New to recording/ need help setting up voicemaster pro mic preamp for vocals,

There is no "right" way to use all these tools.  They depend upon the instrument or voice and the sound that you eventually develop.  My best advise is to turn everything off.  Starts with the preamp first and use it.  Find a good balance between your singing voice, the preamp w/o filter and the TC to get a nice, clean and strong sound.  Once you have that turn on the HPF and raise it up until it affects the sound of your voice - then back it off.  Voila!  You've reduced the possibilites of rumble and subsonics grabbing valuable headroom.

Then move on the the comp.  Set the release to auto (usually a safe choice) and raise the threshold.  You'll see the comp work on the meter and hopefully hear it.  When you do hear it, muck around w/ the buttons and try to hear how they effect things.  If you find something you like, keep it that way.  Just like the HPF, back off hearing the effect or until it becomes subtle and you miss it, not hear it.

W/ EQ, it is the same.  Hit some extreme settings so you can hear what it is doing.  Then just turn the thing off until you get a better handle on how it works.

I could go on, but it is just a matter of messing w/ the controls and reading the manual.  Stay away from the harmonic stuff (tube etc).

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