefer aggressive singing or yells? If you do then you should use dynamic microphone (firstly for home recording, there are lot of possibilities in studio). It's very hard to overloud this type of microphone. If you want to sing calm and intimate songs then it's better to use condenser microphone because it catches all nuances of your voice. But this type of microphones needs phantom power (+48 V) Take care about it.
2) Distance. There are two important rules at all:

• 1. If you want your vox to stay close to listener in your mix then sing closer to microphone. But try to avoid loud "p" and "sss" sounds.
• 2. If you want to make "wide vox" feeling thут try to stay a bit further from your mic (15-35 cm, individually). And sing loud :)
• 3. Plan the volume of your vocal passages. Stay close when you sing quietly and lean back when you want to shout. Don't let listener be badly amused :)

3) Effects. Do not apply any effects before recorder in your vocal chain. You could do it after recording. Your mixing will be much flexible if your vocals are pure dry :)

Wish you success. You may put links to your recordings below :)

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