Extreme vocals - controlling breath when recording

[inertia]

Can anyone give me tips on the breath sound that is being record for extreme black metal vocals?

Is it something the vocalist needs to control better or should I use an expander to reduce the volume of the breath sound between lines?

 

[KHE]

automation. lower the level of the breaths pre-processing (clip-gain etc). if the breaths are still disturbing, lower them even more with normal volume-automation. takes probably 5-10mins per song, imho not worth struggling around with an automatic process (expander, de-breather etc). sometimes clearly audible breaths are needed for the dynamic/impact of a vocal-line, no plugin can make this decision for you. similar process for sibilant- and plosive noises.

unless the vocalist have a really bad tecnique, i would not advise him to watch his breaths, because mostly the rest of the performance will suffer.

edit: this thread needs to be movet to the FHO section of the forum

 

[rapucore]

unless the vocalist have a really bad tecnique, i would not advise him to watch his breaths, because mostly the rest of the performance will suffer.

+1

When tracking experienced vocalists, you could tell them to lean back a little when breathing before/during a line.

 

[Nikolas Quemtri]

I'd rather prefer cutting / automating the breath sounds manually through the vocal lane (depending on your purposes), than giving this work to a gate/expander due to strange artifacts which may be produced in the output.

 

[inertia]

Thanks for the comments! I will stick to manually lowering the volume myself, since that technique has worked just fine.