Fire In The Hole

[Farrell Jackson]

I would be interested, like Ted to know a bit more about what you did in Audacity on the vocals... I use Audacity alot... this is great.

Here you go Stephan and Ted. This is what I did on Audacity with the vocal settings. Note: When I sing at this intensity and without any compression during recording, the vocal levels can be all over the place. Which is what happened.

1. I manually highlighted and leveled any out-lying vocal lines. It was just a few lines where the volume was noticeably different. I increased or decreased them by one or two DBs at the most.
2. I added a slight amount of reverb set at 50. No pre delay and room size at 28. Wet gain -4 and dry gain 0. (Note: once it's compressed and limited it thickens my vocal and the reverb becomes less audible)
3. Compression - Threshold at -8 DB. Noise floor at -40 DB. Ratio 2:1. Attack at .10 secs. Release at 1 sec. Check box makeup gain for 0 after compression and check box to compress based on peaks.
4. Limiter - Set for Soft Limit. In and out gain set to 0. Limit the entire vocal track to -300. Hold set at 10ms. No make up gain. Then manually mix the volume level so it sets properly with the backing track. That's it in a nut shell. This may not be right for your vocals but it's a good place to start tweaking. Hope that helps.

Farrell

 

[StephenM]

I would be interested, like Ted to know a bit more about what you did in Audacity on the vocals... I use Audacity alot... this is great.

Here you go Stephan and Ted. This is what I did on Audacity with the vocal settings. Note: When I sing at this intensity and without any compression during recording, the vocal levels can be all over the place. Which is what happened.

1. I manually highlighted and leveled any out-lying vocal lines. It was just a few lines where the volume was noticeably different. I increased or decreased them by one or two DBs at the most.
2. I added a slight amount of reverb set at 50. No pre delay and room size at 28. Wet gain -4 and dry gain 0. (Note: once it's compressed and limited it thickens my vocal and the reverb becomes less audible)
3. Compression - Threshold at -8 DB. Noise floor at -40 DB. Ratio 2:1. Attack at .10 secs. Release at 1 sec. Check box makeup gain for 0 after compression and check box to compress based on peaks.
4. Limiter - Set for Soft Limit. In and out gain set to 0. Limit the entire vocal track to -300. Hold set at 10ms. No make up gain. Then manually mix the volume level so it sets properly with the backing track. That's it in a nut shell. This may not be right for your vocals but it's a good place to start tweaking. Hope that helps.

Farrell

 

yeah you did miracles with that!

[thetworegs]

This is a beauty Farrell great vocal loving that guitar really gets the oohyeahs going

[BerryPatch]

Awesome riffage here Farrell! Chunky guitars, great vocals. Like AC/DC mixed in with some cool 70s Power Pop. 

[StephenM]

I think you did miracles with the vocals sounds... clear and clean... but I think it is pretty much all you... kind of like people who look great with no makeup...
this band rawks (to quote TC Elliott and Ron Bowes)....
great message in the lyrics and the song is smoking...

[Gary Carciello]

This sounds really good! Top class 70s'classic rock song. Excellent riffs. Farrell's vocals sound amazingly good!!!
I get good feelin about this.

Gary