Hi mate, I record my own vocals a lot, and what I’ve personally found is that with all the sound checking in the world, I automatically sing louder when I’m actually recording, I think it has something to do with the "this is now live" psychology.
Anyways, like Scott said, I’d check yourself on the loud bit, and then take a little off to account for that loudness. Another thing I’ve done to incorporate a vocal warm up, is set a hotspot on the metre and set VO to watch it, then just sung crap… I tend to just sing random words, usually directed at my dog, or the pics, or the weather, or whatever my brain spews out. Incorporate high and low notes, and that makes me feel nice and loose, while giving me a feel for what the metres will say with any given range. Do it enough, and you don’t really need to check metres - I don’t bother any more, I just set my gain to what I’ve found to be the optimum for my voice and microphone style and leave it - it rarely goes wrong. HTH, and sorry for the ramble. Take care, Chris Norman > On 26 Mar 2015, at 19:24, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > This might seem to most of you like a very very obvious question, and yeah, I > know ultimately at the end of the day, probably what it's gonna boil down to > is, "Just listen and use your ears," but I have a song I'm going to be > recording. It really doesn't have much dynamic volume changes in the lead > vocal. Don't get me wrong, there is! a climax to the song, but pretty much, > for what it's worth, the song stays fairly close to the same level throughout. > > If it helps, so you all can listen to it on Youtube or something, the song is > called Mercy Said No, and it's by Greg Long. > > Anyway, I don't want to clip during my recording, and obviously I want enough > wiggleroom before applying any compression, or the like to that vocal track. > I want to come in probably notch peek around -12DB, no more than -10 pushing > it. That said, seeing this song really doesn't seem to change much in > dynamics, again, it does, but not very much... what is therefore probably the > best way of doing a sound check? I know how to look at my meters, and yes, I > do have them set to infinity, so that they hold at the peek until I reset > them, but what I'm saying more is, how do I determine what part of the song > is probably the loudest, as I hear that is really when setting mike levels > where you want to aim. I hear you really want to sing the part of the song > where you feel you're going to spike the highest level. But if the song > doesn't have much dynamics, then do I just shoot over all for -12, or is > there a little trick to this. What my fear is, is that I'm gonna not strain, > but seeing the chorus does get ever so slightly high for me, I'm gonna have > to push a bit. Also to get the emotion I need, I'll have to push. Again, I > did, not! say strain, big difference! It's perfectly within my range. > Anyway, my fear is that even with a compressor going, which I really don't > wanna apply until the vocal track is actually totally done, I'm going to hit > some of the higher notes a little too hard, and therefore spike to the point > of clipping, and that's what I'm desperetly trying to avoid. > > Is there a sure! fire way to make double dawg sure? I don't clip, or is it > gonna be best really in this situation to just really really use my ears and > pay very close attention. > > Chris. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
