I've heard of a lot of people doing this...
what are the benefits

I've been studying several RnB and Pop mixes. I've noticed the separation that they get with the mixes among the backgrounds, leads and the instruments. It seems that the backgrounds are often being panned hard left and right with the leads, kick, bass and snare center. The instruments such as keys and guitars seem to be at 3,4,8 and 9 o'clock.

Hey i'm realy a newbie at recording. I'm hard working guitarist vocalist etc. So I bought Cakewalk homestudio 2002. Now I can take my time recording, and realy get the song's the way want.The prob is i have no idea how to make the vocals fit in.They stand so out, i'm ashamed to play my songs to anyone. And then people think that's like my quaility.

As a general rule, when adding a vocal track to an existing musical accompanyment track prior to mixdown, would one slightly adjust the volume levels on the musical track for balance, or adjust the volume levels on the vocal track for balance? Methinks the musical track should be subtly adjusted for balance whilst leaving the vocal track alone for the most part.

I get a lot of people asking me about vocal processesors for vocal effects, pitch correctors, and harmonizers. The problem is i'm not familiar with many of them. Any idea what's out there that would fill the role of one, two, or even all three of those in one unit?

I have been doing an acoustic project. Good player but vocally challenged. I have reverbed and autotuned it and now it is in tune but the voice is not organic anymore. Any better ideas? I do not think retakes will get a better vocal. I hear a bit of a flange sound and he will too. I have doubled the voice and delayed the dub by 7-10 ms. sorta surreal now against those rocksteady D28s.

Is is possibe to record these two sources (stereo keyboard sequence/vocals via condenser mic) AT THE SAME TIME direct into my duplex sound card?

Equipment available:
*Dell p4 2.4g
*Turtle Beach Santa Cruz soundcard (has 2 inputs...line-in and probably crap-ola mic input)
*Marshall V67 LD condenser mic
*Joemeek V3CQ
*Cool Edit Pro 1.0

I know that each particular song should determine what the vocal should sound like and where in the mix it should sit. But for the life of me i can't get the sound i want for my rock songs.

I'll explain the scenario.

I began by posting this on Stephen Pauls forum, but as it seem to be heading in this direction I thought I'd garnish some comments...

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Although I have noticed distortion in the low end as well?

Im trying to learn how to record hip hop vocals. Im new at this so can someone please help me.