Hi everyone,

Some of you might remember a thread I posted a while ago about spending US$4000 on preamps. Turns out I'll only have half that money for 6 months, and I have a CD to record that must be out by December.

So, I can only buy one of the pres we discussed, and they were the Langevin Dual Vocal Combo and the Focusrite ISA428.

As a trained singer I do my best to sing at right kind of levels and have studied and practiced mic technique. I've been trying to find out more about the recording process and was suprised to be told by one engineer that the quality of the vocal compressor isn't that important. In my recording experience, engineers always seemed to save one of their best compressors for vocals.

I need to get a mic for my sutdio to record lead vocals, and maybe other applications, which is better in your opinion or by the specs

Shure ksm27?

or

AT 4040?

or is another mic "better" in this price range

Thanks in advance

I'm recording a band and I would like to add a little more "fatteness" for the vocals in order to give a more stereo spaced impression. I tried to put the vocals on 2 tracks, pan towards Left and Right each and then I tried some delay from 1 to 30 ms between the two tracks. The result was like adding a chorus effect.

hey everyone. really wanna know what you all think of this list and which mic OVERALL excels for vocals. the mic needs to be ordered by sunday.

the price of the mic needs to stay under $600, unless that good.. but i can't touch 1000 right now b/c i need to get the new pre.

this is whats on my mind,

dan made me do it

I am recording some of my songs on a friend's computer, and my vocals seem to overpower the other instruments just as I put them loud enough to be heard. The voice sounds to bassy, not clear enough. I'm not sure what it is, but it sounds as if the vocals aren't part of the song, but a loud, unpretty, Karaoke performance.

Anybody know of a db-matching plugin ? It would really make my life easier to have something that makes everything peak at the same level, as opposed to "grading on a curve" like normalization.

Ideas?

This is my first post so i wanted to say hey to everybody. Anyway here's my question:

Any suggestions as to the best way to Mix Acoustic Guitar-Bongo(1 bongo) and a single vocal track.
Panning etc. .
Thanks,