If you want to do good sounding vocals, then you're gonna need a decent mic

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Erm... What mic would be good? If we think now low budjet... So some names?

You also need a half decent mic preamp to get it good

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Originally posted by attacc You also need a half decent mic preamp to get it good

whats a mic preamp?

do you guys think its possible to record it here in my room?

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Erm... What mic would be good? If we think now low budjet... So some names?

yup, some names pls

"There are quite a few all-in-one designed pc-audio solutions, featuring external stand alone or rack-able unit's with multi In's and Out's and Microphone input's too even with phantom powering....

well, i'd advise to forget a soundcard mic amp, even tho my hoontech rack has one, and it works & sounds ok, i'd say it's preferable get a joe-meek Mic-pre/compressor, (or the cheap hootersound made by joemeek) or similar models by other manufacturers, and run a line out from that to a line level soundcard input - in that case of buying say an Ardvark or Maudio they do have multiple in's... so first as yourself... do you really need multiple in's on your PC audio card/device?...

If you are ONLY recording from the one mic, (or mebbe also a guitar-head line-out etc) & layering your record-takes of different parts over the pc-audio/s/w-synth backing, then you don't need a multi i/o card at all... because you only need a stereo monitor out in that case & stereo In to acceopt the pre-amp Output...

But, if you've got outboard - mebbe a synth, sampler & drumbox say - & you want to route that into your s/w mix in realtime then yes mebbe get a multi-input device you might think, it can in certain combinations with s/w allow input monitoring so you can belnd your outboard into the pc s/w mix and hear it all together via the PC output... but is it the best way?...." - Kilo @ dancetech.com

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I don't think there's any wrong with recording the vocals in your own room.. There's are some isolation stuff that you can buy to transform your bedroom or bathroom to a vocal booth

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it gives you phantom power (which a lot of mics need), EQ and compression. It delivers to your vocals quality

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Well... I only have Sony's F-V220 mic. It was really cheap and it do sounds quite ok (I need it only for vocals)... But sometimes some sounds (like s or something like that) sounds a bit bad, distorted - if U know what I mean

I use it with Cool Edit. Record those vocals in to wav. and then use them in Reason. That usually works just fine Maybe it's not professional but I'm just a beginner...

Hey, problems with the s's are very common. You can hear it on a lot of pro tracks too. Try to run it through a de-esser plugin, it helps

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So I should get a de-esser pluging? Can I use it with Cool Edit?

Is it possible that Cool Edit pro has a de-esser? I think logic audio platinum 5 has got a de-esser.

I did a quick search on k-v-r and found out there's a pack of plugins called db plugins by Dave Brown who's got multiband compressor and de-esser. They are supposed to be cheap too

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No... There's no de-esser in CoolEdfit, at least I can't find it