{"id":692,"date":"2013-01-25T10:45:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T15:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mudhutstudiosonline.com\/?p=692"},"modified":"2013-01-25T10:45:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T15:45:37","slug":"recording-vocals-for-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mudhutstudiosonline.com\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"Recording Vocals for Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MACY\"<\/a>Although I have over twenty years of recording\u00a0experience, I don’t present\u00a0myself here as an expert.\u00a0 I\u00a0simply offer tricks that have worked for me over time.<\/p>\n

Almost all of the home-studio savvy musicians that end up at Mud-Hut have one of two issues; drums or vocals.\u00a0 I’ve previously\u00a0given my opinions on recording\u00a0drums<\/a>.\u00a0 So what is it that makes vocals so troublesome?\u00a0 Most of my clients describe two problems.<\/p>\n

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  1. Fluctuations in volume.\u00a0 The vocalist is too loud\u00a0in some passages and too soft in others.<\/li>\n
  2. The inability of the final performance to “sit in the mix”.\u00a0\u00a0Even with volume issues corrected, the vocal track is either underneath or on-top of the music.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Volume Fluctuations:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    Let’s assume that the vocalist has some respect for the microphone as an instrument.\u00a0 Screaming into a very sensitive, condenser\u00a0mic presents\u00a0the opposite issues that standing back from a durable, dynamic stage\u00a0mic can.\u00a0 Let’s also assume that the signal chain (microphone into pre-amp into computer interface) isn’t out of whack and there seems to be plenty of headroom with no distortion.\u00a0 These are heavy assumptions, but if you don’t have at least this much…then inconsistent volume and mix placement are not yet your worries.<\/p>\n