A perfect unmastered unmixed vocal...

[TheWeedman]

Is there a place I can get one of these as reference? I would like to have an unmastered unmixed vocal, fresh from the mic with nothing done to it, and the same vocal mixed and mastered. I need a reference point for what I am trying to acheive with the sound of my mic, and the mastered mixed vocal. Im just going on what sounds good to me, and have no concept of the industry standard. I dont know what I should be trying to achieve with my vocal recording or eq'ing or anything else. If I had an audible example it might bring more clarity to my situation.

[brandondrury]

Hmm. I've always wanted to hear this on drum recordings.


What type of music are you going for?

Many times when I record a vocal, it doesn't change much at all. I almost always compress it (sometimes very hard) but that doesn't generally effect the tone much. It just smoothes out the dynamics of the singer.

Let me know and I'll post something. Are you wanting just the vocal track and nothing else or do you want a dry vocal sitting in a mix?

Brandon

[TheWeedman]

I will be recording vocals for hip hop/rap. I just want the fresh of the microphone pre-edit vocal, and then the same vocal post-edit. I want to know what kind of sound I should be looking for fresh off the mic, pre-edit, and what it should sound like after editing. I use adobe audition 1.5. I am only working with instrumentals, finished music, beats, whatever you choose to call it. I am recording vocals over finished music. I want to know what my vocals should sound like before I begin to edit, and what im sound I should be trying to achieve in editing, ie. eq, compression, etc.

[TheWeedman]

With me, my tone is fine, I just need to boost at least 4dB at 15khz to make it sound comprable to cd's I hear. This may be in part to my mic, but thru the use of extinsive eq'ing using waves plug-in, it sounds decent to me. Thats why I would like to hear un eq'd vocals on a good mic, to see if eq'ing makes it the same, or if I should upgrade my mic. Right now im using a behringer b2-pro, but it is my first ever microphone, and I have no reference.

[brandondrury]

I'll hook up here pretty soon. My entire studio is going to do some location recording so it'll have to wait a few days.

I must admit that I gave up comparing my mixes to commercial cds a while back at least while mixing. I got to upset and pissed off when my mixes weren't good enough and it seamed like no matter what I did I could never get the same sound. So I said hell with it. In other words, my stuff my not be exactly pro either. I just sort of do my thing and do what I can to get the music to be more effective.

Also, I don't have any hip hop. Will rock stuff due?

Brandon

[TheWeedman]

Im not that much concerned with the genre when listening to production. Anything will do as long as it follows what I previously said.