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Recording in the control room
From the course: Audio Recording Techniques
Recording in the control room
While it seems like recording blasphemy, many vocalists hate headphones, and would much rather sing in the control room with a handheld stage mic like the Shure SM58. This might not win you any high fidelity awards for vocal sound, but a great performance will trump audio quality any day. Let's look at how it's done. Most stage mics, while certainly not as hi-fi is a multi-thousand dollar vintage Neumann, sound better than you think when routed through a high-quality microphone preamp and certainly good enough for just about any recording purpose. And advantage of recording with the stage mic in the control room or in front of your speakers is that it has a much higher immunity to feedback than a high-quality condenser mic. So you can have the control room under level of a little higher. Make sure that the vocalist is facing the monitors for the best rejection. (music playing) Most studio mics don't work well for handheld use. That's because of their handing noise and the fact that…
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- Ch_02_Microphones_PT_Sessions.zip
- Ch_02_Microphones_Raw_WAVs.zip
- Ch_03_Preamps_PT_Sessions.zip
- Ch_03_Preamps_Raw_WAVs.zip
- Ch_04_Microphone_Placement_PT_Sessions.zip
- Ch_04_Microphone_Placement_Raw_WAVs.zip
- Ch_05_Drums_PT_Sessions.zip
- Ch_05_Drums_Raw_WAVs.zip
- Ch_06_Guitar_PT_Sessions.zip
- Ch_06_Guitar_Raw_WAVs.zip
- Ch_07_Bass_PT_Sessions.zip
- Ch_07_Bass_Raw_WAVs.zip
- Ch_08_Vocals_PT_Sessions.zip
- Ch_08_Vocals_Raw_WAVs.zip
- Ch_09_Piano_PT_Sessions.zip
- Ch_09_Piano_Raw_WAVs.zip
- Ch_10_Horns_PT_Sessions.zip
- Ch_10_Horns_Raw_WAVs.zip
- Ch_11_Strings_PT_Sessions.zip
- Ch_11_Strings_Raw_WAVs.zip
- Ch_12_Percussion_PT_Sessions.zip
- Ch_12_Percussion_Raw_WAVs.zip
- Ch_14_Stereo_Techniques_PT_Sessions.zip
- Ch_14_Stereo_Techniques_Raw_WAVs.zip
- Ch_15_Recording_The_Session_PT_Sessions.zip
- Ch_15_Recording_The_Session_Raw_WAVs.zip
- Ch_16_Simply_Falling_PT_Mix_Session.zip
- Ch_16_Simply_Falling_Raw_WAVs.zip
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Finding the right placement in the room for vocals53s
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Recording a scratch vocal1m 24s
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Exploring vocal mic placement3m 2s
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Using a limiter on vocals2m 7s
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Recording in the control room1m 35s
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Setting up the vocal headphone mix2m 26s
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Doubling the vocal2m 52s
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Getting the best from a singer1m 16s
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Exploring background vocal mic placement2m 53s
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Layering background vocals1m 5s
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Recording the lead vocal part1m 14s
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