[richiebee]

Depending on how low a latency you can get on your system, you might try feeding the vocals through a big reverb. I'm not sure how a rocker would take this (they might think its really gay, I don't know), but I know that for most singers, sticking a ton of reverb on them makes them sound way bigger and better than they really are. That gives them confidence. At some point you have to tell them they don't really sound like that, and that releasing an album that way would totally suck, but don't tell them til they've tracked everything with a wonderfully confident voice. Thickening up the vocal sound might have the same effect.

You could try the walkman headphone thing. It really works for me. They don't bleed much, and they allow me to hear what I'm doing acoustically.

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