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live recording vs. multitracking for acoustic guitar and vocal?

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Submitted by anonymous on

Hi, I'm a singer/songwriter recording my first demo at college and I'm getting some conflicting advice. I'm only recording acoustic guitar and vocal and wondered how best to do this, live with no headphone mix, to a click track and add drums later or should I still overdub? any advice welcome and much needed, cheers, TC

Budget vocal tracking compressor

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Submitted by dickiefunk on

Hi,



I'm currently looking at improving my vocal tracking and have been busy sorting out a vocal booth and trying out various mics.

I have been experimenting with using the compressor on my Eureka and have quite liked it on certain vocalists and tracks. To my ears the Eurekas compressor sounds pretty clean and transparent and extremeley quiet.

Vocal Tracking Levels.

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Submitted by anonymous on

I am wondering about the RMS and peaks levels I should be hitting when recording vocals. I've seemed to gather from different sources that I should be anywhere around -24 to -18 RMS with peaks no more than -10. I would just like to hear other people confirm or reject this idea. Once the track has been recorded into Logic, I can make any other level changes ITB.

Vocal Tracking: Compressor vs. Compressor

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Submitted by ThirdBird on

What is the logistical difference between side-chaining a compressor through an equalizer to compress only certain frequencies versus just applying a multiband compressor affecting the same frequencies? (for instance when tracking vocals)



This question arose from Dallan Beck's book The Musician's Guide to Recording Vocals