Engineering while performing vocals... How to???

Hi All,
This might be better posted in the Techniques forum but we'll try here first.
My home studio is set up in a 9' X 9' spare bedroom.  Desk, mixer, PC, etc. are at one side of the room and I use a closet on the other side of the room for a vocal booth. (I open the door, put the mic in there so its poking out of the shirts, and it really cuts out all the reflection I got when just placing the mic in the middle of the small room.) This all sounds good, but the problem I'm having is trying to run my DAW and then get over to the mic to do a take. I set myself up for lots of lead time to physically get to the mic but this process is pretty monotonous and can really kill the vibe of the vocal.

Anything short of having a buddy engineer for me, are there any suggestions you guys have for me? What do you guys do when cutting vocals alone?

Thanks
Pete

Wireless mouse and keyboard?

Use the auto punch feature.  You set the start and ending points...and in reality... that can be as long as you need... from the very beginning of the vocals in a song to the end of the song.

Since most songs with vocals have about 13 to 15 seconds of introduction music... you have that amount of time from when you hit record until you need to be at the mic, ready to sing. The recording will start when the punch in point is reached and the recording will end at the punch out point. I use the Punch in/out feature a lot.  Just set the "roll tape" point 15 seconds or so before the punch in point and life becomes easy.

I also include in every project 2 measures of silence... actually it is the count in measures... so the music doesn't even start until M3..... and then I have the intro.....and I find that works well for me.

I'm with Greg... I am recording while seated or standing within a few feet of the DAW... I don't have any sort of vocal treatment in my room....and from time to time I even hold the mic in my hand as opposed to having it on a stand. No closets, no sound deadeners, just a room with all the noise from the neighborhood, cars, and whatever else decides to make noise..... Yesterday, I waited 30 seconds for the fire trucks to go on down the road a ways before I hit record.

When doing Midi compositions, I've set up mine so that I can use the Numeric Keypad (Left hand) and Mouse ( Right hand ). I found that by doing this I could greatly improve the speed in which I edit.

The first key I map is   k -> [ Global options ] Key binding.

I set up the Numerics for commonly used mappings,

0 -> Track Properties
7 -> [views] Track view
8 -> [views] Console
9 -> [views] Synth Rack
4 -> [views] Piano Roll View
5 -> [views] Event List
6 -> [views] Staff View

up -> [Transport ] Play
down -> [Transport ] Record
home -> [Go] Beginning
End -> [Go] End
Left -> [Go] Previous Marker
Right -> [Go]  Next Marker
Alt Left -> [Go] Previous Measure
Alt Right -> [Go] Next Measure

m -> [ Insert ] Marker
l -> Loop On/Off

etc .... You'll probably just focus on the Transport properties but there are other possibilities as well.