Beginner Recording Vocals Help

First of all, read the manual carefully. I haven't seen LE's manual, so I don't know if it's good or not, but anyway..

You don't mention whether you already have been able to record with your mic. At the top of the page there's a thread about your mic brand.

Of course  you can record the vocals without hearing the backing tracks, but then the vocals are out of sync and very likely off key as well. and it's not a simple job to fix it. I'd say you can't do without headphones. Monitoring vocals through speakers doesn't (usually) work because of the feedback.

When I go into Sonar LE do I need to select a certain type of track list or do I just simply need to hit record? Sorry if it's a silly question but I'm not too sure how I can achieve the best vocal quality possible. Also, is there a way I can record the vocals without hearing the backing track as I am not using headphones.

You need to select a mono input for the track. If you dont want to hear the backing track, just mute it in sonar. and quality of the vocals is dependent on your pre-amps and your performance and the room your in and the mic your using. If your mic is a usb mic. I wouldnt exspect too much from it. If its not a usb mic, then your ok
Cj

Hi Stellina,

If one is singing into the mic, and the accomp track is playing and heard in speakers (not using earphones), one can not avoid picking up some sound from the speakers.

So, you'd need headphones. If not, try lower speakers volume, and sing and cover the mic by being close to the mic.

But with headphones, you can get total voice on one track separate, as explained above, and there are other ways, but they would depend on your sound card, or card interface.

One simple way (using headphones): the backing track is already recorded in an audio track. It is meant to only play. You hear it from the headphone jacks. You plug your mic in the mic port, for a normal mic, not for usb mics, though. Set the input of a second audio track as mic and enable that track for recording. So second track only records from mic while you can hear the backing track. You might need to push the "Echo" button of the Mic track..That's colored green, and is on the right side of the [R] record button, and looks like this [.>>], so as to hear also your voice from the earphones, along with the track.

I really think in your question you are not really asking about singing without hearing the accomp track, though. You kind of have to hear it, so to sing along, right? So you'd have to use headphones, if what you mean is to keep the voice separate, and not feed from speakers into mic, seems to me.

Good luck.