JD1813 appreciate the kind words...
details of vocal 'processing' well, it's very straightforward and old fashioned, in terms of production and tracking.
i've got 3 vocal mics i use at different times, a AT4033, a ADK Hamburg, a Shure SM57.
now i have a Shure KSM44 which i use on ALL vocals, but i did not have that when i did this recording. the lead was the AT4033, the backups were all the ADK Hamburg.
my modest rig:
i have a nice tube mic pre, a A Designs Audio MP-1, that takes the input from the mic.
i run out of it, into the front of a small DBX compressor they no longer make, called a MC-6.
it's design is based on the DBX 160, a rack mount unit i used to use a long time ago...
i particularly like the way this unit colors my voice, so i use it always.
i can't tell you how i set it, because it varies from song to song.
i adjust every parameter by ear, til i get what i want.
then the signal comes out of the MC-6 and either heads directly to my Maudio Audiophile 192 card, using IT's convertors, or i use a ART DPS convertor section, and go into the sound card via SPDIF (digital)
and that's it.
once it's in Sonar, i may put a software compressor on it, or eq it a bit, or add some delay, rarely reverb, and that's it with the processing.
more times than not, i'll double track my lead vocals, and if i'm feeling REALLY work-a-holicky, i'll double track all my backups too!
double tracking is really hard, takes a lot of concentration and really hard listening, and a good bit of punch-in on the 2nd part!!
LOL
i'll create a part, more or less on the fly, and get a performance i really like, then i have to go back, learn that performance, memorize it, and sing it all over again!! matching the words, annunciations, emphasis, sometimes DE-emphasis, and then i'll blend that track in underneath the original.
so really, i don't do hardly any vocal processing.
it's really just capturing performances the old fashioned way.
same way i always worked with tape, only, now the tape is a waveform on a harddrive.