This session we recorded our vocals for our track. Abigail is the singer. In any professional recording studio it is important that you make your singer comfortable. This ensures that they are relaxed therefore allowing their voice to be more fluent and precise, which leads to a good vocal recording. We recorded in the dead room creating the driest possible recording. When it comes to mixing the track this will allows us to edit the vocals to how we want. Whether it having loads of re verb or EQ. I was chosen to set the microphones up, using B5 to B7 inputs in pro tools. We decided that we would test out three microphones so that we could choose the right one for Abigail’s voice. The microphones were; Sure SM57, AKG 4112 and the Electro-Voice RE20. Each microphone was set to a cardioid polar pattern so it records directly at the singer. On the Electro-Voice (EV) it allows you to select a Low shelf EQ switch which rolls off the low end, so we did that. We recorded a section of vocals with all three microphones and selected which sounded better. The 57 had a lot of sibilance therefore we would of had to use a lot of EQ to get rid of that, so we decided not to use that. The 4112 was very clear but had a lot of low end and didn’t amplify the high female frequencies. So we decided not to use that one. So we were left with the EV which was the better microphone as it sounded much more fuller and richer and it had less sibilance. Abigail proved to be a very good and professional singer as we only had to run through it once which shows that she had been practising. I believe we produced a good level quality vocal recording as we selected the right microphone for the right vocal. The session went very smoothly as Abigail practised before hand.
Recording Vocals 7/11/14
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