Recording Vocals

Interesting stuff.... or so it looks... I don't have time right now to check it out.... seems to present the info with a sense of humor attached as well....

I'm all for learning as much as possible about recording...however, many people read all this stuff about mics, compressors, gates, limiters, EQ, and get totally confused or worse...try to incorporate ALL these things into their newest project.... and end up with a big mess. I'm not saying don't try..... because by all means...do try.... but try it one thing at a time. Nothing confuses worse than adding three or four new things at the same time and then trying to figure out which one (or ones) are screwing up the mix.

As you add... add one thing at a time.... it must imporve the mix.... even if only slightly.... if not..take it out.

In addition, when using stuff like compressors and limiters, ... the change from before to after should generally be so little as to not really notice a difference in the overall sound. If you can hear a difference after adding those 2...you've probably gone to far with them. (not always...but generally)

There is alot of stuff to learn about just recording Vox.... so dig in and learn it.

My goal in recording vox is to have a single vox track...no doubling... and have it sound good dry.

Wait....wait...

Pay no attention to what Herb said. Push all of the buttons, open up more effects, three compressors in a row and stuff, then come in to the forum and tell us all the crazy things the computer did on its way to the blue screen of death...

As you may have guessed, a slow day at work, so I'm a little bored....

Later
Albert

...and that you all work for CAKEWALK...got it!

ORIGINAL: Robomusic

Don't forget to toss in that you are using virtual instruments, but no midi!

Even "I" knew that one! See, I treat you all nicely (at least I try to...I'm might whine or vent periodically, but I think I do it nicely; well maybe not to myself, but to others) and I'm learning!!!

I do not mind if someone gets a bit wound up, but at least answer the questions and do not insult folks.

But you nuttster are one of us here at MCVille!

If you are very clever and really adept at understanding the subtle changes and nuances in the atmospheric and latitudinal biospheres of musical interludes i would say about 3. 0968 minutes.

SHS7 has some bugs. it was not thoroughly beta tested, IMO. in fact the product manager pretty much told us on the SHS forum that it was NOT beta tested by any of the SHS6 users because they did not receive responses back from those they offered beta testing to (even tho several of them said specifically they responded more than one way!). She said that it was tested by FOUR Sonar users and NO native SHS users.

there are no reported bugs which would stop one from using the software to record (to my knowledge). there's one major bug reported which has a workaround: when inserting a softsynth you can't choose multiple outputs or it will crash the audio engine. No one has yet confirmed taht the new GUI doesn't allow you to resize the tracks below a certain rather largish size (see http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/HomeStudio/English/overview.htm ). that's not a bug, but an annoyance and rather "cheapens" the feel of SHS, IMO.

they are supposed to be working on a revision, but no one has said when there might be an expected date for release.