How do you guys deal with this? I'm tracking our vocalist and he has about 3 different velocities of "types" of vocals. His lowest "gutteral" is the quietest, and his highs are much louder.
Do you normally track each of these types of vocals separately, trying to match gain on the preamp? I slapped a compressor on and hit the vox pretty hard and it smoothed things out a lot, but his highs still want to jump up a few db over the lows. I'm going to end up tracking his highs separate, but I'm more concerned about the lows and "lower-lows" at this point....
Should I go phrase-by-phrase and just try to get the best performance of each line or 2? I tracked about 4 takes of full performances for a song, then went through and edited out all the bad stuff, then pulled my hair out picking through the best phrases of each 4 takes. What a tedious process!!! This is only my second time tracking vocals for "real".....
Do you normally track each of these types of vocals separately, trying to match gain on the preamp? I slapped a compressor on and hit the vox pretty hard and it smoothed things out a lot, but his highs still want to jump up a few db over the lows. I'm going to end up tracking his highs separate, but I'm more concerned about the lows and "lower-lows" at this point....
Should I go phrase-by-phrase and just try to get the best performance of each line or 2? I tracked about 4 takes of full performances for a song, then went through and edited out all the bad stuff, then pulled my hair out picking through the best phrases of each 4 takes. What a tedious process!!! This is only my second time tracking vocals for "real".....