Hey guys! I'm looking for a good/great preamp to suit my vocals well. In another thread a lot of guys preferred I get a dynamic mic instead of a condenser due to the type of vocals I record; rap. I'm currently looking at the Focusrite ISA One which is about $499.99. Mics that were suggested are: Shure Beta 58A & Sennheiser e835 (plan on getting both).

I have a small room 5 X 5 feet with foam on the walls and ceiling in that room is my GT50 mic, LCD monitor and keyboard going out to pc in adjacent room. GT50 mic à ART TPS II Preamp à Yamaha GO46 ADDA Fire-Wire à Dell Optiplex GX280 2.8GHz P4 80GB HD 1GB Ram, Windows XP, Cubase Studio 4, various plugins à I monitor recordings Sennheiser HD 280 PRO Headphones.

Hello all. I've recently purchased a Tascam DP-008 to records a few songs and I purchased a Shure SM58 mic along with it. I transferred my vocal track onto my computer and loaded it onto Audacity and it sounded really bad as in lifeless, dull, and dampened.

Hey guys!

Here's my latest song:

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Hi Guys,

Hi. I'm an experienced recordist in small and project studios, but now I am recording myself.

And there is the problem. All my instruments sound great on playback. Acoustic guitars, electrics, bass, drums, tambourines, you name it, they sound great.

any tips to get a nice indie hip hop sound on vocals. (distoriton or overdrive?)

A buddy of mine is a vocalist in a touring band and he is coming over tomorrow to track a vocal demo at my place. I've got my SM58 set up with a cheapo pop filter a few inches away. I use the same mic/room placement technique as I do when I track my guitar tracks, but other than that I'm not sure what to really shoot for short of experimentation.

I play a lot of music from the death metal genre. Lots of chuggs, blast beats, and low growls. And to record vocals I've been using a Behringer XM1800S mic (cheap all-around dynamic mic) hooked up to a 30W bass amp, then miked with a Shure c606 all-around/vocal mic. And when listening back, I think it sounds pretty amazing, for a cheap home studio.