Hello guys,

Sweetwater’s Lynn Fuston and Mark Hornsby with the help of Millennia HV-3R mic preamps, a few assistants and two studio vocalists, evaluated 50 vocal mics at their Russ Berger-designed Studio A.

Thought this was pretty cool, some of the more experienced will likely already do a lot of this, but around @14:00 he discusses phase relationships, as pertaining to vocals. Something I never considered was what he referred to as ‘acoustic phase’ on the vocal. Cool stuff. Good little shootout after that. My fave was the c-12. Yours?

https://www.sweetwater.com/feature/vocal-mic-shootout/

Once again IMO the cheaper mics hang quite well with the pricey ones, which go all the way up to $9,000.

So... I have a LV track for a new song I'm working on...
The song is fresh, not beaten to death yet.
My Pitch is fine. My Phrasing is fine. The Sonics of the recording are also very nice.

And I hate it. I despise it. It sounds awful.

Here's a song I've always liked; I think it's a well-written song to begin with, but I'm also intrigued by the mix.
The vocal is very forward in the mix, and with audible compression, and normally, I don't care for "that" sound, but on this track, it really works.

I record singer-songwriter stuff (soft rock that strays into easy listening) using an AT4040 (vocal) into a Clarett pre/interface & Logic Pro X. I'm in a treated room that sounds pretty good ( I did measurements in the dihedral/trihedral corners when building bass traps & also eliminated comb with site build absorbers).

Hey everyone,

Here is the track. It's hip hop...but it's radio edited. It's story song, not just "blah blah blah." Many of you have heard it already, in a less final mix.

It's not final now...I need a few more fresh listens. But if you hear something in the track that is off or could be better, I'm all ears. The hook is not added yet.

Hi,
How to make a vocal's Hi-Mid to High frequency smooth and sweet during the process ?