voice/mic Question

[psychmusic]

I have been using the built in mic on the micro-br for some singing. I am by no means a singer so I need some guidance. Are there any tricks on the BR to make your voice seem better other than having someone else sing. It comes acrross as thin..I would like to thicken it up a bit. Any feedback would be great. Thanks

[hooper]

One thing you can do to help thicken up a thin vocal is to adjust EQ and boost around 180-200hz.

[Oldrottenhead]

try doubletracking your vocal, by that i mean singing the same part twice and recording to different tracks, trying to get each vocal as exact as poss, but the slight differences give/add a fullness to the sound, tho sometimes can take away the emotion, but expirement with it also with the panning, sometimes panning both vox centre works other times panning the seperate vox left and right works.

[jkevinwolfe]

There are a lot of options to play with:

Work the mic closely. You probably want to be about 6 inches away for normal singing and a foot away for raucous rockin'.

Adding a little delay with the Feedback level on zero can give some beef to your voice. A 20 ms delay works well for guitar. I would start there and play with the Effect level and Duration level to see if you can find something that makes your voice thick, yet still sound natural.

For many voices, there is a frequency around 1000 hz that gives more presence when boosted.

If you set the Compressor Sustain level to about 20, this might improve volume differences in a weak voice.

The Enhancer effect may also help since this adds some presence.

[hooper]

try doubletracking your vocal, by that i mean singing the same part twice and recording to different tracks

Double-tracking is an excellent suggestion, and fun to do! 

[SteveG]

Try recording the vocal dry, then bounce it using the vocal effects to add a bit of delay, eq and compression. Easier to hear the differences that way. Once you find what works make a prestet.