such as the sm57? got a friend coming in who insists on using the sm57 for recording his voice and i've never recorded vocals with it before. should i let him sing right on top of the mic with his lips touching the grill like he does at live shows? or should i try to get him to back off 6 inches or so like with condensers ? should i use a pop screen?

Im not used to live work so to speak so could do with a bit of advice.

I have recently got involved with a new band doing technical hardcore metal in which we have a vocallist whos voice can be described as nothing but brutal during his screams and angelic when singing.

Man do I need help here. I've tried to get used to using keyboards for creating drum track and I can't stand how slow and lame it is. I have excellent sounds, but the whole keyboard midi drum creation sucks to me. I am by no means a novice at programming. I earned a serious living in the 80's programming drums using Linn and MPC 60's.

Hey there. I'm currently recording songs with an AT3035 condenser and an EMU 0404 USB preamp. It's actually equipment I used to own but i'm now just borrowing it. I'm recording with the exact same computer I used to have it setup with and I never had problems in the past. The equipment works fine with the current owner but I'm hoping theres maybe just a setting I can change to fix all of this.

Hi all,

Hi guys new to the board and a bit confused but this seemed like a pretty good sub-forum to post this in. Do you guys know of any good way to remove vocals without getting very noticable effects on the instrumental track from an mp3? is it possible at all? using expert boy didn't work at all for me.

I've recorded my wife's vocals over a karaoke backing track. I am a beginner when it comes to music editing, and I'd like to know what are the steps and best practices when it comes to editing. I'm using Mixcraft 5 as my DAW, and I just installed the trial version of Auto Tune which works with Mixcraft. I have two tracks: one is the backing track, and the other one is the vocal track.

Noob question here goes,

What's good vocal software out there?

I've been obsessing about puscifer and the song 'Queen B'

how his voice is so full and rich like an instrument all on its own,

hey guys ive been reading this book on computer music and
from what ive read if this author has more then 6 vocal tracks
he does normalization to his vox @ -12db now I'm just wondering
your opions on this and i do this before a do any processing
does this seem like the right thinh to do to vocal tracks?

Alright, so most of my recording experience is via live orchestras, acoustic projects, etc.